The first 4 rows of photos with the blue Miata were from Saturday and the last three with the black car are from today. Twenty-one total and now I have to go back and add some interesting tidbit to each photo, if I can. And because I’m old and my brain is too, I will have an issue dredging up something to say about every one of them. And surprisingly, the greater the chance of that seems to be on the newer photos…
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- Beaverton S&DC This is the last Post Office of the within the city limits. (3/22/25)
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- North Plains – North Plains is the first town you come to outside Portland on the way to the coast on US-26. (3/22/25)
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- Banks – A slight detour off US-26 sent me into the town of Banks, after that, next stop, surf, mist and the rocky coast. (3/22/25)
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- Tolovan Park – I drove right by this, but circled the block because Mr. Google was telling me I had arrived, but I didn’t believe him. I pulled it the lot on the left and went inside to ask where it might be, when I realized I was in the post office. Another half store half USPS. (3/22/25)
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- Cannon Beach – This one was easy, right on the main drag through town. (3/22/25)
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- Seaside – Jeep, Jeep, Ram, Miata. (3/22/25)
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- Gearhart – The red car must be the Postmaster’s and I tried waiting out the man who got out of that black SUV, but gave up. (3/22/25)
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- Hammond – Hammond was originally the site of a Clatsop village called Ne-ahk-stow, and is now technically part of Warrenton. But it has its own ZIP Code, 97121. (3/22/25)
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- Warrenton – This is an older post office that has lost a bit of its “front yard” to make way for the monument to the town’s soldiers. (3/22/25)
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- Astoria – Now this is more like it. This is a real deal US Post Office and Custom House. #/22/25)
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- Clatskanie – My day on the coast over, I headed back home on US-30 along the Columbia River. (3/22/25)
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- Veronia – Dear Verona, thank you from the bottom of my Miata loving heart for having a post office or I wouldn’t have found an awesome sport car road. (3/22/25)
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- Aloha – It has nothing to do with the 50th state. One leading theory is that in the early 20th century, the postmaster named the post office Aloah after her happy memories of a lake resort in Wisconsin, using the Native word for “good morning.” As the story goes, that name was rejected, so the postmaster rearranged the letters into “Aloha,” but the original pronunciation stuck. (3/23/25)
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- Hillsboro – Aah, Hillsboro, we finally meet. When living in Klamath Falls it seemed like all our Amazon packages came through here. (3/23/25)
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- Cornelius – All I could think on the way here was Roddy McDowall played him in the first two Planet of the Apes movies. (3/23/25
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- Forest Grove – In my five minute wait, no other cars came in the parking lot and nobody came out of the post office. (3/23/25)
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- Gaston – Perhaps because of the Cornelius thing all I have for this is the character from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. (23/23/25)
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- Yamhill – There was a guy pressure washing the lot on the left and the one on the right would leave the car mostly hidden, so I pulled up in front, on the wrong side of the street. (3/23/25)
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- Carlton – Okay, I promise no more pop culture references in post office captions. Well, except for this one, Lorenzo Music voiced Carlton the Doorman on the 80s sitcom Rhoda. (3/23/25)
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- Lafayette – The town was founded in 1846 by Joel Perkins, an American pioneer and entrepreneur, who had previously lived in Lafayette, Indiana. (3/23/25)
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- Saint Paul – Named after the Saint Paul Mission founded in 1838 in the Oregon Territory to minister to the Catholic inhabitants of French Prairie. (3/23/25)
