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Bingham St., DPW, 1977

This is the first 1970s DPW stamp I have found, and it’s on the east side of Bingham just south of Eureka, in a lovely patch of dappled shade. It’s in the style of the 1980s stamps I have previously collected.

The corner of Eureka and Bingham, looking northeast toward the back end of Sparrow. The stamp is at the lower right.

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Eureka St., Carlson Const., 1977

This stamp is on the west side of Bingham Street between Michigan and Prospect, in front of the parking lot for the Pilgrim Congregational church. That’s where I vote now that Bingham (Street) School is gone.

This one is interesting because of its date. 1970s stamps are the least common decade I find (that is, from the 1920s on). There are a lot of 80s stamps, a fair few 60s stamps, but only a smattering of 70s stamps around the east side.

Looking at the church, with the stamp above located to the lower right of the graffiti.

Unfortunately, this is one of those cases in which the contractor’s name is too common for me to narrow down who it is. I can’t find a history of a Carlson Construction company in metro Lansing, though there have been Carlsons in Benton Harbor, Byron Center, Otsego, and Saranac, the last being the closest.

Another stamp in this cluster. I think there are four of them in this stretch.