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02:52:34am
Did they have free beer ?
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That's about a half hour west of me! I went to a hobby shop there recently. Old time little city.
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Nice cover, Phil.
I like post office dedication covers and last day before closing covers from Texas.
David
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Who doesn't love Last Day Covers?
Here's a link to one I created:
Last Day: Chatham PA
Last Day Covers can be elusive. Many (Most?) of these are philatelic creations, like the one I created. Does anyone know how to get advanced notice of PO closures?
-Paul
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I'm going to be in Boyertown on Sunday (model car show, Paul!). I wanted to see if the post office that was dedicated in 1938 was still in use. So I went to my usual Google Maps and interesting enough that street wasn't run by their photo car! All the streets around it were, just not Washington Ave on those few blocks!
So I went to the postmark club's website where they have photos of all the US post offices they were about to collect. It's unusual for one I look up not to be there... and guess what? No Boyertown! So I guess I'm going there to take a photo on Sunday!
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Tom,
I posted about the Boyertown PO here some time ago:
Boyertown PA Post Office Murals
It's located at 128 S. Washington St, about 2.5 blocks due South of Modellbahn (walking distance). Not much to see on the outside. I can't remember for sure, but I think the PO was relocated there sometime after 1938. Or, the building has been reMODELed since then.
I may take a jaunt over there on Sunday, Boyertown is about 18 miles from my house. I should stock up on some detailing stuff for the 1:32 MiG-15 I have started...
-Paul
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Thanks Paul... model show is at the firehouse 9-2.
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Mystery solved... here's the Boyertown Post Office as of yesterday. It was really too sunny to take a decent photo, but it will do for our purposes.
So we know that the post office that was dedicated back in 1938 isn't the current location. This is the typical USPS architecture of the 1970s onward. USPS just plunks their awful buildings into places where the style just doesn't belong.
Boyertown is a quaint old town. If there weren't modern cars, you'd swear you were in the early 1900s driving down Philadelphia Avenue, the main drag. A 1938 post office would probably still be the newest building on the block! I wonder where it was and what happened to it.
Philadelphia Avenue in Boyertown
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Our Clermont N.Y. storefront postoffice closed November 29, 1957, then reopened for one day August 19, 1965 for the first day of issue of the Robert Fulton stamp.
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Thanks Charlie!
That's the typical post office architecture of the 1930s, I'm wondering if the building still exists. I can take a Google Maps walk around town to look for it!
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Yep, still there, eagle and all:
It's a tax accountant's office now.
19 N Reading Ave.
-Paul
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Very similar in design to the old post office here in Sebring, Florida built in the same time period but in a Mediterranean style. It’s now used as the city’s police headquarters. I’ll have to look for the eagle.
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Very cool Paul! I feared it was now a parking lot! It looks great, in fact much better than the current post office!
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It seems that, until the automobile culture ballooned, post offices were typically located near the centers of towns.
With traffic congestion, migration to the suburbs, etc., it must have seemed prudent to relocate post offices to the periphery of town centers. Great idea - make us MORE dependent upon automobile culture. {sigh}
-Paul
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09:13:08am
It's great when the buildings we remember from our childhood are re-purposed rather than torn down. The old one roomed school I attended in the 1950's is now a community center. It had a folding partition in the middle with primary to two (Mrs. Wallace) on one side and grades three to five (Mrs. Gauthier) on the other. I remember it well and still enjoy driving past the building!!
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i have a cover of the post office dedication Boyerstown Pa. March 5, 1938. i am having trouble getting the scan to size here but i could email someone a scan if they are interested in Post office dedications.
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02:52:34am
re: post office dedication Boyerstown ,Pa. March 5, 1938
Did they have free beer ?
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re: post office dedication Boyerstown ,Pa. March 5, 1938
That's about a half hour west of me! I went to a hobby shop there recently. Old time little city.
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re: post office dedication Boyerstown ,Pa. March 5, 1938
Nice cover, Phil.
I like post office dedication covers and last day before closing covers from Texas.
David
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10:32:24am
re: post office dedication Boyerstown ,Pa. March 5, 1938
Who doesn't love Last Day Covers?
Here's a link to one I created:
Last Day: Chatham PA
Last Day Covers can be elusive. Many (Most?) of these are philatelic creations, like the one I created. Does anyone know how to get advanced notice of PO closures?
-Paul
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re: post office dedication Boyerstown ,Pa. March 5, 1938
I'm going to be in Boyertown on Sunday (model car show, Paul!). I wanted to see if the post office that was dedicated in 1938 was still in use. So I went to my usual Google Maps and interesting enough that street wasn't run by their photo car! All the streets around it were, just not Washington Ave on those few blocks!
So I went to the postmark club's website where they have photos of all the US post offices they were about to collect. It's unusual for one I look up not to be there... and guess what? No Boyertown! So I guess I'm going there to take a photo on Sunday!
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03:40:17pm
re: post office dedication Boyerstown ,Pa. March 5, 1938
Tom,
I posted about the Boyertown PO here some time ago:
Boyertown PA Post Office Murals
It's located at 128 S. Washington St, about 2.5 blocks due South of Modellbahn (walking distance). Not much to see on the outside. I can't remember for sure, but I think the PO was relocated there sometime after 1938. Or, the building has been reMODELed since then.
I may take a jaunt over there on Sunday, Boyertown is about 18 miles from my house. I should stock up on some detailing stuff for the 1:32 MiG-15 I have started...
-Paul
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re: post office dedication Boyerstown ,Pa. March 5, 1938
Thanks Paul... model show is at the firehouse 9-2.
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re: post office dedication Boyerstown ,Pa. March 5, 1938
Mystery solved... here's the Boyertown Post Office as of yesterday. It was really too sunny to take a decent photo, but it will do for our purposes.
So we know that the post office that was dedicated back in 1938 isn't the current location. This is the typical USPS architecture of the 1970s onward. USPS just plunks their awful buildings into places where the style just doesn't belong.
Boyertown is a quaint old town. If there weren't modern cars, you'd swear you were in the early 1900s driving down Philadelphia Avenue, the main drag. A 1938 post office would probably still be the newest building on the block! I wonder where it was and what happened to it.
Philadelphia Avenue in Boyertown
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re: post office dedication Boyerstown ,Pa. March 5, 1938
Our Clermont N.Y. storefront postoffice closed November 29, 1957, then reopened for one day August 19, 1965 for the first day of issue of the Robert Fulton stamp.
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Thanks Charlie!
That's the typical post office architecture of the 1930s, I'm wondering if the building still exists. I can take a Google Maps walk around town to look for it!
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re: post office dedication Boyerstown ,Pa. March 5, 1938
Yep, still there, eagle and all:
It's a tax accountant's office now.
19 N Reading Ave.
-Paul
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re: post office dedication Boyerstown ,Pa. March 5, 1938
Very similar in design to the old post office here in Sebring, Florida built in the same time period but in a Mediterranean style. It’s now used as the city’s police headquarters. I’ll have to look for the eagle.
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re: post office dedication Boyerstown ,Pa. March 5, 1938
Very cool Paul! I feared it was now a parking lot! It looks great, in fact much better than the current post office!
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re: post office dedication Boyerstown ,Pa. March 5, 1938
It seems that, until the automobile culture ballooned, post offices were typically located near the centers of towns.
With traffic congestion, migration to the suburbs, etc., it must have seemed prudent to relocate post offices to the periphery of town centers. Great idea - make us MORE dependent upon automobile culture. {sigh}
-Paul
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re: post office dedication Boyerstown ,Pa. March 5, 1938
It's great when the buildings we remember from our childhood are re-purposed rather than torn down. The old one roomed school I attended in the 1950's is now a community center. It had a folding partition in the middle with primary to two (Mrs. Wallace) on one side and grades three to five (Mrs. Gauthier) on the other. I remember it well and still enjoy driving past the building!!
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