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E. Bellows St., Mt. Pleasant, Kastle Const., 1994

Mount Pleasant has few sidewalk stamps, but I found this one on a curb cut on Bellows Street, at the northwest corner of Bellows and South University. There are several others like it nearby.

The building here, now vacant, was SBX (the Student Book Exchange) until 2018. I miss the days of independent college bookstores. CMU doesn’t have any now and at the rate they’re pushing “Inclusive Access” (a monopolizing opt-out program that automatically charges students for a lousy online copy of a book) their official University bookstore will soon just be a clothing and tchotchke shop. Nearby this abandoned store are several other abandoned storefronts that used to serve CMU students. It is probably not a coincidence that CMU’s student population is around half what it was in 2014.

I can’t tell you much about Kastle Construction of Central Michigan except that they apparently used to be located on Commerce Drive in Mount Pleasant and no longer appear to be in business. I appreciate their leaving behind some stamps for me.

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S. Washington St. (Mt. Pleasant) Snow Melt System

This is another Mount Pleasant digression, an advertisement of the heated sidewalk in front of Anspach Hall on Central Michigan University’s campus, on the east side of South Washington Street between Library Drive and Ottawa Court. I see this stamp all the time on my way in and out from work, and I like the look of the typeface. It’s a very 1970s font, although I believe this was installed during Anspach’s renovation in the 2010s.