newspapers under the floor covering in our Evanston kitchen, dating from 1938... interesting reading. Then the maple floor under that!

Im not a builder but i love to look at things that everyone post gives me ideas...but this is to funny at what people find when they redo there houses ...must be neat to find things from the past ,but not rubbish...lol

my husband found a penny from 1840 in a house last week it had an idian head on it pretty kool

I was taking down a wall in a friends home getting ready to put in a second bathroom for them and behind the wall was a small bathroom that looks like it was put in in the 30's or 40's

When repairing a cast iron pipe in a turn of the century house I found a plumbob that must have been hanging there for a hundred years

I never got to pull it out, but we lived in a house in the fifties thru early sixties that had a medicine cabinet with a slot for razor blades in the back of it. I wonder what else may have been in there.

very cool !! i too found a news paper from ww2 bold letters Japan Surrenders! in beautiful condition Also showed a pic. of Jimmy Stewart recieving a decoration Then someone stole it . What a drag!!

I purchased a home in Mississippi in the early 90's, during the reno I found early 60's newspapers the real estate ads reflected at that time that I would not have been allowed to purchase the actual house I was standing in because of the color of my skin...

So far, we have uncovered (literally) a 4x6 closet, one of the oldstyle closets that were about 18" deep and 3 feet wide, and a pantry that is 12" deep and 4 feet wide. Last month, we found a window that had been covered over. Nothing compares to the booze I posted earlier tho!

this reminds me of an article i read not so long back.....some school was moving the bleachers and found some guys wallet that he lost there in the 1950's. he was happy to get it returned!

wow, Nita, sounds like you found a house within a house. Maybe that booze explains why so much of the house got hidden.

@ nita...it might have something to do with hiding the booze...rather than drinking it...That whole prohibition thing...secret and hidden rooms to keep the investigators on their toes.

In front of our house is a crazy mess of ivy so thick that going through it was like an archeological dig. As I was removing the layers of ivy, I started finding random newspapers, nicely sealed in plastic bags, from nearly 2 decades back. The toys I found were adorable--from baseballs to tonka trucks to the simplest toy cars for toddlers. It was like traveling back through a little boy's childhood. The funniest thing I found was that at the bottom of it all was a WALL. A big honking stone ...»

Karin F...its little projects like this that inspire young folks to pursue a careers as archeologists. You get to still dig in the dirt but also be able to use your brain to try to fit all of the puzzle pieces together.

All I ever was a 48 Packard in the stream.

Some years ago I had my bedroom redone in this old house I'm in. In the ceiling rafters - which were constructed with every imaginable type of wood,even a few door jambs - we found an old knitted bootie, the leather sole still whole and some pages from a church's newletter for kids (old, late 1890's). I took that to the town's historian and she was so excited! They had heard that this church published a newsletter and mailed it to children but they'd never come across any of them. It's now in the town's historical society.

The downstairs "powder room" has one of those old medicine cabinets with the razor blade slot. I'll never replace it. The 2-story shed in the yard has a 2-seater in it..

I have an old victorian home. We have yet to make any discoveries however each time we do any work where we open up a wall I make sure some baseball cards make their way into the wall before I button things up. Think about it........

Pond digger, I put a dollar bill of the year I am doing the work, in a zip lock baggy in the wall.

Remodel our bathroom with my then husband and found old medicine bottles and a few booze bottle a old knife and some old papers. so when we started to close up the walls we put Pepsi can and a newspaper some other things my kids wanted to put in it like a time capsule for someone else to find. Was a fun for us to find so thought someone else to find

we found a full page newspaper ad for A & P grocery store from 1932..it was behind an old picture when we opened the frame....i have it re-framed in my kitchen....eggs 33 cents a dozen, pork roast 6 cents a pound and bacon 19 cents a pound and many more deals...everyone who looks at it just goes "wow"