Where these go is a tour of ordinary Youngstown rather than of its landmarks. The north side around Wick Park and the Wick Avenue hill, Brier Hill and Smoky Hollow where the Italian street memory is still intact and the pizza argument is genuinely local, the east side out toward Lincoln Knolls, the south side along Market toward Mill Creek Park and the old Idora grounds, the west side through Schenley and Cornersburg. Then the ring: Boardman and Poland driveways, Canfield's streets off the green, Austintown's subdivisions, and the village grids of Struthers, Campbell, Girard, Hubbard and Lowellville, where a good number of residents have lived on the same block since the mills were running. The city's housing is old and much of it is two-family, so two practical notes carry across all of it: one doorbell frequently serves two households, and a front porch is six steps up and fully exposed. Name the unit, add a mobile number, and this becomes the simplest delivery in the market.
Some of the best-aimed deliveries in this category are not to a home at all. A nurses' station at St. Elizabeth on Belmont Avenue or at the Boardman campus — flowers addressed to a unit rather than a patient, for a staff that never gets them — lands harder than most gifts people spend more on. A school main office or a teacher's building office, where somebody is always at the desk. A parish office, a funeral home's front office in the week after a hard service, a library branch, a nonprofit storefront, a fire station. The downtown crowd: the Federal Street offices, the Mahoning County courthouse block, the Youngstown Business Incubator and the small-firm floors that keep the core occupied. And the valley's other kind of workplace — the Boardman office suites along US-224, the Mahoning Avenue belt in Austintown, the Niles and Warren workplaces near the Eastwood complex. For any of these, give a department and a name; a bouquet addressed only to a building gets set down at a security desk and forgotten.