Gas City Indiana Post Office

ADDRESS: 123 N. 2nd St., Gas City, Indiana 46933
ARTIST: William A. Dolwick
TITLE: Gas City in Boom Days
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas (mural)
STATUS: The Gas City post office is still an active, operating facility, and the mural can be viewed by interested members of the public. It resides in the lobby on a wall above the postmaster’s door.
YEAR: 1937

What a lovely visit, lucky me there was an older lady who chatted me up. We talked for what seemed like a good 15 or 20 minutes. I learned all about her life and a few of her 7 siblings. I learned about her parents moving to Alaska and how they moved back to Indiana when they were seniors and needed more assistance. Is hard to believe I learned so much about one person in such a short amount of time.

However, I also imagine that’s what life was like and how folks socialized years ago. It was kind of fitting, to talking in the lobby of this great building, observing the wonderful mural and catching up with the locals.

Kudos to the postmaster and staff for taking such wonderful care of the building.

David W. Gates Jr.