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S. Foster Ave., G & M, 1992

I stopped to check this one out because for a moment I thought it was a style of O & M stamp I hadn’t seen before, and I have been trying to catalogue all those variations. Instead I found a stamp from the mysterious G & M, on the east side of Foster Avenue between Prospect and Michigan.

I wish I could say the vignetting was an artistic choice, but it’s really because of having to use a flash since it was night. That’s also why I took this one from a bit farther away than usual.

I haven’t been able to find out much about G & M. I am guessing they were the G & M Construction Corporation, which I can find an entry for in OpenCorporates. They incorporated in June 1995 and dissolved in 2003.

This was the best angle I could find for making the date (1992) legible.

Assuming this is the same G & M Construction Corporation, they were located on Pollard Road in southwest Lansing at an address that seems to just serve as a house today.

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Able, Jerome St., 1999

This is another one of the many 1999-dated Able stamps around the east side, in this case on the south side of Jerome just east of Horton. When I wrote my last Able Concrete entry, I failed to recognize something that subsequently hit me while watching TV. Oh yeah… it’s the people with the jingle! “We’re ready, we’re willing, we’re Able… Concrete!” Unfortunately, I can’t find the jingle online, but if you watch TV in the Lansing market then you know what I am talking about. I had not made the connection at first.

Unlike, say, Cantu Builders, who have drifted away from their concrete business roots, Able Concrete still proudly have concrete right in their jingle. (Note: if you experience concrete in your jingle that lasts more than four hours, seek medical attention.)

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Able, Regent St., 1999

I moved to Lansing in 1999, so this pavement and I have spent about the same amount of time in the neighborhood. It’s on the east side of Regent’s 300 block, between Michigan and Kalamazoo.

Able Concrete of Dewitt is responsible for several 90s-early 2000s slabs on the blocks I walk regularly. There’s nothing really special about this one, but it does help me toward my goal of having at least one representative of each decade. I had originally figured that would be from the 1910s on, but then yesterday I had a surprise from 1907, so now I’ll be able to cover the whole 20th century.