Tuesday, August 25, 2015

240 North Cloverland Avenue

A white mailbox with floral designs in (mostly) reds, oranges and browns:


The other side has some of what looks like peeling:


I spotted the box on July 1st.

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

6142 East Beverly Street

This udderly fun mailbox shows a cow with its back left leg (and udder!) half-falling-off:


I moooved by on July 1st.

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

(Sad) Mailbox news from Michigan

This article is from the Arizona Daily Star on August 5th:

Community mourns Michigan man who waved at passers-by

Mailboxes are more than the kind of art we show here. Like (the slowly disappearing) post offices, they can be places for people to stay in touch with each other.

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Air mail in Idaho




I used to do a lot of road trips. Back then, in the days when folks could pay extra to send a letter by Air Mail, quite a few families put Air Mail boxes sky-high as a joke. Here's one east of Filer, Idaho. I didn't get an exact address, but it's on US Highway 30 near the junction with US 93.

I was cruising by on May 14, 1976.