I had a bunch of them cards, tops, bazooka,
tycobs for sure, Hank arron rookie card for both tops and bazooka, Kaline, and a hundred others. I had a bat atographed by Kaline, my dad had bricked his house.
the bat I broke hitting a home run, the cards I lost. we made a move to a new house, I got suckered in to doing the receiving at the new house, while they ran a grage sale at the old home, Ya, I got blind sited... thats where I lost my first million dollars...[pirate]
I was lucky to get a couple old records because I had them stuck in between my dads albums, an old record player.
I had an old reel to reel portable tape recorder, first of its kind with a copy of the first treasure island game show recorded on it.. the recorder would have been worth a couple bucks today, but the tape would be worth a small mint... "recorded history" any recordings from the 1950's and earlier have value. some more than others... news stories, programs, all that stuff...
I had a freind who in the past couple years just passed away, she was one of the writers for the lone ranger radio program.. I used to sit with her for hours and she would talk about her youth which was our history. Its one thing to study history in school, but when you can actualy talk to some one who was there and took part in it realy changes how you look at history...
I actualy met a half dozen people who was alive when Lincoln was president, One being my great grandmother...
remember all them tonka trucks from back in the day, now worth ten times what you paid for them..
I spent a lot of time visiting dump sites, you would be suprized what people would throw away, and I would find and drag back home,,, Ya I was then and still today a pack rat... but if I had my first pile of junk, bouy howdy could I cash in again and again and over and over... $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
After being acused of being a teen alcoholic I gave my dad a stern repremand about loosing all my valuable junk sold given away thrown away or other wise".. "because I wanted to get in to making wine as a hobby" "I came from a moon shine family so I was going against the grain sort to speak lol"
20 years later my dad dose a little remodling in his house and finds copies of comic books stashed in the wall. first adition dick tracy, superman and a couple others I never heard of from back in the late 30's to mid 40's. His new girl set him streight and made him keep them up to a couple years ago where he sold a couple copies for 3 thousand for 75 year old comics... no they werent mint, thay had aged,
tree doors down my neighbor dies and the family sells off the house for 30 thousand the new owner dose a little dry wall work and finds 50 thousand silver dollars packed in the walls. not counting the colectors value or silver value....
I bought a place three doors the other way and all I can find is water beatles..[
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Ya, you just never know what was worth a nickle would turn in to a mint... Old wash boards that still had the print on them. Heres a good one for ya, my grandpa and grandma had an old dirt floor cabin in tennessee. In that cabin there was an unknown treasure. It was a harth on top the fire place, Granted it was an old peice of wood that came from the property, what would have made it a treasure of monumental proportion was who had made it. It would seem that this little known politition from tenn in his earlier days did a little work in town before setting off on his jurny to becoming an american ledgeond. It was hand cut and fitted by none other than the folk giant Davie Crocket....
that cabin had remained in my family all the way up to the day after WWII ended. when they moved from tenn to michigan on the back of an old farm truck, a few belongings, blankets, the cloths they were wearing, a few eats. My family was dirt poor litteraly... but when you think of the things that was in their possesion that had any one known then what they know today any one could cash in.. sted of throwing it out the window with the bath water....
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