Neat, but I only rarely save stuff like that. I found something similar in 1989 or 1990 when I went to look at the apartment I later moved into. The person who lived there before me had recently passed away and they were still cleaning and prepping the apartment for a new renter. I understood that he was well into his 90s when he passed on and had lived in that apartment for at least 25 years.
On the street outside, there was a box of junk for the trash collector ... as I walked by, I noticed an old book ... "The Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror", published in 1906, chronicling the days of and following the SF earthquake in 1906 ... sitting on top of the pile. Since it was trash, I saw nothing wrong with grabbing it just in case it would prove interesting reading. When I got home and opened it, a carefully folded up, very thin old newspaper dropped out onto my lap. It appears to be an original copy of the four page newspaper published the day after the 1906 'quake on the Oakland presses: http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW7/eq.htm There's a chance it could be a reprint made much later but I see nothing on it to indicate that. All in all, quite an interesting piece of history to happen upon. (I still have the book and the paper. I wonder if they're worth anything.) Godfrey On Jan 25, 2007, at 11:12 AM, William Robb wrote: > I found this in a condominium that I am helping renovate > http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/nytimes/nytimes.html > Anyway, It's up for grabs, providing it is going to a good home. > > So, interested parties can email me offlist, telling me why they > think they > should get it, in 200 words or less. > As a goodwill gesture, I will send it to the winner, absolutely free. > I suppose it's possible that every home in the USA has one, in > which case it > will heat my shed for an afternoon. > > William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
