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Cima Post Office, RIP
By Chris Clarke on 2009 07 04 at 5:17:21 pm | 1 commentAn era has ended: The Cima, California Post Office — Zip Code 92323 — has closed down permanently.
The Cima PO was established in 1904, mainly to serve the railroad workers and ranchers in the area. It was about the funkiest public service
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Letters from the desert: The kind of place I live
By Chris Clarke on 2008 10 16 at 6:19:38 pm | 0 commentsOn my way to a hike today (and more on that to come) I stopped at the Cima, CA post office. (My mail arrives there at PO Box 43, 92323: send a letter!)
There was a roadrunner in the parking lot when I got there.
I left and went on my hike (and
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Letters from the desert: Jarhead
By Chris Clarke on 2008 10 15 at 12:23:45 am | 0 commentsAt the wheel on Saturday afternoon, The Raven flinched. “What the…?” A low black sports car came out of nowhere behind us on Kelbaker Road, passed us doing at least 40 miles per hour more than our sedate 60 or so, and straddled the center line as
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Letters from the desert: Tortious Conduct
By Chris Clarke on 2008 09 17 at 4:55:06 pm | 0 commentsThunderstorms rolled in this morning, one or more from each of the four directions, and the smell of wet creosote was thick on the wind.
I decided to go get my mail. This involves about a forty=mile round trip. My mail tends to pile up in the box
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