washington – Capital City Sidewalks

Posted on April 29, 2023 by bunnyhugger

Washington Rd., Mt. Pleasant, graffiti, 1964

There are a few little churches which, while obviously not formally affiliated with CMU, are tucked surprisingly tightly into campus near the building where I work. They are all small, low-slung, modern-looking buildings. It was outside one of them, Christ the King Lutheran Chapel, that I found this sidewalk graffiti.

I think it reads “G.H. + P.K. Nov. 9 1964” although I am not confident about the second set of initials. The year makes sense as likely being when the sidewalk was first constructed. According to Christ the King’s “About Us” page, the chapel was dedicated in 1966.

Posted on November 29, 2022 by bunnyhugger

S. Washington St., Mt. Pleasant, Lakeshore Construction, 2019

This one is from one of my walks near my office in Mount Pleasant. It’s in front of the North Art Studio, a quite distinctive-looking building, on the South Washington Street side of the building. Both sides of the corner here at Preston and Washington has some new sidewalk. I have run into Lakeshore Construction stamps before, on other works around work. There aren’t many stamps around Mount Pleasant, so I’ll take what I can get.

Posted on December 9, 2021 by bunnyhugger

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.

Posted on November 2, 2021 by bunnyhugger

S. Washington St., Mt. Pleasant, Eastlund Concrete, 2008

I live in Lansing but work in Mount Pleasant. I’ve digressed from metro Lansing before to post some stamps from Albion, where my parents live, but haven’t done any from Mount Pleasant. So, while taking my lunch break walk today, I decided to see what I could find.

I walked probably a mile along South Washington Street before I finally found any stamps at all. I am going to assume Mount Pleasant has no ordinance requiring sidewalk stamping. I did eventually find a pair of stamps bookending a long stretch on the east side of Washington between Gaylord and May. Eastlund Concrete gets around: they are also one of the only stamps I have been able to find near my parents’ house in Albion, as well as showing up frequently in Lansing. They’re based in Holt, south of Lansing, making Mt. Pleasant a pretty good hike for them. They evidently are also pretty consistent stampers, since it appears that stamping sidewalks is uncommon in both Albion and Mount Pleasant.