Scrapping Of Salvage Yard Stuns Customers

Parent Issue
Ann Arbor News, June 28, 1987
Day
28
Month
June
Year
1987
Related
Owners of Lansky and Sons Salvage Yard, June 1987
Owners Gilbert and Aubrey Lansky Stand in Front of Salvage Yard, June 1987
Brothers Gilbert and Aubrey Lansky, June 1987
Owners Recall History of Lansky and Sons Salvage Yard, June 1987
Gilbert Lansky At His Desk, June 1987
Gilbert Lansky, June 1987
Aubrey Lansky At His Desk, June 1987
Aubrey Lansky, June 1987
Scrap Piled High at Lansky and Sons Salvage Yard, June 1987
Truck Unloads at Lansky and Sons Salvage Yard, June 1987
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AACHM Oral History: Johnny Barfield

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Johnny W. Barfield was born February 8, 1927, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. As a child he sold soap house to house and, after tenth grade, joined the U.S. Army where he served in France and Germany. After leaving the Army in 1947, Mr. Barfield became a wall washer for the University of Michigan, where hard work, entrepreneurship, and innovation helped him build the largest cleaning business in Ann Arbor. Mr. Barfield is widely recognized for his philanthropic work and support of the African American and business communities.

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