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My uncle lives in an old house in Lodi. He took down some kitchen walls for a major remodel. Somehow, a bunch of letters from the 1920s had slipped between the cracks and got stuck in the wall. It was a bunch of heartwarming, innocent correspondence between the family members now living in California and the ones who stayed back in Oklahoma (or somewhere like that). Uncle chokes up every time he reads those letters.



Behind the wallpaper I removed was a marriage proposal to the previous owner, her relatives still live next door so I got to show them


We found 100 year old recipes from magazines for christmas cookies. It was funny/crazy to see steps like ‘whisk for 30 minutes’ before they had mechanical kitchen utilities.

Different times!


All I found was lots of empty bottles of “medicinal” alcohol.


Marshalls ?




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