DECEMBER, 1950: Installing Holiday Decorations on lighting post, North Main Street at Miller. The building at left background is unchanged today, although occupants have come and gone over the past 65 years. The Broken Egg Restaurant is there now: does anyone recall what the restaurant occupant on that corner was in 1950? (I cant make out the name on the sign, even when it is magnified.) The odd lunette on the cornice of the building at right, across Miller Avenue, may throw many Townies for a loop -- that is the oddly-shaped cornice of the Dr. Chase Steam Printing House (original construction in 1864; tripled in size in 1868). Its amazing that the cornice on that venerable landmark was still intact after 82 years, but it got torn off sometime in the fifties. In the late 1960s, the Dr. Chase building (former publishing house of the Ann Arbor Courier, a prominent 19th-century weekly newspaper) became the headquarters of Johnson, Johnson and Roy, a firm of landscape architects, with close connections to the University. Clarence Roy, a partner in the firm, restored his own modest Italianate residence on Second Street, and was one of the founders of the Old West Side Association. The Dr. Chase Building later became headquarters of the Dobson-McOmber Insurance Agency, an old Ann Arbor firm.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 01:19:22 +0000
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