Friday, February 28, 2014

4214 East Kings Road

We're in the middle of a bunch of boxes on a short stretch of Kings Road. (I've wondered why some streets have so many artistic mailboxes... is it “keeping up with the Joneses?” Someday I'd like to make a map showing all of the boxes I've photographed in Tucson and see if there's a pattern.)

This one...


...has handpainted flowers and vines over a salmon color. I snapped it on May 26th.

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

4138 East Kings Road


Click on the photo if you'd like a larger view of the handpainted house number tiles on this double-decker mailbox with a fancy post. Each of the tiles has its number surrounded by the sun, some birds and some cactus.

By the way, this is our 250th mailbox on the blog. I found it May 26th.

Monday, February 24, 2014

4101 East Kings Road


I spotted this (hard-to-miss!) blue mailbox with handpainted flowers on May 26th.

Friday, February 21, 2014

4009 East Whitman Street


This large mailbox has some rust here and there... but, then again, not many people need to water their mailboxes! The box is also mounted on a trellis and partly covered by a climbing plant.

I found it on my May 26th crisscross through Poets’ Square.

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

4038 East Whitman Street


We've switched from mailboxes along Water Street into the Poets’ Square neighborhood. (It's also sometimes called Poets’ Corner, but the city's neighborhood map for Ward 6 shows Poets’ Square... and the boundaries are also a square!)

Here's a black box with a desert scene in a circle in middle of its three-column post.

Monday, February 17, 2014

4252 East Poe Street

In the middle of the Poets’ Square neighborhood is a charming box with a child's touch:


I found it on May 27th.

Friday, February 14, 2014

4149 East Holmes Street


If you came to the blog today looking for a heart-shaped (Valentine's) mailbox, sorry. The best I can do (this year, at least!) is a pink post. The box and the rest are turquoise-colored.

The “Location” box, where you can usually click to see an address, doesn't seem to be working as I post this week's entries. So here's a clickable address: 4149 E. Holmes.

Update: This mailbox is also shown in the April 6, 2017 entry.

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

2702 East Edison Street

The home at 2702 E. Edison (which, for some reason, wouldn't show up in the “Location” box at the end of this entry) has both a weathered red mailbox with a zigzag design...


...and a long mural. (Click there to see the mural. It's today's post on the Tucson Murals Project blog.) I took photos of both on May 20.

Monday, February 10, 2014

1710-1716 East Water Street

In the past couple of weeks, we've been looking at mailboxes along Water Street. The first was in the 800 block, just east of 1st Avenue. Now we're finishing this part of Water nine blocks east, in the 1700s, just west of Campbell. (There's more just east of here — as well as more sections of Water, here and there, including the last one I've found which is past Craycroft. I'm hoping to catch all of Tucson's creative mailboxes by some year in the future...)


Though I couldn't find any photos that look much like it, this design reminds me of something I'd find at a dock (without the mailboxes, that is). I found it May 20th on... where else? Water Street. The boxes are addressed 1716 and 1710.

Friday, February 7, 2014

1705 East Water Street

Last time, I posted a fish mailbox from Water Street. Here's another — a white box with fish on both sides:


More mailboxes from May 20, 2013 are coming next... though just one from Water Street.

Tuesday, February 4, 2014