When my mom was visiting last week she brought over some books that she had found in their basement. If I've ever grumbled about how my parents had books that I wanted to use for art purposes, these are (almost) the books I was looking for. The ones I remembered were in my grandpa's shop/garage and were all old train books. Oddly enough, these are train books from my other grandpa. Like I said, there's railroads on both sides of my family - q.e.d. :)As far as I can tell, he bought them from somebody at a garage sale or something - Fred Ackerland was the original owner and Robert Houx was my grandpa. Fred Ackerland (or is it Ackerlund?) must have been a teenager or so because there's a ton of random stuff stuck into the books with him practicing his signature. Isn't there a certain age where you are really interested in making your signature look cool?
Anyway, I've only just started scanning things out of these but I thought you might enjoy a small selection. I love that my grandpa left them all in there too.
Oh, and the Ryan Hotel is still there :)
4 comments:
so great!! one of the best things is looking through a mystery box of old books and papers. you have some great finds! it makes me want to go dig around in my parents' attic. :p
don't get me wrong, I love mysteries as much as anybody, but I like that these are things that aren't totally orphaned :)
fun! looking forward to seeing what you do with them.
thanks for the birthday wishes xx
thanks Belinda!
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