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Reform drive launched at Ypsilanti

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21
Month
March
Year
1980
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AACHM Oral History: George Goodman

George GoodmanGeorge D. Goodman was born in 1940 and grew up in Ypsilanti. His father George worked at the Ford River Rouge plant and his mother Thelma owned and operated Goodman’s Fashion Center on Harriet Street. After graduating from Roosevelt School and Eastern Michigan University, he served as a U.S. Army officer in Germany for 5 years. Goodman is best known for being the mayor of Ypsilanti from 1972 to 1982. He was also director of the University of Michigan Opportunity Program and the Michigan Municipal League. He and his wife Judith have been married for sixty years, and they have two sons.

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Real Estate Transfers

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29
Month
October
Year
1886
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Through The Years With Luella Smith

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29
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December
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1968
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Supervisors Fete Retiring County Clerk

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9
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October
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1968
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Housing & City Officials Gather To Commemorate The Construction Of The Amos Washington Subdivision, April 1954

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1954
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Ann Arbor News, April 15, 1954
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Participating in formal ceremonies yesterday commemorating the start of construction for Ypsilanti's new Amos Washington subdivision was this group of housing and city officials. Watching as Mayor Carl J. Scheffler (kneeling) lays a foundation block are (left to right) Amos Washington, city housing director; Harry M. Steffey, assistant director of the Detroit insuring office of the Federal Housing Administration; realtor Dwight E. Hand and City Councilman John Burton. The area will include 22 single family homes laid out along a new street extending north from Harriet St. and south of Ainsworth Circle.