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When I renovated my house, I found some coins stashed in the wall as well as news papers from the NYTimes circa 1939 when the house was built.
I did not do anything like this in the work I did but it reminds me of a story.
An electrician friend got his start as a Union electrician in a paper plant. He was a 3rd generation electrician working in the plant but had never met his grandfather.
One day he was working in a junction box. His normal process was to remove one screw and swing the box cover out of the way to do their work rather than remove it entirely. In this instance, the cover fell off. When he picked it up, he found his grandfather's initials and a date in the box.
In speaking to his father and grandmother, they believe that would have been right around the first days of his grandfather starting work in the factory.
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