Here is this cool mailbox still up in one of our LBLUS.com counties and it looks as if the mailbox is practically new. It has been some time since a daily Nashville Banner was delivered anywhere. The Banner stopped publishing in 1998. So the box has been up since then, I would guess. The Banner was a really good newspaper. For years Nashville was one of the last major cities with two competing daily newspapers, ‘The Banner’ and ‘The Tennessean.’ Those were the golden days of newspapers or, probably, the last of the golden days of newspapers. I thought then it was a grim omen when The Tennessean bought The Banner and then some time later, the company stopped publishing The Banner. I actually worked for The Nashville Banner for a short as a regional correspondent. I got a couple of stories on the front page of The Banner during the search and discovery of the remains of Kathy Nishiyama. Still waiting for The Banner. I would like to read one now.
