Did anyone realize that historical Post Offices are being/have been SOLD? (Pasadena: 2013)

[wehotex]

Hollywood producer David Ellison among crowded field vying for historic post office building in Downtown Santa Monica, The Lookout News


I admit that I used to enjoy mailing letters and doing business at the old post offices that I would encounter in the southland. I recently went to look for the Sta Monica PO that I remembered on Arizona St. GONE!! The Venice location with its mural- GONE!! I hope that the DT Long Bch and the one on Cole St in Hollywood are still there. The new Sta Monica post office is butt ugly, but large. I found a smaller oldie in Canoga Park on Sherman Way with a WPA mural in the lobby. They just don't make them like that anymore. Does anyone want to share the locations of these grand post offices from the Depression era or pre-1960s?

[munchitup]

Hollywood on Wilcox. Pasadena on Colorado.

[bpeeps]

I try and avoid most post offices because they're junk, ugly, unappealing.

[wehotex]

Originally Posted by bpeeps

I try and avoid most post offices because they're junk, ugly, unappealing.

Well, that's just IT. MOST post offices are nondescript and plain. These older post offices have some real architectural character to them, which makes them stand out from the crowd.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by wehotex

Well, that's just IT. MOST post offices are nondescript and plain. These older post offices have some real architectural character to them, which makes them stand out from the crowd.

True of some less grand post offices, too, like the Culver City post office on Washington. I don't know the history for sure but I sense that was the main post office for CC when it was built in the '30s? The CC post office on Jefferson was built much later, in the '70s.