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<p>[QUOTE="gregsglass, post: 398233, member: 78"]Hi,</p><p> Sometimes not hoarders. In the 1960s I was hiking down some abandoned railroad tracks and came upon a house which was empty since the late 1930s. I climbed through a smashed window. Who ever lived there fled one night and everything was untouched since then. I came back with a wagon and loaded it up with 75 pieces of depression glass, dozens of canning jars etc. I made plans to return the following weekend since I had to go to work. The furniture was all black horse hair covering.</p><p>I never made it into the basement. On Sat when I returned a bull dozer was smashing the house into pieces. I always wondered if German spies were living there. I tried to check on the city records for the address but it just said that taxes were not paid since July 1938. The records did not contain any names just the lot an block number of the property.</p><p>greg[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gregsglass, post: 398233, member: 78"]Hi, Sometimes not hoarders. In the 1960s I was hiking down some abandoned railroad tracks and came upon a house which was empty since the late 1930s. I climbed through a smashed window. Who ever lived there fled one night and everything was untouched since then. I came back with a wagon and loaded it up with 75 pieces of depression glass, dozens of canning jars etc. I made plans to return the following weekend since I had to go to work. The furniture was all black horse hair covering. I never made it into the basement. On Sat when I returned a bull dozer was smashing the house into pieces. I always wondered if German spies were living there. I tried to check on the city records for the address but it just said that taxes were not paid since July 1938. The records did not contain any names just the lot an block number of the property. greg[/QUOTE]
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