Posted on by bunnyhugger

Auditorium Rd. (East Lansing), Lansing Poured Wall, 2004

I made another expedition to my alma mater, MSU, to pick something up from the library. I parked in my favorite lot, the metered spaces arranged in a horseshoe by the Hannah Administration Building, and walked across the expansive pavement there. It brought back a distinct memory of marching in front of the building sometime around 2003, chanting union slogans, in the early days of the Graduate Employees Union. I had the honor of being one of the founding members.

Today – May 5 – is the 20th anniversary of the day I defended my dissertation at MSU. I don’t recall seeing this sidewalk being laid, and don’t know whether it was before or after my graduation. It is right out in front of the admin building, and I surely walked over it or its predecessor during that demonstration.

My back is to Hannah the building here, but Hannah the bronze statue is visible in the upper right distance.

This is only the second place I’ve found a Lansing Poured Wall stamp. The other ones were on Jolly Road in front of Capital Honda, also dated 2004.

Posted on by bunnyhugger

Auditorium Rd. (East Lansing),TCI, 2011

I went to MSU’s campus for the first time in years today, and rambled around once-familiar places that now feel like somewhere remembered from a dream. Outside the Auditorium Road approach to my old haunt, South Kedzie Hall, I found this stamp.

Pardon my foot.

I presume the TCI behind this is the one from Eaton Rapids, Michigan. Google reviews suggest it went out of business within the last couple of years.

The TCI stamp is on the other side of the crosswalk. The stamp in the foreground of this picture is Central 2016, but I seem to have somehow put my finger over the lens while photographing that one. I was feeling rushed by the fact that cars kept stopping thinking I was trying to cross.