No, not
THAT Mecca... Rather,
Mecca, Indiana. population 335 (2010 census), and our fisrt stop on our recent covered bridge excursion. Click on images for larger versions...
Mecca General Store
Mecca General Store. Note the red arrow on the telephone pole on the right. This is where we picked up the
Red Loop on the covered bridge tour. As you can see, it wasn't a very pretty day, but we still had fun. It spit rain off and on, including while we were here.
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Hot Food - Cold Drink - Groceries - Candy - Ice Cream:
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Possible Past Post Office
OK, I don't really know if this was a post office. Google Maps streetview show this building boarded up in 2009, but with a couple of postal drop boxes outside. And the General Store (next door) had a post office sign in the window at that point. I found a web site that says the Mecca Post Office was established in 1894, and another that says it was closed in 3/2013. Seems like a reasonable guess...
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Overgrown Door:
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Just a random house as we drove around a block:
Again, click on images for larger versions...
3 comments:
My kind of exploring pictures!
Thanks for the photos, they brought back a lot of memories....We lived in Meccca 1976-1979. My sister attended the Mecca Elementary School and I went to Montezuma High School. We used to hang out at the Grocery Store after school. The post office was in the back of the General Store. We picked up our mail from little post boxes which all had combination locks. When you walked in the store it was a step back in the past. They still sold beans from large barrels, carried misc groceries and had lots of penny candy. My sister always had to had a grape pop from the old fashioned pop machine. Will never forget our time there...and yes we did survive the blizzard of 1978!. Tracey Troxell Lewis
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