Photo gallery: Old Vail Post Office damaged in storm
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The historic adobe Old Vail Post Office lost most of its roof during a severe monsoon storm on July 4.
Gustavo Duarte throws some of the pieces of the tin roof off the Old Vail Post Office on Tuesday July 5, 2011. The historic adobe structure was severely damaged after a microburst due to a monsoon storm on July 4.
- Benjie Sanders/Arizona Daily Star
Workers are remove pieces of the tin roof after a microburst on July 4 destroyed most of the roof of the historic Old Vail Post Office.
- Benjie Sanders/Arizona Daily Star
Gustavo Duarte tosses down some of the pieces of the tin roof off the Old Vail Post Office on July 5, 2011, after a monsoon storm damaged the roof on July 4.
- Benjie Sanders/Arizona Daily Star
Postmaster Otto Schley, builder of the Vail Store and Post Office in 1908. Courtesy Vail Preservation Society
The ceiling is made of 1"X10" boards salvaged from RR shipping crates. This one is marked Vail, A.T. (Vail, Arizona Territory). Courtesy Vail Preservation Society
Postmistress Mary Jane Warner waits on a postal customer at the Vail Post Office, ca 1962. Courtesy Vail Preservation Society
Vail, Ariz., Store and Post Office, ca 1935. Courtesy Vail Preservation Society
Postmistress Mary Jane Warner's car is parked in front of the Vail, Ariz., Post Office ca. 1940. Courtesy the Vail Preservation Society
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