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I was passing through a small Texas town yesterday and saw a bank. I decided to go in and ask for a box of dimes, but got rejected. As I pulled out of the parking lot, this is what I saw.

Thats a funny picture. Bonus point if anyone can find Penny Box!

As for asking for Dimes, I wouldnt bother with the $500 boxes. Most banks dont keep enough to hand those out to us unless you have ordered them. HOWEVER the banks near me love to get rid of customer rolls and those rolls are went you can find the good stuff. Watch out for rolls that seem usually short.

oh wow there's a town called old dime box or dime box in texas, east of Austin. That's awesome.

avidbrandy wrote:oh wow there's a town called old dime box or dime box in texas, east of Austin. That's awesome.

It was an hour or so east of Austin, so that must have been what the sign was refering to. I didn't know there was a town with that name.

I believe there are two towns--Old Dime Box and Dime Box. Had something with leaving dimes in the mailboxes years ago to pay postage. Maybe many years ago.

sparechange wrote:I believe there are two towns--Old Dime Box and Dime Box. Had something with leaving dimes in the mailboxes years ago to pay postage. Maybe many years ago.

Most of the residents of Dime Box now refer to their town as "Clad."

Could have been called "dime bag"

sparechange wrote:I believe there are two towns--Old Dime Box and Dime Box. Had something with leaving dimes in the mailboxes years ago to pay postage. Maybe many years ago.

"Until a government post office opened in 1877, settlers deposited outgoing mail and a dime in a small box inside Brown's office for a weekly delivery to Giddings. The Brown's Mill post office closed in December 1883. When it reopened the following spring, frequent confusion of Brown's Mill with Brownsville had caused the town to be renamed Dime Box."


http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/onli ... cles/hld25

hobo finds wrote:Could have been called "dime bag"

Yeah, but that idea went up in smoke.