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Posted: 19 Jul 2016

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El Centro former US Post Office (#0943)

El Centro former US Post Office (#0943)
This quite elegant building, in a very rough part of town (I was leary of leaving my car to take photos), is the former US Post Office. It was constructed in 1933/34 as a Public Works Administration (New Deal) project and closed in the 1970's. The style is described as Beaux Arts Classic; the building is one of two in Imperial County on the National Register of Historic Places, and (per sources) currently serves as a museum. Sources:
1) www.parks.ca.gov/pages/1073/files/el%20centro%20old%20post%20office.pdf
2) www.ivpressonline.com/news/local/a-look-into-the-iconic-el-centro-old-post-office/article_7a6d8b7b-2d58-557a-86cb-3134923d6631.html

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 Clint
Clint
I admit, I often find myself succumbing to fears bred into me by the arbiters of conventional wisdom about certain neighborhoods, and it's a struggle at times to decide which fears are dumb and which are rational. I look at our move to Oak Park and the subsequent need to travel through the West Side as exposure therapy ... though I still get nervous when I have the camera.
8 years ago.

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