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Playmakers mission is to provide exceptional experiences and cultivate a positive culture while giving back to our community. In other words, we’d love to blow your mind with our commitment to exceeding your expectations and going the “extra mile” to assist you! Throughout the years, our store has grown a lot, learned a lot, and have been incredibly fortunate to have a loyal community who have made Playmakers what it is today. 

Welcome to Elderly Instruments, your favorite family-owned and operated music store in Lansing, Michigan. We carry a wide variety of new, used & vintage instruments and have been shipping them world-wide since 1975. Whether you’re looking for the latest guitar, a vintage mandolin, a used banjo, or accessories for all of the above, we have you covered.

Saddleback BBQ is Lansing, Michigan’s premier craft BBQ joint. We feature authentic Southern BBQ with a unique Midwestern flair. We smoke all of our meats on site in our multiple reverse-flow, wood-fed smokers. We use a mixture of hardwoods sourced from the mid-Michigan area, which includes, Apple, Cherry, and Hickory. Our first restaurant location opened in REO Town, Lansing, Michigan on June 9, 2015. September of 2017, we opened second location in Okemos, Michigan. December of 2021, we rolled out our first non-BBQ restaurant, a Pizzeria, Slice by Saddleback!

In the fall of 2020, during the height of the pandemic, author and podcaster Jenn Carpenter was presented with an opportunity to open a pop-up market inside a friend's retail establishment. The offer came with minimal commitment- affordable month-to-month rent and weekend-only hours. It was the perfect opportunity for Jenn to give one of her lifelong dreams a try- opening her own bookshop. As all of Jenn's other ventures were in the true crime/paranormal/horror realm, it wasn't difficult to decide what kinds of books she wanted to sell.