This is the newest stamp I saw on my recent brief (and very cold) walk on Oakland Drive in East Lansing. It’s on the west side of the street between Grand River and Roseland. The Able stamp is ordinary enough, but it’s a date style I don’t think I’ve seen them use, or at least, not so often.
This nice Moore Trosper sign is just west of the entrance drive of the Meridian Mall, on the north side of Grand River Avenue in Meridian Township. I like how the crisply-laid date makes it clear that they are using a modular stamp in which each digit can be replaced separately.
I went for a walk while waiting for my car to get a tire replacement at Discount Tire on Grand River Avenue in Meridian Township. In the process, I found a few new sidewalk stamps, for the first time in a while. This one is in front of a Taco Bell on the north side of the street, across from Meijer.
Mauldon Const. is most likely Mauldon Brothers Construction of Mason, which I believe to be the continuation of Glen Mauldon Construction (Glen having died in 2012). I can’t find out much about the business or its history, except that it seems that they particularly do sewer work and have been contracted to do such work by Meridian Township at times. It is likely, then, that this sidewalk replacement was done as the result of sewer work along Grand River.
This one is from one of my walks near my office in Mount Pleasant. It’s in front of the North Art Studio, a quite distinctive-looking building, on the South Washington Street side of the building. Both sides of the corner here at Preston and Washington has some new sidewalk. I have run into Lakeshore Construction stamps before, on other works around work. There aren’t many stamps around Mount Pleasant, so I’ll take what I can get.
As noted yesterday, I picked a block more or less randomly to stop at on my way home from work, and I ended up on Downer Street between Woodruff and Hopkins. There was disappointingly little of interest; yesterday’s mysterious driveway stamp is the best of it. The newest stamps on the block, from Eastlund Concrete, are from a section of sidewalk wrapping around the southwest corner of Downer and Hopkins.
I took this photo when returning to the car after Silver Bells (Lansing’s annual holiday parade). The stamp is located inside the Lansing Center’s parking garage off City Market Drive.
I had previously and mistakenly believed that the Lansing Center was built in the 1950s. I think I had been confused by reading old newspapers that referenced a civic center in connection with popular midcentury mayor Ralph W. Crego. In fact, that was the Lansing Civic Center, which functioned mainly as a concert venue. It was renamed the Lansing Civic Arena in its later years to avoid confusion with the Lansing Center. The Lansing Center was only built in 1987, which is very surprising to me. That means when I came to town in 1999 it practically had a bit of new-development shine still on it. The Lansing Civic Arena was demolished in 1999. It had been at the southeast corner of Allegan and Pine Streets.
I spotted this new-to-me contractor stamp while I was downtown to walk in the Turkey Trot 5K on Thanksgiving morning. It’s on the west side of North Grand Avenue next to Fire Station #1, which faces Shiawassee. There is a stamp on the driveway apron as well as the sidewalk.
According to the city’s Web site about fire stations, Fire Station #1 was built in 1949 and extensively remodeled in 2006, which accounts for why it looks rather new. It is nicknamed “The Big House.”
I can’t find out much about F & M Construction. Most likely they are F & M Concrete Construction, which I can find listings for placing them on Creyts Road in Dimondale. OpenCorporates shows that “F and M Concrete Construction LLC” of Dimondale only incorporated in 2013, but I would guess it is the same business responsible for this stamp.
With apologies to those who are here only for Lansing sidewalks, I have been dabbling in some Mount Pleasant sidewalk exploration because I have started taking my daily walks up at work some days. It’s been slim pickings, with very few stamps that I have found near work, mostly Eastlund Concrete. I was pleased to finally run across one for a contractor I haven’t seen before, Lakeshore Construction. The stamp is on the west side of Watson Road between Preston Street and Crescent Drive.
The stamp is a familiar style, a modular format seen in a lot of stamps from the last decade or so. I can tell that Lakeshore Construction is a contractor after my own heart. How do I know? Because their web site’s main image is a closeup of their stamp! The site describes them thusly:
Lakeshore Construction is a full service construction and concrete company specializing in stamped concrete, decorative walkways and patios, driveways, poured concrete walls and foundations. Lakeshore Construction started in 2016 servicing the Mid-Michigan area.
This is a new contractor for the blog, and one of the newest stamps on the block of Hickory Street between Euclid and Pennsylvania. The stamp is on the north side of the street. It’s very sharp looking, with a hollow-letter style that I appreciate. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to figure out who the contractor is. If you know, drop me a line.
This stamp, found on the south side of East Michigan Avenue between Clifford and Lathrop, has many twins along this stretch. I took a photo of it mainly to showcase the sad, abandoned storefront it’s in front of.
The City Pulse made this building its Eyesore of the Week on August 29, 2019, writing, “The storefront housed Rapid Printing, Rapid Publications & Advertising and finally Michigan Avenue Printing. Its last Facebook post dates from January 2014 and the business seems to have collected dust since then, with printing equipment visible from the window.” I’m not entirely sure it did close in 2014. The evidence is ambiguous: the building sold in 2014 to its current owner, but a Google street view from August 2015 shows a seemingly lit “OPEN” sign in the front window, though the sign over the awning is gone. It is definitely gone by the time of the next street view picture in August 2016.
A [Lansing] State Journal clipping from December 13, 1935, shows an advertisement for Trilby bath soap which reveals that the address was currently an A&P. In the early 1970s it was apparently an upholstery shop.
The front windows are uncovered for anyone to peer in, and it’s a bizarre sight. A copy machine is still sitting in there along with other office equipment, and a bulletin board just inside the window has faded business cards and advertisements. There is a desiccated potted plant just inside the door that can be made out, already dead, in the August 2015 street view images.