This Henry Davis stamp is on the east side of Clifford Street, just north of the corner of Marcus. The important part of the date is unfortunately very marred. I would guess it is 1955, the same as the other two Henry Davis stamps I have featured.
This spot is across the street from Hunter Park, which interrupts the east-west street grid. Marcus and Elizabeth (and Fuller, which barely exists) end at Hunter Park and on the other side, Hickory, Bement, and Larned take their places, but offset. I’m curious how it developed that way. Sadly, I don’t know the history of Hunter Park and should try to look into that sometime.
Looking west into Hunter Park, with the Henry Davis stamp visible.
This sidewalk stamp is out in front of Hunter Park, which is to say, on the south side of East Kalamazoo Street between Holmes and Clifford. The date is hard to read in my photo, but it is 1982.
This is the only stamp from Ameri-Const. Co. that I have seen so far. I presume that is Ameri-Construction. I can find out little about the business. There is a new business announcement for Ameri-Construction in the January 14, 1991, Lansing State Journal, giving their address as 6800 State Road, East Lansing. That address is actually in Bath Township, near Park Lake. One might assume it must be a different company due to the later date, but more likely it is the same company re-establishing, since there is again a new business announcement on January 15, 1996, also establishing Ameri-Construction at 6800 State Road.
I can’t find any earlier new business listings, but on May 20, 1981, I find a classified advertisement from Ameri-Construction seeking someone to do concrete and carpentry work, “experience preferred.” Unfortunately, no address is listed. On June 23, 1986, Ameri-Construction appears on the sports page, as their softball team was facing off against The Polack Corp. On the same page I notice that Clark Construction was also fielding a team. It seems like a good number of the businesses I’ve written about so far had softball or baseball teams. One unexpected consequence of this project has been learning how big amateur baseball and softball used to be in Lansing.
I’m sorry; this would have been a lot more picturesque had I been walking in daytime. It’s a fairly large park with a big sunny area in the center where I sometimes fly my kite, a pool near the back, a public greenhouse, and a shady grove of trees. So in other words, it’s pretty nice.
Hunter Park is the park I visit most often on my walks. It has an outdoor pool, which no doubt figures prominently in the summers of the children who live in the apartments across the street as well as the surrounding neighborhoods. According to a fascinating report on Lansing parks development from 1969 that I turned up while researching this post (and which I lost a good chunk of time to poring over this evening), Hunter Park was established in 1940.
