Salem - 97301-0643
Hollywood - When you say Hollywood, CA I think movie stars, but when you say Hollywood, OR I'll think homeless people living in a rat-trap looking RV that is parked off frame to the right. (12/8/24)
Salem - 97301-2397
Salem Hollywood DCU - The last of the seven Salem Post Offices. Time to head north and home. (12/8/24)
Salem - 97301-3601
Pringle Park Plaza - The sun was up enough now, but mostly because I had breakfast between post office #2 of the day and this one. (12/8/24)
Salem - 97301-5048
Salem - I set the alarm for 7:00 AM, but I woke up at quarter to six, so I got up and got going. This is Salem's main Post Office and 1 of 4 with the Zip Code of 97301. (12/8/24)
Salem - 97302
Vista Station - It was still dark for this Post Office and I cold have used the other photo I took, but I liked being able to put the sign in the shot. (12/8/24)
Salem - 97304
West Salem - This post office was right on the other side of the Willamette River, so it was a quick bridge crossing back and forth. (12/8/24)
Salem - 97305
Brooks - Based on its location I wouldn't have guessed that this was a Salem post office. (12/7/24)
Sandy - 97055
Sandy - The town is named for the Sandy River that flows nearby. Which is also the case of the road that I live on, Sandy Boulevard. (11/17/24)
Scappoose - 97056
Scappoose - This Post Office was located on a very busy US30 so this angle was my only option to get a photo. (11/03/24)
Scio - 97374
Scio - The town was named by one of the original residents, William McKinney. He used the name of his former home, Scio, Ohio. The Ohio village is, in turn, named for a Greek island called Chios; the Italian version of the name is Scio. (7/12/25)
Scotts Mills - 97375
Scotts Mills - The city takes its name from the sawmill and flour mill on Butte Creek that were owned by Robert Scott and Thomas Scott. (3/9/25)
Seaside - 97138-4100
Gearhart - The red car must be the Postmaster's and I tried waiting out the man who got out of that black SUV, but gave up. (3/22/25)
Seaside - 97138-5733
Seaside - Jeep, Jeep, Ram, Miata. (3/22/25)
Selma - 97538
Selma - Actor John Wayne used to visit the Deer Creek Ranch one mile west of Selma back in the 70's. He grew fond of the area after filming the movie Rooster Cogburn along the Rogue River. (10/05/21)
Shady Cove - 97539
Shady CoveThe town sits along side the Rouge River and after the mill was lost to a flood in 1964 it turned to the tourist trades of rafting and year-round fishing for survival. (9/82023)
Shaniko - 97057
Shaniko - Less than 10 miles north of Antelope, this is for intents and for all purposes a ghost town too. (07/01/23)
Shedd - 97377
Shedd - A small town of a couple hundred souls that is home to the Boston Flour Mill, Oregon's oldest continuously operating water-powered mill. (2/6/25)
Sheridan - 97378
Sheridan - Sheridan counts the prison population of the Federal Correctional Institution as part of the city's official population. (7/12/25)
Sherwood - 97140
Sherwood - This was taken on my way to dropping off the Miata to be wrapped in bright blue vinyl. (11/18/24)
Siletz - 97380
Siletz - Only 6 miles inland from the coast this small town of a thousand or so is located next to the Siletz Reservation and is the site of the annual Nesika Illahee Pow Wow in August. (8/23/25)
Silver Lake - 97638
Silver Lake - Once again named for a lake that no longer exists like a lot of these towns in the "Oregon Outback." (9/18/23)
Silverton - 97381
Silverton - This is the first shakedown trip in the new to me Miata and what better way to show what it is for. (3/9/25)
Sisters - 97759
Sisters - This is a new post office building made to look like it is a hundred and 50 years old, similar to the historic buildings downtown. The illusion is totally wasted because every other building in a 2-mile radius is brand spanking new. Also this Post Office picture is the one that got me over the mid-point of the 391 post offices in the state. (4/6/25)
Sprague River - 97639
Sprague River - No one really passes through Sprague River, you kind of have to want to get there. Today we did. It is about 40 miles away from home and the drive is beautiful. (07/23/22)
Spray - 97874
Spray I think I need to take a few weeks off on this post office journey, all these towns are starting to run together... (9/1/25)
Springfield - 97475
Springfield Gateway Postal - This was tricky one to get into the parking lot. Its early Sunday morning and the cars to the left must be private contract delivery folks for Amazon. (2/6/25)
Springfield - 97477
Springfield - The main post office right downtown. (2/5/25)
Springfield - 97478
Springfield DCU - They left me a nice little parking spot right up front. (2/5/25)
Stanfield - 97875
Stanfield - Just as I parked that white SUV pulled in. I waited patiently until the woman was inside before clicking the shutter. I you look closely at the door, she is still not in. (8/17/25)
Stayton - 97383
Stayton - Instead of my usual, standing across the street and clicking away, I backed off a bit to get the mural in the photo. (7/12/25)
Sublimity - 97385
Sublimity - The blue lettering on the building goes sublimely with the blue of the Miata. (7/12/25)
Summer Lake - 97640
Summer Lake - The lake itself is nothing but a wildlife refuge with some sporadic marshy areas. I think the small pond behind the Lodge has more water in it than what’s in the refuge. (9/18/2023)
Sunriver - 97707
Sunriver - This is another of the trying to wait out a customer to get a clean photo. In the end I modified my phot taking location to hide them. There is a car hidden behind the pine tree on the left. (4/6/25)
Sutherlin- 97479
Sutherlin - It was a Monday so I expected a few cars or people in some shots, but I was going to let this woman get in her car and then retake the shot. Unfortunately, right then, a big ol' pickup up truck with a camper shell parked right next to me. You could hardly so the building anymore. (8/25/25)
Sweet Home - 97386
Sweet Home - The 2018 Capitol Christmas Tree, which comes from a different national forest every year, was acquired by the Sweet Home Ranger District for that year. (2/19/25)
Talent - 97540
Talent - Named for A. P. Tallent, an East Tennessee native who settled in Oregon in the 1870s. (10/03/21)
Tangent - 97389
Tangent - This was the site of a railway station on the Southern Pacific line south of Albany. Its name referred to a straight stretch of the line with no curves for more than 20 miles. (2/6/25)
Tenmile - 97481
Tenmile - An interesting building with a Studebaker front end perched on the roof. We had a nice little chat with the fellow in the yellow pick-up about car color and parking lots. (10/04/21)
Terrebonne - 97760
Terrebonne - The town is the gateway to Smith Rock State Park that is the birthplace of sport climbing in the United States. The park has nearly 2,000 routes adorning its rock walls. (07/06/22)
The Dalles - 97058
The Dalles - This is a fairly new looking Post Office building and sure enough, when you look right across the street you can see the old more stately looking building that it was. It now is the offices of AmeriTitle. (07/02/22)
Tidewater - 97390
Tidewater - I'm not sure who the customers are for this post office. It seemed to have been plopped down in the middle of nowhere. Yet after taking the photo of the place while sitting in the GTI checking if I had a usable image, a car pulled in next to me and went inside to mail a letter. (3/2/26)
Tillamook - 97141-2441
Tillamook - Because it was early Sunday, there were quite a few parking spots. (10/19/25)
Tillamook - 97141-9467
Tillamook - I almost stayed home because of the predicted rainy coast weather, but this was the only one of the nine that it was actually raining when I was photographing it. (10/19/25)
Tiller - 97484
Tiller - Truth be told I didn't see much other than 3 or 4 ranches along this road, how it warrants a Post Office I'll never know. (8/25/25)