[400 4spd.]

What interesting stuff have you discovered in attics?
My son-in-law is in the heating and air business. This week he was in the attic of a 1920's era house and had to work around this.

[Judge-1969]

Originally Posted by 400 4spd.

What interesting stuff have you discovered in attics?
My son-in-law is in the heating and air business. This week he was in the attic of a 1920's era house and had to work around this.

Are those prototypes for the Christmas Story Leg Lamps? LOL

[77 TRASHCAN]

The "no" legged man in an a$$ kick' contest?

[dataway]

Left over from WWI when a LOT of people came home needing those.

[salem1912]

It's empty!

[hobbygto65]

Call the Pickers, they'll buy them.��

[Keith Seymore]

We were in Atlanta over the weekend and visited an antebellum plantation.

Both of the original sons enlisted in the Confederate army; one saw action and returned home at the end of the war unharmed.

The older son was a telegraph operator but did not see combat. He fled to Valdosta during Sherman's March to the Sea and contracted TB, which morphed into dysentery, which finished him off. Before dying he sent a trunk home, for safekeeping, with some personal items.

The family was so distraught that they never opened that truck. It sat in their attic from April of 1865 until 1986 or so when the house was remodeled. Roughly 120 years it was untouched.

The contents were pretty unassuming - clothing, mostly, and a microscope. But - that was a long time.

K

[Keith Seymore]

In keeping with the above - that family had a reputation for never throwing anything away.

One of the items on display was the younger son's removed appendix which was found in the attic in a small glass bottle.

I thought it was funny that it was still around since it wasn't any good when it was inside his body, either. But understandable as he was a medical doctor.

K

[lemansboy70]

Many years ago, I was installing a home stereo system in an older home that belonged to a doctor. I went up to the attic to run some wires when I stumbled upon a baby-sized coffin. REALLY creeped me out! Who keeps a coffin in the attic???

[The Boss]

Went and looked at a foreclosure recently, attic had a pull down stair, up there was one 4' wide strip of plywood that went the length of the attic with a wooden chair at the end facing the outside wall of the house. Chair had been there a while, marks on the floor where somebody had been swinging their feet. Cruel.

[marxjunk]

dude..those things sell like crazy on ebay..i mean crazy nuts,..the steam-punks want them..the weirdo goths want them..the MD people want them..and on and on...big freakin' money...

[Jack Blum]

My old house in Whittier CA had a few Blatz beer cans (open with a church key era) in the corner by the chimney. Still have one of the un-crushed ones in a box somewhere...probably in the attic!

[Chris65LeMans]

I followed my nose to a dead rat in my attic last weekend.

I've never lived in a house where I needed to go in the attic until moving into my current house. The sick bastards that put in the HVAC system put the filter in the attic, with the entrance in my wife's closet - so I have to crawl up there twice a year. (I think the part about having to crawl through my wife's closet is the worst.)

[hurryinhoosier62]

Originally Posted by The Boss

Went and looked at a foreclosure recently, attic had a pull down stair, up there was one 4' wide strip of plywood that went the length of the attic with a wooden chair at the end facing the outside wall of the house. Chair had been there a while, marks on the floor where somebody had been swinging their feet. Cruel.

Someone’s twisted idea of punishment.

[Stuart]

I found a few things in my 100 year old attic but nothing that odd - a few leaded glass doors from a built in china cabinet that had been removed decades ago, an antique mirror and some other odds and ends. I did once find an antique Gluek beer bottle buried next to the foundation, I figured it must of been left over from one of the original carpenter's lunches. I also found a 1960s Playboy magazine hidden on top of the furnace, probably left there by one of the sons of a previous owner.

[skullbucket]

The attic at my mothers has my old toys from the 70s in it, one day i'll clean it out.

[Mister Pontiac]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

I thought it was funny that it was still around since it wasn't any good when it was inside his body, either. But understandable as he was a medical doctor.
K

Actually Keith, modern medicine has finally figured out that the appendix does indeed have a function in our body.

"For years now, researchers have been searching for a possible function of the human appendix, and the leading hypothesis is that it’s a haven for 'good' intestinal bacteria that help us keep certain infections at bay."

To me, this is expected as I don't believe the Lord created us with 'extra parts.' Just takes modern medicine a little while longer to figure out what His reasons were.

[bird72]

That picture is haunting, in a sense of having an effect and jolting you. It does harken back to other era's, other realities of medicine, and levels of suffering to have been endured. And when the poor fellow passed, up in the attic they went. This is a Woody Guthrie song or something.....

[The Boss]

Originally Posted by bird72

That picture is haunting, in a sense of having an effect and jolting you. It does harken back to other era's, other realities of medicine, and levels of suffering to have been endured. And when the poor fellow passed, up in the attic they went. This is a Woody Guthrie song or something.....

That or a Steven King movie!

[694.1]

Attic of an ancestor's home, Shelby Co. Ohio and the first brick home constructed there, the Wilson-lenox home. Built in 1816!
These floor beams were solid black walnut & about 4X12, talk about impressive!
It was pretty awesome to stand there.
I understand that the last dwellers had moved out just after WWII.