I walked to the zoo today with my husband, a route that took us over I-496 (the Olds Freeway) via South Clemens Avenue. Clemens “turns into” Aurelius Road on the south side of 496. So most people would say, but technically, it stays itself, just in another place. There is a South Clemens on the other side of 496, detached from the South Clemens that becomes Aurelius. A lot of north-of-496 people probably don’t even realize that. There are what I jokingly call “alternative universe” or “other” versions of several of my familiar neighborhood streets. “The Other Regent,” “The Other Leslie,” and so on.

Anyway, on the last block of Clemens as it starts to turn into the approach to the overpass, as far south as one can go and still be on the east side (as 496 is the conventional southern edge of the neighborhood), I found this stamp from an unfamiliar contractor. It is on the west side, in the 600 block.

My attempts to find much of anything out about Michigan Concrete Floors have resulted in a flood of irrelevant search results, for obvious reasons. I did find the existence of a business that incorporated from 1982 to 1987 called Michigan Concrete Floors, Inc., that was based in Eaton Rapids. I’m inclined to think this is probably the same company, although the name is generic enough I can’t be confident. Another Michigan Concrete Floors, Inc., based in Sterling Heights, incorporated and dissolved several times in the 1990s (eventually becoming Imperial Concrete Floors). They don’t share an address or any other details that I can see, so I would guess the Sterling Heights and Eaton Rapids companies were unrelated. There are still more questions than answers for this one and I’m afraid I’ll have to leave it there for now.