Circle Pines

In keeping with my theme it looks like my first posts are the places I have lived. It may not be thrilling for all of you, but it is what started me down the path of collecting postal history. Above are two covers from the first day of service from the Circle Pines, Minnesota post office. The postal card on the bottom is of the backside and has the first postmasters signature. I have lived in Blaine for almost 30 years. The Blaine post office is a branch office of the Minneapolis post office. I have used the Circle Pines post office for the last 27 years, and for most of the time that I have lived in Blaine it was actually the post office that delivered my mail.
Circle Pines was a planned community that was developed shortly after World War II and  tried to become almost a mini socialist society. It did not work and most of the original homes became lower income homes.
My next posts promises to be someplace other than someplace where I have lived. The only other place I have lived was Shoreview which has never had an independent post office. Oh I forgot I did live in Minneapolis for five months. That does not count. That was  kind of a five month long party.