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<p>[QUOTE="Aquitaine, post: 4121757, member: 602"]And some of it kind of fun.....first a bit of history...back in 1970 DH and I started a part time Office Cleaning business...with part time mostly a few college students for employees....and ran it for 21 years!! Hard work and fun....we both had our full time jobs as well, so we didn't start until like 6:00p.m. when the building closed (it was primarily one Office and it's branches we cleaned!) Most trash went into an on-site incinerator, but the two "books-if one can call them that" we have....which are falling apart and tender as butter....are kind of interesting.....was hard to get ANY kind of images out of them.....They are from slightly pre-WWI and Hartford & Springfield, CT Monthly newspaper records for just a couple a months!! HUGE...approx. 17" x 23 1/2" newspaper books- 1913 & 1914....DH wanted to read them so brought them home....they were in TERRIBLE condition then, I believe ergo the reason for throwing them out!! So, 50 years later, you can imagine, being stored in a shed, the condition of them now!!! (<u><b>HE</b></u> doesn't throw much away!) BUT they're headed for the trash barrel very soon now, just wanted to post a few interesting pics....on YET ANOTHER gloomy day.....at least around here........</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]330833[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]330834[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]330835[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]330836[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]330838[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]330839[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]330841[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]330845[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Aquitaine, post: 4121757, member: 602"]And some of it kind of fun.....first a bit of history...back in 1970 DH and I started a part time Office Cleaning business...with part time mostly a few college students for employees....and ran it for 21 years!! Hard work and fun....we both had our full time jobs as well, so we didn't start until like 6:00p.m. when the building closed (it was primarily one Office and it's branches we cleaned!) Most trash went into an on-site incinerator, but the two "books-if one can call them that" we have....which are falling apart and tender as butter....are kind of interesting.....was hard to get ANY kind of images out of them.....They are from slightly pre-WWI and Hartford & Springfield, CT Monthly newspaper records for just a couple a months!! HUGE...approx. 17" x 23 1/2" newspaper books- 1913 & 1914....DH wanted to read them so brought them home....they were in TERRIBLE condition then, I believe ergo the reason for throwing them out!! So, 50 years later, you can imagine, being stored in a shed, the condition of them now!!! ([U][B]HE[/B][/U] doesn't throw much away!) BUT they're headed for the trash barrel very soon now, just wanted to post a few interesting pics....on YET ANOTHER gloomy day.....at least around here........ [CENTER][ATTACH=full]330833[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]330834[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]330835[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]330836[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]330838[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]330839[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]330841[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]330845[/ATTACH][/CENTER][/QUOTE]
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