I took a walk through the Urbandale neighborhood this evening. The subdivision was developed in the teens on the site of a former race track. It’s a careworn district, harmed over the years by redlining and frequent flooding. Many derelict properties ended up being demolished, resulting in it being repopulated with a lot of urban farms, but at dusk and under snow it just looked desolate. I didn’t find many leftover Christmas lights.

I did find this very worn 1925 stamp on the west side of South Fairview Avenue between Elizabeth and Harton. (Harton, by the way, is a real oddity: a dirt road, in the city!) I was excited to make out the 1925 date, then a little dismayed to work out (with the help of some different flashlight angles while kneeling down and confusing any watching neighbors) that it is another one of those mysterious E. Schullberger stamps. At least, that’s been my best guess as to how to read the name in the past, and this one isn’t any easier to read than the ones I’ve found before, more’s the pity. Update 5/9/21: I now believe this to be E. Schneeberger.