We went through my Gandma's place, and my Aunt and Uncle's place before the local VFD burned them for practice, in preparation for the land being cleared for a new ministorage place.
We didn't find anything in Grandma's place beyond what turned out to be some beautiful tongue and groove pine boards. A few trinkets left behind was all the other house left us....until it was almost too late......
After they burned the place there was about an 8x8 section of the living room floor that was carpeted, and didn't burn for some reason. What I found under the carpet was a layer of newspapers from the early 50's until the early 60's (just after JFK was killed). The papers had been lain in about 6 layers deep, I assume as padding and insulation for the floor in that room.
I managed to salvage more papers than I figured I would, but not nearly as many as I would have liked to. One I got part of that made me especially sick, was a full, two page ad for the new 1955 year model year Chevrolets, showing all of the different models available. I wound up with maybe 2/3 of the ad.
What's really interesting is to go back through the old papers and look at the movies playing in the theaters at the time, and seeing the old, now famous names, listed. Even better is looking at the way products were advertised, and the associated pricing.
One of these days I hope to get the time to go through everything and make up some wall hangings out of some of the old ads.
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