Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 9, 1962
Caption:
Ye Olde Editor Has His Say: (From February 9, 1942 caption: "John Riggs (see photo), who reached his 80th birthday last week, says it is time for him to retire. For 20 years he has operated his own barber shop on N. Fourth Ave. He was born in York township. What with his painful rheumatism he thinks he may try to find a little relief in Arizona during his twilight years.")

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, October 31, 1952
Caption:
(The following caption refers to this photo, as well as an additional old photo that accompanied it in the October 31, 1952 edition of the Ann Arbor News.) For several decades, until the present post office was first built in 1908-09, the grand, old Beal Block on the northeast corner of Ann St. and N. Main St. was rented by the government for that purpose (shown in the picture at top). From 1909 until it was torn down about 15 years ago to become the site of a store, it housed a wide variety of businesses. At the extreme left in the picture below can be seen a corner of the present post office building which has undergone frequent remodelings -- three of them since 1922. In the old days the Beal Block was much more than a post office. It was the most popular, informal social center of Ann Arbor. Daily, and more particularly on Sundays, hundreds of townspeople, faculty and students gathered to pick up their mail and pass the time of day with their friends.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 26, 1988
Caption:
Making The Rounds - Police Officer Richard A. Blake chats with Roosevelt Rowry of Rosey's Hair-Styling Den barber shop, 103 S. Fourth Ave., one of the stops on his new downtown beat. Blake and Officer Mark R. Hoornstra are the two 'foot patrol' police officers newly assigned to walk the downtown area by the Ann Arbor Police Department. Blake and Hoornstra officially start their jobs as the downtown's new 'beat police' Monday, but spent time Thursday getting to know some of the merchants and citizens on their beat.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, November 30, 1953
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WHAT CITY HALL WOULD REPLACE: This is the business block the proposed new city hall would replace if it is erected in the 100 block of E. Ann St. The welter of small stores and apartments on the second and third floors has been labeled a fire hazard by those seeking passage of the city hall proposals on April 5. Out of sight at the right is the new Courthouse, now under construction. Mayor William E. Brown, jr., is leading the move to build a city hall on this site.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, July 22, 1990
Caption:
U-M student Kenny Chism, a regular customer for two years, gets a haircut from barber J. D. Hall.