Wednesday, March 26, 2014

4145 East Burns Street

This bright mosaic-covered mailbox...


...is in front of a beautifully decorated home, which you can see by clicking there (to view it on the Tucson Murals Project blog).

I visited on May 26, 2013.

Monday, March 24, 2014

4241 East Burns Street


This plain metal mailbox has a post surrounded by prickly pear made of brown metal. (Yes, it's at 4241 East Burns. The first 4 is missing.)

I snapped the photo on May 26, 2013.

Friday, March 21, 2014

4231 East Burns Street



Though I couldn't find a house number on this white mailbox, Google Maps Street View tells me that it's at 4231 E. Burns. Rocks and a piece of weathered wood surrounded its (partly bent) post.

I took the photo on May 26th, 2013.

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Monday, March 17, 2014

4132 East Oxford Drive

This white mailbox looks similar to some others I've seen around town. Maybe they're made by a local artist?


It has rectangles with desert scenes. I rolled by on May 26, 2013.

Friday, March 14, 2014

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

4201 East Oxford Drive

Here's a black mailbox with intricate white patterns... and a couple of bits of red:


I snapped the photos on May 26, 2013.

Monday, March 10, 2014

4220 East Oxford Drive

When I rolled by this home on May 26, I couldn't find a house number. It was between 4214 and 4232 E. Oxford Drive, though, and Google Maps gave me the address 4220:


It's a gloriously hand-painted white box.

Friday, March 7, 2014

4245 East Kings Road

Here's one last box from this two-block stretch of Kings Road. It's white with bronze and copper trim, and it's on a post that's shorter than most boxes’:


I snapped all of the Kings Road boxes on May 26th, 2013.

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

4232 East Kings Road

Here's a blue-green mailbox with handpainted flowers and a fantastical critter wrapped around the box:


I snapped the photos on May 26th.

Monday, March 3, 2014

4220 East Kings Road


Can't miss this mailbox with its signs and bumper (well, box) stickers!

I found it on May 26th.

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

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

Friday, January 31, 2014

1434 East Water Street


I found a lot of mailboxes on my May 20th ride along Water Street. This one, mounted on posts like you might find on a pier — and the next (next week) — have a water theme.

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Monday, January 27, 2014

1210 East Water Street


On May 20, 2013, I rode past this gray mailbox inside a shiny post covered with tile, mirrors and crystals.

Saturday, January 25, 2014

1119 East Water Street


Here's a green mailbox with tile numbers on the post and a critter flag.

I came by it on May 20th.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

843 East Water Street

A handsome mailbox with soft mountaintops under a warm desert sky:


I snapped the photos on May 20th.

Monday, January 20, 2014

458 East Alturas Street


Here's a black box with the address, on top, in a mountain-shaped piece of rust-finished metal.

I rolled by it on May 20th.

Saturday, January 18, 2014

2519 North Geronimo Avenue

This black mailbox, mounted on an iron circle with a disc in the middle, has an interesting shadow, too:


I found it on May 20th.

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

3411 North Geronimo Avenue


These tidy-looking stuccoed mailbox and separate address post have tile numbers and artwork around them.

They were along the route of my May 20th bike ride.

Monday, January 13, 2014

3645 North Stone Avenue


On the west side of busy North Stone Avenue is a mailbox that's probably caught your eye as you rode by. It's a dark brown metal color, wrapped by huge flowers and leaves.

(Though I'd spotted this place before, I finally took the photos on May 20th — by riding my bike along narrow Stone Avenue early in the morning, before there was much traffic. Bike lanes here are tiny, and there are no parallel side streets along this part of Stone.)

There's lots more iron work around the home. See the page 3645 North Stone on TucsonArt.info.


Friday, January 10, 2014

3398 North Fontana Avenue

Matching critters, top and bottom, on this black mailbox.

Fontana had lots of good box-hunting on May 20, 2013!

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Monday, January 6, 2014

2520 North Fontana Avenue


If you've been following the last few entries, you know that I was riding along North Fontana Ave. on May 20 of last year. And if you've already seen today's entry on the Tucson Murals Project blog, you'll know that there are handpainted murals on the porch. (If you missed it, click there.)

And here you can see the box. It's black, on a dark post set with square and rectangular tiles.

Friday, January 3, 2014

3307 North Fontana Avenue


On May 20th, I just happened to be riding far enough on Fontana Avenue that I spotted two similar mailboxes eight blocks away from each other. You saw the first box, at 2520 N. Fontana, yesterday. (If you didn't, you can click there.)

Here's the second box, the one farther north. It's black, with the house number and a saguaro between the posts.

(I normally don't show saguaros, but this coincidence made the boxes worth showing.)

Thursday, January 2, 2014

2507 North Fontana Avenue


This plain white box has its house number and a saguaro between the posts:

I found it (and the box at 3307 North Fontana; see tomorrow's entry!) on May 20, 2013.

P.S. The last half of last year was sooooo busy that I had to cut the number of mailbox “posts.” But I'm back on my bicycle, and I'm hoping to get back to posting boxes every day — at least, every weekday.

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

203 East Linden Street

Let's start 2014 with a creative white mailbox that has the address — 203 E. Linden — in curved dashed letters on both sides:


I snapped it on May 20th (2013).

Monday, December 30, 2013

Santa Koala, 3202 East 28th


We started 2013 with a koala bear mailbox, at 3202 East 28th Street, complete with branches and leaves. When I rolled by last Friday, the 27th, I saw that the owner had added some Christmas cheer to the street.

Friday, December 27, 2013

2411 East Waverly Street


I rolled by this sunny spring scene on May 14th: a handpainted white box, covered by — and surrounded by — flowers.

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

2345 East Elm Street

In case Christmas Day in Tucson doesn't turn out to be bright and sunny, the photo in today's Tucson Murals Project post, Maybe a mural, part 49: Giant flowers on Elm will brighten up your day.

There's also a mailbox at 2345 East Elm, but it's not quite as spectacular as the flowers:


Homeowners at 2345: Thanks for the art… and the box!

PS: I've been super-busy these past few months. There just hasn't been time to post many mailbox photos. I'm hoping to break away a day, soon, to post a lot of the backlog of boxes. Please check back!