The Post Office for 67567 is in the center of Pawnee Rock. The building originally was a bank. It had plate glass windows all along the front and the side, but they were often a vandalism target. Huge Cottonwood trees shaded the parking in front of these buildings when I was young; the cotton floated in mud puddles made by car tires.

The building to the right had a hairdresser and a laundromat. The garage next to it was Wilson Bros. where Willard Wilson had a welding shop. He kept the garage door open and there were always men standing around talking.

Pawnee Rock is my hometown. I grew up here during the '60s and '70s. In Barton County on U.S. Highway 56, it's 8 miles east of Larned, 12 miles west of Great Bend. The population is about 350 and was about 400 when I lived there.