I am able to remember four different Birmingham Post Offices. My earliest recollection is of the one which was located on the west side of Woodward about half way between Maple and Willits.

After moving from the Maple-Pierce intersection, the Post Office was operated in a spot directly below the pointing finger behind the electric pole which appears to sprout from the roof of a passing auto. It was in the south half of a two store building constructed by Elmer Huston. It shared the striped awning with STROUP'S MARKET, primarily a butcher shop, which later moved to the Wabeek Building on West Maple.

Next to STROUP'S, in another Huston Building, the one with the peaked roof, was the VARIETY SHOP. As a youngster I was very much intrigued by this store because it sold toys. As a matter of fact, I was so young at the time that I called it THE BRIGHTY SHOP, which also later moved to the Wabeek Building.

The store to the far right appears to be vacant, since it bears no sign. This was to become the first part of MULHOLLAND'S DRY GOODS STORE which later occupied all four sections of the two Huston Buildings.

Please don't confuse the Huston Buildings with HUSTON'S HARDWARE STORE which was always located in a structure put up by Charles Schlaack in the early 1900's.

The next Post Office, shown above, opened in the late 1920's and was situated on the east side of Woodward, north of Oakland, about a third of the way down the hill toward Euclid. The northern portion of the building was occupied by the U.S. Government, while the southern section, contained Beck Cleaners.

In late 1939 and early 1940 a new Post Office was built at the corner of Martin and Bates. Here, Mayor John Martz on the left, and Michigan's Governor Luren D. Dickinson are shown during ceremonies celebrating the completion of the new facility.