Today’s stamp is new to me (and this blog). I found it – and a few others, which will make their appearances in the next entries – while walking back to my car after participating in the Silver Bells 5K. It’s on East Michigan Avenue at the northwest corner of Michigan and North Washington Square, in front of the beautifully ornate former City National Bank building now occupied by a Comerica branch. The date is a little hard to read but I think it is 1994, which does fall within the timeframe during which I can ascertain that John C. Wallace Cement Contractor was in business.

The earliest reference I can find to the business is in the 1985 directory of the Michigan Association of County Drain Commissioners. An advertisement places them on Van Dyke in Utica (Google says the address is actually in Shelby Township). The latest I can find is in a 2011 bankruptcy petition by Bing Construction Company of Bloomfield Hills; they are named as a creditor.