Circa 1979. Another photo from my scanning project; this from a black & white print. It's a horrible print, and not much of a photo; I'm guessing I shot it with a half-frame point'n'shoot.
My thoughts while scanning:
. "What's this?"
. "A windchime?"
. "OK. But where?"
. "Hmmm. What's that building?"
. "A car wash!"
. "'Got it: 3924 Hartford #302."
That's Waverly Park Apartments, in southwest Lansing. I lived in that apartment from sometime in the spring of 1978 through the end of 1980. Thus the circa 1979.
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I lived in Waverly Park twice. Oddly, I can't recite the other address without looking it up.
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"Packard," Flickr's map says for this location. There was once a railroad stop near where the car wash stands. The stop was established about 1878; I'm not sure when it was abandoned, but 'twas many years before I was born, much less lived in Lansing. The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern called the stop Packard. But there's no current clue about that. Even the remnants of the track are mostly gone.
A free history lesson, just because.
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