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Some decades back, the Teachers Service Commission headquarters used to be referred to as ‘the teachers suffering centre’. That was at the ‘Bell Bottom’ on Haile Sellassie Avenue. The cooperative bank house was christened ‘Bell bottom’ due to its shape that resembles the famous bell bottom trouser. Among its neighbours were the American Embassy. Terrorists forced its relocation when they rammed a truckload of bombs into the then American embassy in 1998.
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