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Vintage Airliner Crash Revealed in Found Negatives
Vintage negatives...of a plane crash? I’m in! I admit it. I have more items than the time to go through them all. While searching for...
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Greg
- Nov 19, 2019
- 2 min
Women's Work is Never Properly Credited
This card tumbled out of a book from the 1890s and has become another wonderful adventure down the rabbit hole of research. The Civil...
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Greg
- Sep 12, 2019
- 5 min
Another side of the Vietnam Story (part 2)Video -
There it was, almost finished - A short subject Vietnam documentary made from the two 8mm reels and the one audio reel that I had...
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Greg
- Feb 16, 2019
- 2 min
More than just Grateful - Music history could be hiding right under you!
If you continue to drop in and read about the things I have found - I promise - I will share tips that are guaranteed to lead you to some...
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Greg
- Jan 21, 2019
- 2 min
A side of Vietnam I never knew existed (Part 1)
Estate sales can be as dull as ditch water or as fascinating as a museum of world history. The likelihood that it will be the former and...
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Greg
- Oct 7, 2018
- 2 min
A 1944 letter from a soldier fighting in the South Pacific
I only do this Urban Archeology thing for the coincidences, serendipity, synchronicity I had just finished the book on CD version of...
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Greg
- Jul 26, 2018
- 2 min
Jazz at Noon - How I found Les Lieber just a few weeks too late.
The part of Urban Archeology that I enjoy most are the myriad rabbit holes of history that I am allowed to run down. I recently came...
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Greg
- Jul 26, 2018
- 1 min
History Needs Our Help!
As an Urban Archeologist it's not always easy choosing which direction to go each weekend. Connecticut? New York? I am surrounded by...
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Greg
- Apr 1, 2018
- 3 min
An Easter Greeting from 1920 - an artist with a special talent is discovered by serendipity
An Urban Archeologist needs all the help he (or she) can get. Tips often come from the unlikeliest of sources and my latest dig was no...
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Greg
- Jan 13, 2018
- 5 min
My Mom Met Obi-Wan-Kenobi, and it took a Dumpster Dive to Figure it out
On an unseasonably warm November Saturday morning I was standing in a nearly full roll-off dumpster. I had just run an errand for my wife...
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Greg
- Dec 26, 2017
- 4 min
90 Year-old Christmas Postcard has a lot to say, though some of it is made-up.
This postcard from my collection has more to say than just “Merry Christmas!” The fact that it’s 90 years old is just the beginning. The...
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Greg
- Dec 13, 2017
- 3 min
Normal People go to Estate Sales and look in boxes...I look in the walls.(video)
I could tell you the secret strategy to finding treasure at sales, but if you follow this blog the truth will be revealed...again, and...
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Greg
- Dec 9, 2017
- 3 min
I saw a werewolf drinking a Piña Colada at Trader Vics, his hair was perfect.(updated)
Warren Zevon has been gone many years now, but I still miss him and his brand of music. (this image courtesy of the chuck spang gallery)...
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Greg
- Dec 8, 2017
- 2 min
All the Trappings of a Really Good Find (from Alabama to Connecticut)
This is a social sport and you can win by talking to everyone you meet. I found this story because I chatted it up with someone at a sale...
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