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Stumbled on a free zine about local train history at the laundromat on Maple
I was killing time last Thursday and saw a small stack of them next to the change machine, put together by someone in the neighborhood. It had old photos and stories about the rail line that used to run behind my street, stuff I'd never find online. Has anyone else picked up a cool, totally random zine from a public spot like that?
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wren3073mo ago
That "stuff you'd never find online" is the best part of those finds.
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scott.grace3mo ago
Nah, I totally disagree. That stuff is usually just junk. Old tax forms, random receipts, half a love letter to someone named Brenda. It's not magical, it's just clutter that got left behind. Give me a clean, useful find any day over a box of someone else's forgotten paper scraps.
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anthony_lane5518d ago
That box labeled "tax returns, 1998" I found at an estate sale in Akron had a letter from a guy named Leo to his wife Mabel, written from a factory floor in 1942. He was talking about how the noise was so loud he couldnt hear himself think, but he was saving up for a washing machine for her. That's not clutter, that's a real time capsule. You cant get that kind of raw, everyday life from any clean, useful item. The receipts and forms are just the frame around the real picture. I get wanting something you can actually use, but those paper scraps are like a window into someone's whole life.
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