1942 – Capital City Sidewalks

Posted on May 15, 2021 by bunnyhugger

Prospect St., DPW, 1942

This isn’t a sidewalk or even a driveway. It’s a concrete pad on the Prospect Street side of the old L.F.D. No. 4 fire station (now home to the Davies Project). The building faces Bingham Street at the northwest corner of Bingham and Prospect.

It appears that at some point the concrete was covered with a layer of asphalt that has mostly worn away, letting the old stamp resurface. I like how it looks. 1942 is an especially common year for DPW stamps in the neighborhood, usually using the “old style” (1910s- early 1940s) stamp.

This is the old fire station. The stamp is on the right front corner of the concrete pad next to the building.

Posted on December 28, 2020December 28, 2020 by bunnyhugger

Regent St., DPW, 1942

Back to familiar territory: here is a Department of Public Works stamp on the west side of the 400 block of Regent Street, between Kalamazoo and Elizabeth. I believe it is dated 1942, like another nearby DPW stamp, though the 4 is hard to make out.

Looking south on Regent Street. It was raining a bit.

Posted on December 11, 2020 by bunnyhugger

Update: Regent St., previously illegible DPW stamp, 1942

I’ve had my eye on this Regent Street Department of Public Works stamp (on the east side, 400 block, between Elizabeth and Kalamazoo). I previously posted it as having an illegible date, Periodically, it has almost become legible, due to the right lighting or a bit of water pooling in the indentations. Recently, I had decided it was possibly a 4 after the 19, but still could not read the final number at all. Then, suddenly, as I walked the block this evening…

Plain as day, thanks to fall rains washing away the right amount of mud and leaving the right amount of silt behind.