Published In:
Ann Arbor News, May 10, 1963
Caption:
PROTEST AT MICHIGAN BELL: A breakdown in the office air conditioning unit yesterday afternoon caused 17 operators on the long-distance and information switch board to walk off their jobs. A picket line was quickly formed outside the company building at 323 E. Washington St. They were back at work today.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, September 18, 1957
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FIRST PICKET LINE: This was the picket line thrown up by Westinghouse Electric union members in front of the local office of the Michigan Bell Telephone Co. on E. Washington St. at 6 a.m. today. Long distance telephone operators who honored the picket line are seen at left. A line was also formed at the E. Huron St. entrance to the office.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, April 7, 1947
Caption:
DANCE OF THE PICKETTES: Fair feminine employees of Ann Arbor's Michigan Bell Telephone Co. district office cut a buck-and-wing in the course of their march back and forth in front of the new telephone company annex being erected on E. Huron St. Both singing and dancing were resorted to by girl pickets as a means of relieving the monotony of today's picketing operations. The dancers are Virginia Suojanen and Dorothy Malt. (Story on local telephone strike is on page 14.)

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 1, 1946
Caption:
EARLY BUILDING GIVES WAY TO NEW: What was once the Ladies' Library Association building constructed in 1885, is being wrecked to clear the way for erection of a new Michigan Bell Telephone Co. office building at 324 E. Huron St. The building was used as a Boy Scout council headquarters for about 20 years after it was given by the association to the board of education.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, September 23, 1973
Caption:
That windowless Michigan Bell Telephone building didn't always occupy its E. Huron St. plot as this picture suggests. Back in the 40s, and before and after, the council office of the Boy Scouts stood there as did (at left) the Cowie residence which later was acquired and razed by The News when parking space became a necessity. Sewell Platt's Ford garage was just to the right of the Scout headquarters building which later on houses a dance academy.