Yeah, sticking with some more pictures from around town. I promise to write something about Anthrohio soon.
The doomed houses are in the background there. In the foreground, though, you can see the driveway apron ghost for where a house used to be. I think ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger found it had been a university surplus store that she never once saw open.
One of the boarded-up houses. Hard not to wonder what the last occupants were, although they were probably short-term renters, possibly AirBnB people using it as a flophouse.
I'm going ahead and guessing the houses are from the 1920s and have had a rough past seven decades or so.
The three doomed houses, along with what look like the lsat, uncollected trash bins. Or possibly someone unhoused using it as a convenient cache people aren't going to mess with.
Can't close the road if they don't have their signs!
This is the eastern end of Prospect Street and it looks strikingly suburban for being in just about literally the middle of the Lansing metropolitan area. This is because this region is Lansing Charter Township which doesn't require people to have sidewalks like decent folk.
Trivia: Chess games played by telegraph are known to have existed by the 1840s at latest, with a coding system in place on the Washington-Baltimore line. Source: The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's Online Pioneers, Tom Standage.
Currently Reading: The Whole Truth: A Cosmologist's Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality, P J E Peebles.
