Author Topic: Cool Find (Read 350 times)

midnight Target · « **on:** October 22, 2006, 12:46:51 PM »

I was cleaning my garage yesterday and decided to look through a box of old newspapers I've had in the loft for years. Many were beyond help, but most are OK. ANyway....

I have a paper from 2-1-45. I was wondering why my mom (a history teacher) saved this particular paper. The headline reads "River Area Flooded" (it is a Santa Cruz paper), below that is a sub-headline that reads "40 miles to Berlin". But that isn't the cool part.

At the bottom of the front page is a small article listing all of the prisoners of war freed in the recent raid on the Cabanatuan POW camp.. the "Great Raid". Cool huh?

Hap · « **Reply #1 on:** October 22, 2006, 03:39:59 PM »

I've saved the newspaper my daughter was born.

Regards,

hap

ps wonderful to pass on to future generations.

ByeBye · « **Reply #2 on:** October 22, 2006, 04:16:12 PM »

Not nearly as cool as yours, but my mom has some papers from when JFK was killed.

What I find interesting is not just the major stories, but the things like the adds for radios, clothing, campers and stuff.

I love history and it's really cool to hold on to something like that paper you have.

midnight Target · « **Reply #3 on:** October 22, 2006, 06:02:25 PM »

Most of my papers are in poor condition, so they aren't worth anything. I do have an LA Herald from 8-15-45. My mom kept it because that was the day most people celebrated as VJ day. It has a front page article saying that the USS Indianapolis was lost with 100% casualties.

I have VE day, D-Day, The 1932 Olympics in LA. Many of the periferal stories are much more interesting than the headlines. I have one from 1936 that has a little sidebar with a story about Mussolini warning that war was imminent.

My mom also kept the Kennedy assasination, the Moon landing, and Nixon's impeachment. My oldest paper is from 1915, but it is in very poor shape. There is an article about the Pancho Villa raid though.

cav58d · « **Reply #4 on:** October 22, 2006, 06:32:01 PM »

I have got about 40 different papers from September 11th-the invasion of Afghanistan...something to hold on too

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #5 on:** October 23, 2006, 12:11:05 AM »

get it laminated so it won't get destroyed

rpm · « **Reply #6 on:** October 23, 2006, 01:25:41 AM »

Very cool find MT!
You might want to consider donating that to a local museum or library.[cough]Tax write-off[/cough]

After a few years after my father died I managed to get my hands on a few boxes of family momentos my stepmother horded. In one of them was old letters to my grandmother from her neices and nephews. One of those was a pristine condition Melvin G. Purvis Junior G-Man Corps kit.

SFRT - Frenchy · « **Reply #7 on:** October 23, 2006, 05:06:34 PM »

I saved the newspaper of 9 11, I thought it would be a American history milstone for my yet to be borned grand kids. Sadly they disapeared during my last move (the news papers, not the virtual grandkids).

midnight Target · « **Reply #8 on:** October 23, 2006, 06:04:59 PM »

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Originally posted by RAIDER14
get it laminated so it won't get destroyed

Lamination is the worst thing you can do to an old paper. They should be stored flat (no folds).

OOZ662 · « **Reply #9 on:** October 23, 2006, 06:31:08 PM »

My neighbor has a stack of WWII era news clippings collected by his parents that's about a foot tall. They're slowly falling apart due to being glued to that cardboard colored wrapping paper stuff.