I used to collect old beer cans. Ones like Acme Bulldog Ale.
“A Pip of a Nip in Every Sip.”
Don’t any more, spend my time emptying new ones.
finding relics to worship
One of my aunts had a furniture store in Illinois…
her husband, my uncle, had a junk yard, which she hated,
He told me long ago that one time before I was born,
he took a big old oak rocker from his junkyard and put it in her furniture store window.
He said he didn’t want to just give it away at a junkyard price…. but she had a fit.
Until, that is, he turned it over and showed her where “A. Lincoln” was burned into the bottom of the seat.
Well, like everybody in Illinois she knew Abraham Lincoln had owned a rocking chair….
She put $2,000 on the chair and called the local newspaper…
Those were more innocent days…..the pictures made it as far as the Chicago papers before Lincoln historians started to cry “fraud.”
That part seems true, cos he showed me the clippings.
He said he then called the local paper and admitted he used my cousin’s wood-burning tool to write the name.
It was a “joke.”
Ha ha.
Today he’d never get away with it….
but back then everybody just laughed…..
A few tourists came to see the fake Lincoln chair……
and supposedly some rich guy gave him $500 for it anyway,
cos he liked the story…….
Though truthfully, my uncle told a lot of stories…
and that last part might be one of them.
Frugal…. and X….
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Agnes has learned “the art of the deal”
x_Tech over 7 years ago
I used to collect old beer cans. Ones like Acme Bulldog Ale.
“A Pip of a Nip in Every Sip.”
Don’t any more, spend my time emptying new ones.
David Huie Green LosersBlameOthers&It'sYOURfault over 7 years ago
finding relics to worship
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 7 years ago
One of my aunts had a furniture store in Illinois…
her husband, my uncle, had a junk yard, which she hated,
He told me long ago that one time before I was born,
he took a big old oak rocker from his junkyard and put it in her furniture store window.
He said he didn’t want to just give it away at a junkyard price…. but she had a fit.
Until, that is, he turned it over and showed her where “A. Lincoln” was burned into the bottom of the seat.
Well, like everybody in Illinois she knew Abraham Lincoln had owned a rocking chair….
She put $2,000 on the chair and called the local newspaper…
Those were more innocent days…..the pictures made it as far as the Chicago papers before Lincoln historians started to cry “fraud.”
That part seems true, cos he showed me the clippings.
He said he then called the local paper and admitted he used my cousin’s wood-burning tool to write the name.
It was a “joke.”
Ha ha.
Today he’d never get away with it….
but back then everybody just laughed…..
A few tourists came to see the fake Lincoln chair……
and supposedly some rich guy gave him $500 for it anyway,
cos he liked the story…….
Though truthfully, my uncle told a lot of stories…
and that last part might be one of them.
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 7 years ago
Frugal…. and X….
https://artsbeercans.com/wp-content/uploads/bulldog-ale-45-20-flat-top-beer-can-1.jpg
For those who don’t know:
Highlight the URL with your mouse, right click, and select, according to availability in your browser,
“view image”, “goto URL”, or, preferably, “open in a new window”
rshive over 7 years ago
Agnes has learned “the art of the deal”