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traffic was doing that one foot per minute thing when I looked out the passenger window and saw this mailbox.
From time to time, vandals stave in mailboxes with baseball bats up and down the street when they're bored. Not this time. My mailbox was in a head on collision with a pick-up truck. Dry road, good light, but the truck seems simply to have veered off the road into the ditch, snapping off my mailbox at the ground. The truck then proceeded to encounter the neighbour's culvert which it gazelle-like o'ersprang (not!) before coming to rest on their front lawn. I will be without mail service now until next week.
This is the infamous "Mailbox Marilyn" I first saw Marilyn in 1970 on the northside of Chicago in the Rush St. area, doing what she did best.
The reason she was named Mailbox Marilyn is because she carried self addressed stamped envelopes on her. When she would get paid for a date she would put the money in the envelope, and mail it to herself, this way if she got stuck up by a trick they wouldn't get her bank roll.
Marilyn is no taller than 4ft. tall and when she went she went too jail other whores would try too take her money, but the only one that got a hand on it was the postman.
She is no longer hooking, she is now panhandling at Washington and Wabash.
One of the Great Characters Of Chicago!
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Sundborn, a tiny village in the province of Dalarna, Sweden. This is where the Carl Larsson house is (Carl Larsson-gården).
This mailbox is outside a villa in my hometown. It's a wooden sculpture of a Lappman sitting waiting for mail to be stuffed in his backpack.
I want to make a set called "mailbox exhibition". This is the first model, I already posted two other ones which I will add. It's a challenge.
Mailbox modified to look like Army's CH-47 Chinook. Have plans. I put PVC pipe to keep night walkers from walking into blades. The other side has a BB hit in it. It looks so much like a bullet hit in the real thing that I didn't repair it. During Christmas, I hang a small decorated tree from the hook.
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Hola, mi nombre es Victor, soy de perales del rio, Getafe, Madrid.
Os presento lo que he realizado. Esta base cuadrada de madera reciclada es para ocultar el extractor del cuarto de baño que estaba colgando porque el hueco era mas grande que el extractor y este se caía.
Hice el trabajo hace un par de semanas, para realizarlo solo necesite tres tablas de un palet que me encontré tirado por la calle, lo recogí y lo lleve a casa, desmonte el palet para ver cuanto necesitaba y como podría solucionarlo sin gastarme un céntimo.
Con cola blanca y un sargento hice la unión de las tablas, una vez encoladas las corte a la medida y corte unas tiras del ancho de extractor para hacer el hueco y poder meterlo, para los agujeros que veis en las tablas, me fije en uno de los dibujos que tienen mis hijas y entre muchos observe una mariposa que hacia un recorrido en zig -zag, se me ocurrió realizar el recorrido de la mariposa con un taladro, uno a uno, poco a poco, con paciencia, con mucho cuidado para no romper el rastro que dejaba la mariposa y no romper las tablas. La finalidad de los agujeros es para que el extractor haga su cometido y extraiga los vapores del cuarto de baño.
Tarde en realizarlo un par de dias entre encolar las tablas, córtalas, pintarlas y atornillar al techo.
La mariposa es de contrachapado y tiene dos finalidades, 1) Decorativo y 2) Oculta el tornillo donde sujeta el tapaextractor con el techo.
Gracias a mi hijas me salio esta inspiración tan bonita y sobre todo !! funciona!!
Un saludo
I see a lot of odd mailboxes when I am out taking pictures and this one odd enough for me to turn around in my truck and go back to capture it. While I was taking pictures of this mailbox, the neighbor of the owner of the mailbox came across the street to talk to me. He said that the guy that lives there is an outboard motor repairman.
Driving through country sides Australia you come across these clusters of mailboxes. This one here with the added bonus that you get your feet wet (or washed) when you collect the mail.
Walking around in Buttfuck, Queens with the girls.
Even though she has a Lovepop in her hand, Leorah still wants to see if she can send herself in the mailbox. Esther is still trying to help shove her in.
Chavi is being Chavi, just as things should be.
I wonder where the post office would have sent her, if we were able to fit her in that mailbox.
One of the fine old New England traditions is to straighten or replace your mailbox after the winter. Usually, the box or the snowpile around it has been struck by numerous snowplows until it lists in one or more directions. Some are totally destroyed over the course of a rough winter. In fact, it's not unusual to see carboard boxes wearing house numbers perched atop snowpiles. While on my Thursday walk, I noticed that this group listen in all sorts of directions. The edge of a vertical telephone pole towards the right of the image is pretty much plumb.
The f-stop of this photo is 4.5, aperture is 1/25 and the iso is 200. This is a photo of an old mailbox in my neighborhood. I think the texture of paint makes it looks interesting because it shows that the mailbox is old. One of the challenges is to focus on the keyhole. I think the camera was too close to the subject so it couldn't focus on the entire keyhole. An improvement could be made by staying a little further from the subject so that the whole keyhole could be focused since it's the subject of the photo rather than the paint's texture next to it.
It's a Federal offense for mailboxes to run on the sidewalks, but sometimes, they still do. When they think you're not looking.
Photo taken for the Monthly Scavenger Hunt for February 2005 in the "your mailbox where you receive your valentines" category.