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**falafel** · 10-19-2016, 04:17 PM

This is more of something to look at than read, although there are words in it.

A 35 year old guy on imgur finds an old lunchbox hidden in the basement ceiling of his 1940s era house while remodeling....

Part 1: http://imgur.com/gallery/7ZZYD

Part 2: http://imgur.com/gallery/4Jlq7

**Art Vandelay** · 10-19-2016, 04:24 PM

cool and crazy story. Obviously the next adventure will be trying to track down if it was stolen money or not.

**Jeff Lebowski** · 10-19-2016, 04:54 PM

Looks like a simple plan. What could go wrong?

**Uncle Ted** · 10-19-2016, 09:44 PM

Originally posted by Art Vandelay View Post

cool and crazy story. Obviously the next adventure will be trying to track down if it was stolen money or not.

Yeah, $45,000 in the early 50's would be like $500,000 today. I wonder if a former owner of that home died a horrible death for embezzling large sums of money from his mafia boss.

**Walter Sobchak** · 10-19-2016, 10:07 PM

What did we do with the money? It is in the bank an will be paid toward our mortgage *minus taxes.

What an idiot.

**Uncle Ted** · 10-19-2016, 10:11 PM

Originally posted by Walter Sobchak View Post

What an idiot.

Yeah, first he tells the government and pays taxes. Second, he uses it to pay his mortgage when he could invest it.

**falafel** · 10-19-2016, 10:13 PM

Originally posted by Walter Sobchak View Post

What an idiot.

Don't forget the fact that he advertise the world, including the previous owners of the property, that he found $45,000 cash.

**Walter Sobchak** · 10-19-2016, 10:17 PM

Originally posted by Uncle Ted View Post

Yeah, first he tells the government and pays taxes. Second, he uses it to pay his mortgage when he could invest it.

The taxes thing and the advertising thing (as Falafuk stated)... dumb.

I understand paying down the mortgage, not going to hold that against the idiot.

**Jeff Lebowski** · 10-20-2016, 06:11 AM

Originally posted by Walter Sobchak View Post

The taxes thing and the advertising thing (as Falafuk stated)... dumb.

I understand paying down the mortgage, not going to hold that against the idiot.

I hope it was worth the thrill he got of posting the photos online.

I found a box like that once. Full of little comics from bubble gum.

**myboynoah** · 10-20-2016, 06:14 AM

Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post

I hope it was worth the thrill he got of posting the photos online.

I found a box like that once. Full of little comics from bubble gum.

Bazooka Joe?

**San Juan Sun** · 11-04-2016, 05:04 PM

My wife found this article about my grandfather today. I knew some of the details, but not all:

http://www.ubmedia.biz/vernal/news/a....html?mode=jqm

**falafel** · 11-04-2016, 05:12 PM

Originally posted by San Juan Sun View Post

My wife found this article about my grandfather today. I knew some of the details, but not all:

http://www.ubmedia.biz/vernal/news/a....html?mode=jqm

He died on a Monday evening, his daughter Connie Perry said, and his wife died the next afternoon. They had been married 62 years.

Its great to hear some of these stories from the soldiers' mouths.

**mtnbiker** · 11-04-2016, 08:03 PM

Originally posted by San Juan Sun View Post

My wife found this article about my grandfather today. I knew some of the details, but not all:

http://www.ubmedia.biz/vernal/news/a....html?mode=jqm

Interesting. A couple of thoughts on the article. The B-17 wasn't called the Flying Fortress because of its ability to withstand enemy fire; it was because of all the defensive guns bristling from it.

My uncle flew B-17s in WWII, somewhat earlier in the war, from May to the end of June, 1944 (spanning D-day), when he and his crew completed their tour of 30 missions. He never told his kids about it, but my brother and I, being airplane nuts, managed to cajole some stories out of him. Pretty fascinating and scary, too. His plane was shot down just a mission or two after he rotated out.

The article says he was originally held in a prison camp in Nuremburg, which is where my grandma was from. Although they left Germany and came to America in 1912, just a few months after the Titanic sank. Her mother was pretty freaked out about that.

**Commando** · 11-05-2016, 05:21 AM

Originally posted by falafel View Post

Don't forget the fact that he advertise the world, including the previous owners of the property, that he found $45,000 cash.

But the imgur community DESERVES!!!

**Katy Lied** · 11-08-2016, 09:30 AM

This guy attended 52 churches on 52 Sundays in a single year, and blogged about it. Here is his LDS experience:

http://churchexperiment.blogspot.com...ormon-lds.html

Heres a list of the churches:

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