Decoding Those Zip Codes
Reader Kathy Bauman called us with the expanation for the “7” in the address of Muroff’s Hardware Store, featured last week in Memory Lane.
“I think it had something to do with how they divided the mail before there were ZIP codes,” she said. Kathy vividly remembers that her husband’s childhood address on Federal Street in Camden had a “5” after the word “Camden,” and she also distinctly…