Family secrets: I just found out yesterday Daddy got rid of Great Grand Dads still decades ago

[TexasTea]

I'm older (almost 70) and was talking to my younger sister who just told me my father got rid of a still that was at my deceased Great Uncles house back in the 80's. I helped clean that house out, but apparently it was buried under a lotta crap in the shed and I never saw it. She described it , swirly copper tubing going into a little copper top that flared and bulged out and sat on a kettel of sorts. I had to laugh. She said Daddy got rid of it.

Apparently that thing belonged to my Great Grand Dad and was used alot by him and my great uncles back in the 20's and 30's

He had all kinda stuff up in there. He was a constable and had pallets of .45 auto ammo from WWI (World War One) stored in a leaky shed. I tried shooting some in Dads 1911 and it shot but would not pierce heavy sheet metal and bounced back and smacked ya. I think Daddy sold all that 1918 marked ammo to collectors.

 

[passedpawn]

Yup that sucks. But really, besides the sentimental value, it would have been a big scrappy piece that wouldn't have worked as well as things now available (not that I would know, never done it).

I have similar stories of my dear dumb deceased dad throwing away his baseball card collection (from the 40's), his stamp collection (mint US plate blocks!), a Mad magazine collection dating back to the 50's, and MY beer can collection.

That last one was a doozy. My brother and I had them all, mounted on the wall. conetops, flat tops, no-opener-needed, etc. We came home one day and they were gone. He told us they were in the dumpster (we lived in an apt). We went to the dumpster, it was empty. My friend in the complex, also a collector, got them all. Geez.

 

[Rish]

Too bad you didn't get a chance to keep that piece of family history.

 

[TexasTea]

passedpawn, yep you are so correct, it most likely sucked compared to my organic glassware (I'm a chemist) but just for the history..I'd put that thing as a centerpiece in the L.R..

Your beer can wall ? OMG.

I'm an idiot. I have drank beers all over the world. Never saved the cans. Drank em in places you could only get to by camel but yet they had local cans. Gone like tears in the rain.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

Lots of lost items but the memories are never gone, except for some of the alcohol induced ones.

 

[JAReeves]

passedpawn, yep you are so correct, it most likely sucked compared to my organic glassware (I'm a chemist) but just for the history..I'd put that thing as a centerpiece in the L.R..

Your beer can wall ? OMG.

I'm an idiot. I have drank beers all over the world. Never saved the cans. Drank em in places you could only get to by camel but yet they had local cans. Gone like tears in the rain.

+1 for the Blade Runner reference.