From the Archives: Remember when East Lansing looked like this?

Vickki Dozier
Lansing State Journal
Exterior of State Discount on East Grand River Avenue, located mid-block, 1985.

EAST LANSING - There are still bookstores, coffee shops and a record store along the strip in East Lansing. There used to be more.

Back in the day, you could find shoe stores, sporting goods shops, restaurants, clothing stores and movie theaters.

Maybe you frequented them as a student at Michigan State University, because, in the '60s, '70s and even '80s, East Lansing had a lot going on. 

But now, many of those stores we remember from East Lansing’s past are gone. Here is a trip down memory lane to look back on some of those spots.

Contact Vickki Dozier at (517) 267-1342 or vdozier@lsj.com. Follow her on Twitter @vickkiD.