F or those of you paying attention to such things, one of Hyde Park's longtime fixtures has been missing since the end of February. After talking for several years of retiring, Postal Carrier Dave Bolin just up and left us, and the cheerful, elfin mailman with the red bandana is no longer a regular on neighborhood streets.
A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Dave had just moved to California, was only 19 when he took the post office exam, and was hired six weeks later on November 20, 1963. Except for a stint in Vietnam with the 1st Air Cavalry in 1966, he remained with the postal service until his retirement. He married Anna Tomlinson, a native Austinian whom he met at a church picnic at Fort Hood, and moved to Austin in 1971. From 1963 to 1983 Dave was a mail clerk, then switched to mail carrier and had the Hyde Park route from 1984 until he retired. The powers that be added and subtracted to his route many times, which resulted in virtually all of Hyde Park and the Hancock neighborhood between 38th and 45th being graced by Dave the Mailman (as my children knew him) at one time or another.
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