ldm
I spent most of the week in Vallejo CA meeting with a few guys that wanted to buy 1960's forward vintage plumbing supplies and fixtures left over from a long ago family retail / contracting operation. Sold 150 various old toilet tank lids many colors, 150 old toilet seats many colors, 800 stems, 5 obsolete one piece pink and marble toilets from the 60's, a couple corner toilets (triangle tanks), 250 obsolete repair parts, 150 plus vintage catalogues from various mfg's. All sold cheap to move them out without putting labor on the job. Also went thru 500 lbs of old paper work that went to the shredders (got bids from .25 cents a lb to .79 cents a lb to shred) and another 2,500 lbs of recycle paper...still have another 2,000 lbs or so to go of files. I went thru the files by hand to take a trip down memory lane and be sure the right doc's got shredded.
Among the things I learned were that my parents signed a $150.00 contract in 1959 with two doctors to be paid at $15.00 per month to treat my brother for an unstated reason...the whole contract was on a post card size agreement. A 1960 tax audit that requested proof us three kids were legally my parents and wanting to know what the $125.00 to WF and Pearl (Grandparents) was for and a demand for an additional $23.00 in tax. The prize find was in the small attic...our silver aluminum christmas tree from the 1950's...the ancients will recall the 2 piece wood posts with the holes drilled in at the angle and the silver limbs (think stiff tinsel) with the pom pom ends...still had the original round cardboard slips on the pom pom ends...and ....wait for it....the original lamp with the rotating color disc that made the tree change colors...that find sat me down for a bit. It will take several trips and I am sure memories to get thru that 8,000 SF building.
One of the guys was from NYC...we were talking shop and he thought there were too many L-Mats, Pizza places, and Hot Dog vendors in NYC to make good economic sense. Les
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