San Diego Post Office, downtown
The reliefs on the top of the buildings are also a WPA project, "The Transportation of the Mail" by Archibald Garner.
Description
The old Main Post Office for San Diego, now the Downtown Station post office, was constructed with Treasury Department funds and houses Archibald Garner’s 1937 sculpture, “Transportation of the Mail,” produced under the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
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plaque, San Diego Post Office, downtown
plaque, San Diego Post Office, downtown
plaque, San Diego Post Office, downtown
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San Diego Post Office, plaque
Source notes
Cornerstone
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I miss the old downtown post office. I started there in 1963 as a Christmas casual and again in 1964 as a Christmas casual. I started my permenant career there in Nov 1965 and am still working as a clerk, now at the Midway Annex. we moved to twinco up on Ruffin Rd and Clairmont Mesa Blvd when there was nothing much out there but a stable next door and snakes etc in the parking lot, then we moved to Midway P&DC.
Before his promotion to Station Manager, my father Terence B McArron, was in charge of the stamp stock for all of San Diego county and worked here at the main office back in the 1960s. I followed in his foot steps and served in the US Postal Service for 33 years.