Hidden in the walls for 100 years! Time capsule haul!

After opening a wall up during renovations, one of our neighbours found a pile of 100 year old newspapers and dropped them off at the store for me!

Let's go through them together and see what was happing in the 1920's!

[kimberlymolitor]

Great newspapers! My grandparents once knocked out a wall in there bathroom to renovate and found it was lined with old comic books ! They sold the comics and it paid for the whole bathroom reno!! 😀

[JeanKnits]

I am a historian and have spent many hours looking at old newspapers. The ads can be the best part of the reading. :-)

[rachelthompson]

I was a builder for 25 years doing a lot of historical reno work, you would not believe all the stuff I found in walls, attics and basements. One example, pulling down a beach town bungalow's ceiling 5 new 20$ bills floated down, silver certificates put there in 1929, new bills, uncirculated. They were stashed and forgotten and sold for more than face value.

[sherriwright]

My husband and I bought a house back in the early 80's. The house had been built in the late 30's to early 40's. They didn't have electricity there at the time so they didn't put any outlets in at all. Later when they got electricity they installed I think it was 3 outlets in the whole house. They had also put the sockets that you screw into the light fixtures in every room. While running new wiring and installing more outlets we found newspapers in the walls and they had used newspapers to wrap the pipes, also to put under the seams of where the linoleum pieces met. I loved looking through them, it was a little like going back in time.

[ReleaseTheQuackers]

I LOVE the end of your intro with Hans says, "I'm home, honey!" Makes me giggle every time!
Alex, you need to buy another property so Hans and Zenovia can be in your vids again!

[gardenmom]

Back in the late 60s, my neighbors were replacing their living room window, the walls were stuffed with balled up newspapers from the 20s. Us kids spent the whole day smoothing the pages back out, taping them together, and looking at ads for food and clothing. We really didn't care much about the news.

[k.y.]

Although that living room furniture was high priced, it was made to last. I own an easy chair, rocker and footstool my grandparents had before I was born. It was used when they bought it. The fabric has almost no wear, and aside from "character" nicks and bumps on wood parts, they are totally structurally sound, going on nearly 100 years old! Today you're lucky to get 10 years out of big box store furniture!

[juliegerber]

Good morning everyone. It's always nice to watch one of Alexander's videos at any time of day.
Thank you very much for sharing with us.

[lbacaterpillar]

Fascinating! I have a scrapbook I made of newspaper clippings in 1978-1980. Fun to look back on. One article is about the miracle of technology as the first cable tv service started in Youngstown, Ohio in December, 1979. Warner Cable.

[kkydsister]

Am amazed at the quality of the ink still being legible not to mention the brilliance of the red color.

[peggymcthompson]

I love looking at old newspapers. It is amazing that they are in such good condition.

[FernandoFerreira-ivew]

During the restoration of my home I found newspapers of 1912 that they used to stuff holes between the wall and the doorframe before applying plaster (here we build houses using mostly concrete bricks, for my house they used sand stone and coral stone as concrete was not readily available at that time) so the kitchen extension of my house can be dated to 1912 because of the newspaper. I also found stacks of newspapers of that time period in the loft of this parts of the house. I saved those newspapers that were not damaged by termites. Love the ads of those times, only a very few of the companies advertising back then are still in existence, mostly banks and shipping companies.

[macorourke]

Thanks for sharing Brother Alexander. Love that Jackson Pulluk style shirt. Interesting news papers 😀👍❤🇨🇦🌎🎉🎉🎉🎉👏👏🎉🎉🎉💯💯

[nancymontgomery]

I loved your bow tie and vest as an homage to the 1920s. Those papers were fun and fascinating to schnuffle through. Before you ask, schnuffle is a word my low Dutch relatives use to describe rummaging or poking around.

[kimigaines]

My dad loved reading old papers and genealogy. He liked Farmer's Almanacs. I guess I get that love of these kinda things from him. Back in the early 60s we lived in Portland Oregon. I was 3 yrs old. My Aunt was notified somehow that a person who lives in that house was renovating and found my dad's wallet. It had his military ID, SS Card, a picture of my sister and some other papers. I have it and cherish it. Crazy how that lady found my aunt who doesnt have my dad's last name. Go figure!!

[fumblerooskie]

The King Eddie! I used to eat there back in the 70s.

[evaharriman]

Please consider adding a newspaper or two in the walls of your new home for later generations to find. Look how much fun it was for you to see those!

[patbradley]

What a find. Very different time. Cloves was one of my favorite lifesaver flavours

[judithdesveaux]

Thanks for the memories. A friend of mine, several years ago, bought several boxes of old newspapers in Toronto, mostly from the 30's and 40's. He found his own birth announcement in one of them. Over the years he gave many people the newspaper from the day they were born as birthday gifts. The ads, comics and want ads are the best part.

[robincochran]

In 1927-28, my grandparents were young marrieds with babies. I love reading these old papers with the news, sports, local happenings, fashions, recipes etc and seeing how they lived at that time.