Things that happen in your small town that you wonder if it happens everywhere?

[dstig1]

Make a right where the pile of rocks used to be... Actual direction given once to me...

 

[Gator6x4]

Or turn left a quarter mile after you pass the black and white milk cow. The only problem being is the farmer traded the black and white milk cow two months ago for a Guernsey milk cow.

 

[randyjs]

After my wife died this year I was going through some of her things. Found a sympathy card from 1968 when her sister died in a car accident. It was addressed "to the family that lost their daughter in car accident" with the city name on it. Small rural town of maybe 100 people.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I'm in a small town as well, my address is 4 numbers, 2 letters, and 3 numbers(#### FM ###). I was out of state one time recently and needed to rent a car. I was told that my address wasn't a normal (or real) address, but they accepted it after showing my drivers license.

In this town, we don't use addresses or even street names amongst the locals. We use reference points that may or may not still exist. One of which is the old Pony Express relay station, and there are cross roads or landmarks that have local names such as Liberty Hill.

In our small town, all though the streets were named, I don't recall any of the houses having numbers. We got our mail at a P.O. box in town, as did everyone else I knew, except maybe some of the very rural farm houses.

Footnote: Everyone knew where my grade school teacher lived; she died in the same house she was born in.

 

[bigtiller]

I used to hide the key to the tin shed, in the garage behind the blue phone that isn't blue anymore.

 

[Mulder]

My brother got mail from his friend after he went into the army, the letter had my mom and dad's name and the address was the dairy farm across from the airport

 

[Oaktree]

We were on RFD #3, and a number. I don’t recall what the number was.

Anywhere I ever lived that didn't have a street address was always RFD #2, never knew they used any other number.
The only time I ever saw a box # in addition to an RFD# was if there were multiple people with the same last name on a given route.

When did the RFD# give way to an actual address? I know it had something to do with 911, seem to recall it being some time in the 90s.

 

[ponytug]

Anywhere I ever lived that didn't have a street address was always RFD #2, never knew they used any other number.
The only time I ever saw a box # in addition to an RFD# was if there were multiple people with the same last name on a given route.

When did the RFD# give way to an actual address? I know it had something to do with 911, seem to recall it being some time in the 90s.

Around here the 2000 Census added GPS and created street addresses, but I don't know if the USPS uses them. We have both an RRD address and a street address, and the folks farther out only have the RRD. The county uses both. Go figure.

 

[Avenger]

Back home, we had that one diner near the center of town, where all the farmers met each and every morning for several hours to drink coffee and discuss life. Deals were made, advise was given, and gallons of coffee were consumed. If Farmer Fred didn't show up for a few days, someone would drive to his house to check on him.

That night, you could probably find the majority of the same farmers sitting on their favorite bar stool at the Moose Club drinking a beer and solving the worlds problems.

Its a wonder anything ever got done!

 

[stuckmotor]

Make a right where the pile of rocks used to be... Actual direction given once to me...

There use to be a pile of rocks near my childhood home called Split Rock. They were removed over sixty years ago when the road was paved. There aren't many of us left who can understand directions that tell which way to turn at Split Rock.