Comments on: Column: Change, You Can’t Bank On It

By: cmadler

cmadler — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:42:12 +0000

The bank building at S.U. and E.U. has never housed TCF, though it’s possible that it housed a branch of one of the banks that eventually became TCF in Michigan (Great Lakes Bank, for example).

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:00:14 +0000

It’s gotta be a guy thing. I had to recruit one in order to find the referenced word.

By: Jim Rees

Jim Rees — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:02:20 +0000

A friend of mine was one of the bricklayers and claimed at the time the word was his doing. He did not lose his job. He did later successfully run for public office in another state. As far as I know the creative bricklaying did not come up as an issue in the campaign.

By: Dave Askins

Dave Askins — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:00:41 +0000

Dave,

Thanks to you and a couple other readers for giving us a heads up on that. I’ve since gone out and re-shot the photo for replacement (soon) of the first one I took. From what I gather, the correct Bank was a TCF in the past (?). In any case, we’ll chalk this one up to photographer’s error (i.e., mine).

I find it somewhow encouraging that this is enough a part of the collected community memory that several people spotted the inaccurate photo instantly.

By: Dave Hutchinson

Dave Hutchinson — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:22:45 +0000

The Ann Arbor Bank that had the windows broken was the bank on the Southeast corner of S.U. and E. U., not the pictured one at Church St. Nice to see the full circle pattern though.