A little ranch house with an A-line roof and a carport is home to Branch 711 of Greensboro's Americal Postal Worker's Union, AFL-CIO. The building is located on 109 South Dudley Street, just south of of Market Street, between Bennett College and A&T State University. The house, itself, is reminiscent of many of its contemporaries built along Friendly Avenue.
The APWU can trace its roots back to the 1870's and the Railway Mail Mutual Benefit Association. Currently, it represents approximately 220,000 employees and the president is Cliff Guffey. Learn more about the organization here. Benjamin Franklin became America's first Postmaster General in 1775, before we were officially a country! Greensboro has its share of interesting postal workers, including one postal worker who always wears shorts.... and then there is the crew at Friendly Center.
We're sharing this with the folks at Weekend Reflection. This type of window makes great reflections!
Let us not forget that we still need the ordinary post. Everything can't be done electronically. There is a reflection in that too.
Posted by: RuneE | Saturday, January 08, 2011 at 11:40 AM
This reminds how certain of our newly-elected Congress folks plan to go after public service unions with vigor to destroy them!
Posted by: Jacob | Saturday, January 08, 2011 at 11:54 AM
Cool shot. I like the angle of the roof.
I think you chose the wrong Linkytools option because you shouldn't have to resize your photo. There are two options #1 link from file or #2 from web. You should choose #2 from web and you can link the photo directly from your blog.
Posted by: James | Saturday, January 08, 2011 at 01:38 PM
I just want to say how much I appreciate you finding these little out of the way gems and then doing research on their history/their story and sharing it! I find my mind expanding on GDP...
By the way, I'd like to ask your readers...Is the art of letter-writing lost forever? Remember the thrill of receiving a letter in the mail and then sitting down to read it. Re-reading it? Love live the post!
Posted by: Emily | Sunday, January 09, 2011 at 12:44 AM
I used to live in an area with lots of these litle post modern houses and I always wished our house had the triangluar windows (though I know getting window treatments that fit are difficult and expensive)
@Emily. I belong to Postcrossing, an online forum where we send (and receive) actual postcards around the world. not exactly a letter, but it is exciting to see a postcard in the mail (and you never know which country the next one will come from!)
Posted by: VioletSky | Sunday, January 09, 2011 at 07:18 AM
What a range of comments today! From Jacob's political thoughts. RudE and James comment on the photography. Violet Sky brings back her thoughts on the architecture. and YES! Emily is local!
Violet Sky: How fun to send and receive postcards! Thanks for posing the question about the post Emily!
It's going to be a good year after all!
Posted by: Greensboro Daily Photo | Sunday, January 09, 2011 at 09:43 AM