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I just heard a promo for “Ripleys believe it or not…” t.v. show airing on Wed. nite the 21st of Nov. On the show is a segment about some remodelers who found a skeleton in the chimney of a building. Apparently he was a thief who got stuck 15 years ago. All of us have stories of amazing, wierd, comical and valuable finds from old projects and jobs. Here’s my favorite: An old painter I knew found hundreds of pieces of old currency behind a stove on a job. He spent them at face value at his favorite watering hole!
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Sounds like a typical painter; A thief, an idiot and a drunk!
*So far my crawl space has yielded up a bunch of stubs of carbons from old arc lamps. It appears to have been used as a night exterior location for a movie before the building was built. There was also evidence of a camp fire kindled with a newspaper from May of 1926. The building permit was dated July 10, 1926, which turns out to have been a Saturday.-- J.S.
*We were rehabing an old tavern in the city and the mud floor basement needed to be dug out and a concrete floor poured.So we started at one end and discovered a trap door under a few inches of dirt and upon opening the old door, found a small, forgotten sub-cellar that was use to hide booze during the prohibition. And there was still cases of booze stored away!We figured the "hard stuff" got forgotten with the repeal of prohibition with the peoples taste for beer rekindled.In any event, we split the stash. For some reason, all the white booze, vodka, gin, had all gone bad. All the brown booze, the whisky, scotch, brandy was OK. Took a long time to finish digging out that basement.......
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I just heard a promo for "Ripleys believe it or not..." t.v. show airing on Wed. nite the 21st of Nov. On the show is a segment about some remodelers who found a skeleton in the chimney of a building. Apparently he was a thief who got stuck 15 years ago. All of us have stories of amazing, wierd, comical and valuable finds from old projects and jobs. Here's my favorite: An old painter I knew found hundreds of pieces of old currency behind a stove on a job. He spent them at face value at his favorite watering hole!