Built like a brick ****house. Mailbox, that is.
Bob_Luken
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I've been driving this route daily for years and recently saw a Hispanic man building a brick mailbox over the course of a few days and at great risk to his health due to the busy traffic. After its completion I noticed tiny shelves of half bricks had been included and were now proudly displaying a matching pair of Carona beer bottles, (Seemingly unopened bottles). Each day I would see the bottles and I began to notice that the sides were built with openings as well as the front. Today I decided to take a couple of photos. In those photos I saw "something" inside the front opening and it made me want to take an even closer look. I drove back by, and the traffic eased up enough to allow for a few more pics. It just kept getting better.
Last one enlarged for detail. Lots of detail.
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I'm guessing he got tired of the kids and their baseball bats.
Looks like a Jesus Malverde figurine.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesús_Malverde
That would explain the Benjamin behind the horse.
What about the
LUPE
V ZKES
E
?
Is the E at the bottom out of place or is it where it was intended to be?
I tried to look up both VEZKES
and ZKES
Not much found.
It looks like maybe a court case but I didn't come up with anything
Possibly??? Type of Descanso???
https://drivemexicomagazine.com/roadside-memorials-in-mexico/
Interrupted Journey
Another myth about descansos is what they represent. From a cultural and folkloric perspective, descansos mark an “interrupted journey,” a path (physical, spiritual or metaphorical) whose course has been altered (often by tragedy). Descansos do not necessarily “mark the place where a soul left this earth in a car crash”; very few mark where an accident victim actually died, unless he or she was killed instantly at the site. Far more often, victims die hours or days later in a hospital or in an ambulance on the way there.
A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.