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"Swallow City" Covered In Holes Drilled By Cliff Swallows - Arborview Blvd At Arbana, June 1941 Photographer: Eck Stanger

"Swallow City" Covered In Holes Drilled By Cliff Swallows - Arborview Blvd At Arbana, June 1941 image
Year:
1941
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, June 7, 1941
Caption:
Swallow City, which resembles an underground air defense system and which is threatened with destruction by recent city council action to level the bank in which it is located, may be saved. Neighborhood residents have launched a move to ask the council to place a fence around the bank instead. Fear that children might be caught in a cave-in while playing in the bank prompted its proposed removal. The holes which perforate the bank are homes of hundreds of swallows. They resemble a network of underground airplane hangers where the birds take off and land at full speed.

"Swallow City" Covered In Holes Drilled By Cliff Swallows - Arborview Blvd At Arbana, June 1941 Photographer: Eck Stanger

"Swallow City" Covered In Holes Drilled By Cliff Swallows - Arborview Blvd At Arbana, June 1941 image
Year:
1941
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, July 22, 1973
Caption:
From Our Pictorial Archives. Ann Arbor 1941. It may be hard to picture this as a scene well inside the city of Ann Arbor, but it wasn't as far in when in the summer of 1941 developers were looking for good building areas for the housing boom destined to be delayed until after World War II. This area on the north side of Arborview Blvd. at the foot of Arbana (Ann Arbor's west side) was known for a time as "Swallow City" because of the flocks of cliff swallows that drilled holes as deep as three feet for their nests. Kids used to try to catch the birds by lying on the bank above and holding their caps over the holes. City Councilmen argued that it was an easy way to slip and make a quick descent to the bottom of the hill, suffering some broken bones in the process. The area now is much farther inside the city, somewhat leveled and covered with homes.

Howell Nature Center Program At Oak Trails School, March 1994 Photographer: Robert Chase

Howell Nature Center Program At Oak Trails School, March 1994 image
Year:
1994
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 18, 1994
Caption:
FEATHERY LESSON - Naturalist Kathy Frantz from the Howell Nature Center shows a Great Horned Owl to students at Oak Trails School on Warren Road north of Ypsilanti. The owl is one of a number of animals the center uses in its teaching program.