Service Box Attached To Streetlight by qwerty uiop, Sean Mahan
May 28th, 2006 3:31 AM / Location: 37.771030,-122.4318
I got a box - about 12"x20"x12", and with two plexiglass sides - from a garage sale for a couple bucks. Seemed like it was meant for displaying a signed football or something like that. Anyway, I painted it, screwed on some metal brackets I had lying around (to keep the door from falling out), and we stenciled "Take Something / Leave Something" on it. Hopefully, it'll be put to good and servicable use. We left a couple stenciled SF0 stickers, some SF0 postcards (pre-addressed and stamped), one of the "Kill Your Browser" stickers I got from Slim a while back, a notepad, a pen, and a bunch of flowers. It's at Steiner and Waller, across Steiner from the "Bean There" cafe, screwed into a streetlight/electrical post. The blurry B&W photos were taken with the modified camera, which apparently hasn't gotten any better at focusing during a month or two of disuse.
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again...i pass this everyday and will check up on it
6/1/06 - around 11am i left for work with my camera. I saw a guy looking at the box and tried to get a picture but i was too slow and he walked away. but then he came back and put this parrot in there and took a CD. he let me take some pics. 
after he left i looked in the box. 
i put some please love back stickers in. 
this is just fabulous. i'd vote but my vote button has flown the proverbial coop.
Sadly, no. The original box was made for sitting on a mantel, not braving the San Francisco elements. It slowly came apart - I went back once after a week or two and screwed part of it back together, but the next time a couple sides were on the ground, so I took it down (and saved one of the sides, which had been nicely decorated with political stickers).
A few months later, it was replaced at that corner by this - which only lasted a few days (though the back plate of wood is still there, tagged up).
Sam and I saw it a couple days ago and it's covered in stamps of some kind.
Day One found much of the original stuff in there (including some now limp flowers), with the addition of such excellent items as a stick of gum, a nautical-looking necklace, a bundle of pens (including some sharpies!), an empty beer bottle (removed), a book or two, a matchbox, and a (still fully packaged) toothbrush.