The House That We Used to Live In (Hayden, Seger, Ayers, Iggy, Kasdan, Etc.)

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Tom Hayden and his wife Casey lived at 715 Arch Street from 1963-64. In his memoir, Hayden writes that it was a "convenient single-family house" with "nondescript gray shingles, a breezy front porch, and a large basement I could turn into an SDS office." Here is how the house looks today. (The front porch doesn't seem so breezy now but the shingles are still gray. No idea what's in the basement, though it's probably not an SDS office.)



Todd Gitlin, in 1963-64 president of SDS, also lived here during that time.

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In the latter half of the sixties Gilda Radner lived at 725 Haven Street, #6. The house - and Haven Street - have since been demolished.



Photo courtesy Michael Radner.

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This is the house near the U-M campus where Bill Ayers lived in 1965. Ayers would go on to form the Weathermen in the late sixties. More recently he was once more in the news when right-wingers attempted to derail the Obama campaign by linking the future president to the former radical.

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Here we have 114 N. Division, which in the sixties was home to the Prime Movers, a popular Ann Arbor blues band. Iggy Pop was their drummer for a while. Singer/harpist Michael Erlewine went on to found the All Media Guide.

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This is the former Ann Arbor home of political activist and one-time SDS president Carl Oglesby and his wife Beth.

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Bob Seger's childhood home near the U-M campus. Today it's a run-down student rental.

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This house on Hill Street is where filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill) resided in 1971.

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This odd little dwelling is where political activists Richard and Mickey (Miriam) Flacks lived in the early sixties.

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This is the house on the outskirts of Ann Arbor where Ron and Scott Asheton of the Stooges (Iggy Pop's band) lived with their mother Ann.

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Another of Lawrence Kasdan's former residences.

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Political activist Nancy Wechsler, who was elected to Ann Arbor City Council under the Human Rights Party banner in 1972, once rented a room in this house. Nancy and her fellow HRP council member Jerry de Grieck were instrumental in getting Ann Arbor's famous five-dollar pot law passed.

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These are the famous manorial Victorian homes at 1510 and 1520 Hill Street where John Sinclair and the White Panther Party (later the Rainbow People's Party) resided in the late sixties and early seventies. The MC5 lived here for a while, and Jane Fonda stayed over a few times. Today the structures comprise the University of Michigan's Luther Buchele Cooperative House.

   

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Here we have the Coachville trailer park in Pittsfield Township where Jim Osterberg - aka Iggy Pop - lived with his parents from 1949 until some time after he graduated Ann Arbor High in 1965. The trailer park is neither in the city of Ann Arbor nor the city of Ypsilanti. But it is closer to Ann Arbor than it is to Ypsilanti.

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George Frayne, better known as Commander Cody, lived in this house in the mid-sixties when he was an art student at the University of Michigan. Later, with the Lost Planet Airmen, Frayne would find success as a boogie-woogie country rocker, scoring a top-ten hit with "Hot Rod Lincoln" in 1972.

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Two views of the former Ann Arbor home of Robert McNamara. McNamara lived in Tree Town when he was an executive (and eventually president) at Ford Motor Company. Later of course he was Secretary of War under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, from 1961-1968.

   

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Ruth Reichl, author and former editor of Gourmet magazine, lived in an apartment in this building at 711 Packard in 1970.

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This house near downtown Ann Arbor was once the abode of SDS activist and Chicago Seven defendant Rennie Davis. Paul Potter, a president of SDS, lived here as well.

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This modest domicile not far from the U-M campus was home to Ann Arbor police chief Walter Krasny during the sixties and seventies.

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Alan and Judy Guskin, two U-M graduate students who played key roles in the creation of the Peace Corps (see the discussion topic "JFK Peace Corps Speech" for more information), rented a room in this house in the early sixties.

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Here we have the former residence of Albert and Emma Wheeler, two of Ann Arbor's most prominent African-American activists. In 1975 Albert Wheeler won the mayorship of Ann Arbor in a close election which used a controversial instant runoff voting process. Wheeler was again elected mayor in 1977, by a single vote.

[leannlaverne]

  how could any one forget our home base?! i remember the meetings with mr. sinclair re; our responcabilatys as psycidellic rangers. i was 15,we all had our special t shirts and buckets to collect all the cash we could for the best free concerts there were, at the otis spann memorial field? next to huron high school. if you were lucky youd  get joints, or to hang with someone whod offer ya to toke down and get to be friends with them

[marcel]

Re: 114 N. Division house. Michael was the harp (harmonica) player and singer. His  brother was the guitarist. Iggy played drums for a while (the PM's often
changed drummers) and Bob Sheffield was keyboards for quite a while.

[millard52english]

Its amazing.....n i dont think anyone can forget their first dwelling place.......
Beautiful!!!

[Blind Broccoli]

In the latter half of the sixties Gilda Radner lived at 725 Haven Street, #6. The house - and Haven Street - have since been demolished.

Gilda also lived at 500 Packard for a while. I know because so did I but at a different time. I did meet her there though and I recall chatting with her on the porch.

BB

[cobblestone]

Does anyone remember the Co-op boarding house off of Division that was famous for its so-called Socialist members?

I lived in a house in the '90s on the north side of A2 that was once owned by local politico Perry Bullard.  While renovating I found a cache of '60s ephemera including Peace and Black Panther Party buttons and a carefully cut out piece of map of the area around Moscow, Russia that was used as insulation under a wall light switch.