A2: “The Rock”

In this 8-minute video, Al Gallup talks about the genesis of “The Rock” at Hill and Washtenaw, which his father Eli Gallup – Ann Arbor’s superintendent of parks from the 1919 through the early 1960s – found in a gravel pit at what’s now Olson Park. The video includes footage from 1932 of WPA workers removing the rock from the pit, loading into a truckbed, then transporting it down Main Street and over to its current location. Gallup notes that his father collected metal for the plaque from local dumps – the metals were used by University High School students, including Al Gallup’s brother, to cast the plaque. [Source]