Delta Township, just west of Lansing.
Used to live in the second-floor apartment on the left and park my car about where the white one is. Three decades ago, now. 'Twas a good place.
The complex probably could make a neat logo to go with that name, but they've not done so.
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I lived for a year in one of those third floor apartments; it's on Mall Drive, behind Lansing Mall. But the building was a different color in 1982....
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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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Ah, memories....
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See the 5035 First Street photo for some discussion of what Wall Lake means to me.
Eventually you grow weary of always shooting pictures in the neighborhood. I delivered the Nero Wolfe books to my sister last February 17, and found a chance to photograph something different.
On my way to Kalamazoo I stopped in Delton, where we'd lived for a time in the seventies, to photograph the cottages my parents had owned. Turns out that only one is still standing. I also took a few pix of the area, and wished we still owned the property.
I got off the highways for the return trip from Kalamazoo, since I had the time and knew the roads. The Christle barn photo I posted to 366 Snaps was an opportunity shot; it happens to be another Delton address, but near Fair Lake.
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This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps.
Number of project photos taken: 10
Title of "roll:" Kalamazoo Outing
Other photos taken on 2/17/2012: none.
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