Continuing on Monday’s theme, here is the other street-name stamp that I discovered on a recent evening walk in Albion. It’s at the curved “corner” where Elizabeth Street meets East Erie, informing the pedestrian that this way is Elizabeth. (Presumably there was originally a matching Erie mark, as in Monday’s example, but I wonder if it was on the concrete block closer to Erie, which has obviously been replaced at some point.) I have walked past this many times, but only noticed it on this occasion because the light caught it exactly right; it’s very shallow and worn. I have actually featured this stretch of sidewalk in a previous blog entry due to its interesting curved corner, but as it was winter then, I had no hope of noticing this stamp.

This curved sidewalk at the north end of Elizabeth is not duplicated in any of the nearby residential streets. Those are all squared off and look newer, so perhaps they used to be like this one.