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Drury Ln., E. Schneeberger, 1925

Here’s another one from Drury Lane between Ballard Street and High Street, this time from the south side of the street. It’s very worn and the mud doesn’t help either, but I am pretty sure it is an E. Schneeberger stamp. There is also a paired stamp a few steps away, but that one was even harder to see due to slush.

Here’s an even closer view of the stamp.

Another interesting thing about this stamp is that the house it is in front of is the only house that currently has an address on Drury Lane. Drury is a small, one-block street to begin with, and it has several vacant lots. The only other house that appears to face the street rather curiously has a Ballard address, as previously reported. So the occupants of this house have the unique pride of a Drury Lane address. Personally, I think it would be neat to be the only house with an address on a specific street.

The stamp is on the closest (full) sidewalk block.

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Fernwood Ave., DPW, 1925

I had thought I’d catalogued every 1920s stamp on the east side of Lansing, but I was wrong. I stumbled across this 1925 Lansing DPW stamp on the south side of Fernwood Avenue between Magnolia and Hayford.

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N. Francis Ave., DPW, 1925

This “second style” Department of Public Works stamp is on North Francis Avenue just south of the southeast corner of Francis and Fernwood. The stamp is unusually far off center, and is getting cozy with a large evergreen tree.

I had to lean right into the adjacent evergreen to take this photo.

The house by this sidewalk faces the 2500 block of Vine Street and was built in 1986. Few of the houses on the east side are that new, so I was curious if another house had preceded it here. I tried looking for a real estate card in the Belon Real Estate Collection at CADL. There are plenty of cards up through 1530 Vine, then there are only two more, one in the 2200 block and one in the 2400 block. This leads me to theorize that this part of Vine was still largely undeveloped in the 1960s (when the cards date from). Still, there must have been a sidewalk here at least back to 1925.

Facing north on Francis, with Vine in view.

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S. Fairview Ave., E. Schullberger (?) [Schneeberger], 1925

I took a walk through the Urbandale neighborhood this evening. The subdivision was developed in the teens on the site of a former race track. It’s a careworn district, harmed over the years by redlining and frequent flooding. Many derelict properties ended up being demolished, resulting in it being repopulated with a lot of urban farms, but at dusk and under snow it just looked desolate. I didn’t find many leftover Christmas lights.

I did find this very worn 1925 stamp on the west side of South Fairview Avenue between Elizabeth and Harton. (Harton, by the way, is a real oddity: a dirt road, in the city!) I was excited to make out the 1925 date, then a little dismayed to work out (with the help of some different flashlight angles while kneeling down and confusing any watching neighbors) that it is another one of those mysterious E. Schullberger stamps. At least, that’s been my best guess as to how to read the name in the past, and this one isn’t any easier to read than the ones I’ve found before, more’s the pity. Update 5/9/21: I now believe this to be E. Schneeberger.