[78-L] Ho Ho Ho from the Collyer Brothers?

[buster]

We had a guy out here in SF, a collector named Rob.

Rob lived with his folks in a big old Victorian.  They eventually  
died, and he proceeded to fill it to the rafters with his  
collections.  When it was full, he rented a warehouse in a rough part  
of East Oakland and filled it, too.

One day someone came by the warehouse, and found Rob's truck outside,  
unlocked, and the door to the warehouse open with the keys in the  
lock.  And no Rob.

They figured he's been robbed and killed and dumped somewhere, and  
eventually the warehouse landlord was allowed to clean out the place  
so he could rent it out again.  They hired laborers to haul off the  
tons of newspapers, magazines and records.

And there they found Rob's remains, crushed and dried out under a  
collapsed pile of records and magazines.

On Dec 24, 2008, at 7:37 PM, David Lennick wrote:

> Michael Biel wrote:
>> Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
>>>
>>> Oh wow, I'm not the only one with a full garage?
>>
>> Are you kidding?  I don't think anybody on this list has a garage  
>> being
>> used for parking their car!!
>
> Time to mention the sad tale of Toronto collector Keith Roos, who  
> died almost
> three years ago..IN HIS CAR..because his house was so full of  
> records, books,
> films etc. there was no room to manipulate. This really happened. It  
> took
> friends three months to get the house to the point where people  
> could walk
> through it (and start buying records).
>
> dl
> _______________________________________________
> 78-L mailing list
> 78-L at klickitat.78online.com
> http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l



-- Buster
busterdog at mac.com