Creston Post Office, 1952
Creston Postoffice Boasts 100-Year-Old Mail Box Unit
Pictured above is Postmaster Floyd (Swede) Vinnedge, standing beside the one hundred year old mail box unit which has 96 boxes on each side of the stamp window. Manufactured by Yale & Towne of Stanford, Conn., the unit was the first one installed in the early Cedar Lake post office. All the call boxes are in use today and business has picked up to the point where "Swede's" daughter, Miss Nancy Ann, has been appointed assistant postmistress to help handle the mail.The boxes in this old unit have a glass panel in front instead of a door with a combination lock, which enables patrons to see whether or not they have mail before calling the postmaster from other duties in his general store to get it for them. There's usually mail to hand out, however, and in his 23 years of walking back and forth in the store, "Swede" estimates that he's walked a good many hundreds of miles/
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Photo and caption from the July 3, 1952, Lowell Tribune.
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