"George E. Cawthon" wrote in message
Seems strange that no one mentioned that numbers on the curb are useless.
Emergency people aren't looking at the curb, and any numbers will be
dirty, covered up, or cars parked where you can't read them.

Not always. In many big cities there is no parking allowed on one side or
small streets. Having been employed in my teenaged years delivering
groceries, it was common to use the curb numbers. They were in a consistent
place, unlike some house numbers on doors, next to doors, over door, on mail
boxes, on light fixtures, etc.

In the summer, it was a way for the derelicts of making a few bucks. They
would paint the numbers and ask for donations.