Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Kitchen Remodel - Discovering History







During our tear out of the last floor level in the kitchen we discovered an intact newspaper from November 7th, 1933. In the old days if they needed an eigth or sixteenth they would just use the newspaper as a shim. That appears to be what they did here. November 7th, 1933 was election day. They were voting to end prohibition. Here are some pictures of that paper. We hope to frame it and hang it in the new kitchen. By the way, you could get a pack of smokes for .15 cents and a new toaster for .69 cents, but if you wanted a cord on that toaster it was .20 cents more.....



1 comment:

Irma said...

What a great find!!! If only those walls and floors could talk -great stories I'm sure. Who would have thought there were sooo many layers! Guess that means many changes in the past for that area.