Tag Archives: Postal Service

Black Dahlia

  This letter showed up on my desk last week. Note the postmark: August 2007. Apparently "Black Dahlia" and "Los Angeles Times" is almost all it takes to get a letter to me–eventually–although I don’t recommend it. For the record, … Continue reading

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Christmas past

Dec. 21, 1944 Los Angeles   Photograph by the Los Angeles Times Huntington Park Postmaster George J. Nevin observes high school students hired to help deliver an unprecedented volume of Christmas mail. On a recent day, the Huntington Park post … Continue reading

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