This bit of graffiti is on the east side of Regent Street’s 300 block, between Michigan and Kalamazoo. The date is hard to ascertain. The first digit looks to be a 9, but the second? Up close it looks like a crooked 1. From a distance it seems to resolve to a 3, but it’s hard to be sure that isn’t a trick of the light.

References to various Glatz family members at this address start popping up occasionally in the (Lansing) State Journal in 1956. The last one I can find is in 1964. On April 8, it was reported that “Mr. and Mrs. Noble L. Bell of 1727 Bailey St. East Lansing, will host a rehearsal dinner Friday evening honoring their son, Danny Lowell Bell, and his fiance, Miss Margaret Louise Glatz…. Miss Glatz is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Glatz of 307 Regent St.” Elsewhere, the same issue lists recent marriage licenses, among them Bell and Glatz’s. There Margaret’s address is also given as 307 Regent.

Because the online parcel records for Lansing only have sales records from around 2000 on, I don’t know when the Glatz family left the house. I wonder what they would think of it now that the current landlord has replaced the entire front yard with gravel so the tenants can use it for parking.