the old post office

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When I was 8 years old we lived very close to town...practically in town I guess...the garage where my dad worked was only a 3 house block away....It was where the post office is now......but I wanted to talk about the old post office, vintage 1911.....another great building ...and in hindsight I am sure that some people wish it were still there.....It was a fine red brick building , as you can see.....but somehow in the name of progress was torn down in the seventies and replaced with another structure...(people got a heck of a deal on red bricks and I bought a wooden beam about 16' x 4"x 12" for 2 bucks).....well that is spilt milk I reckon, but I have good memories of that building. Every time we (my pals) went downtown we would usually hop up the steps and go in and see what was doing...read the wanted posters on the wall and check things out ...the floors were white tile and people clip clopped about...it was cool to look at the glass windowed mailboxes..... there were hundreds of them..... I liked run errands for the mail and open the numbered mailbox with a key....of course we could always see if there was mail because of the glass.....actually you could look right through and see the workers on the other side...then out the other door and hop down those steps....or maybe take a run at the outside steps and give the brass letter slot box a flip...I dunno why we did that but there was something about looking in that thing.