Wednesday…. More Odd things remembered

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            Stamp Collecting

BUT for now:

AS kid I started a stamp collection. Back then the standard letter postage was 3¢.

I ordered some stamps from the ads in comic books.. I once ordered a 150 used variety  for 50¢.

My Great grandpa in rural Georgia was a Judge. His office/court was about 10x12 feet; it sat beside a dirt road. When I was about 5 or six years old, he wasn’t judging anymore and it was falling down, records and books still inside. ODD to say the least. Sister Shirley and I played in the old building. I retrieved many samps there, I even had some of the first Airmail stamps. Airmail cost more than surface mail because it was faster for cross country mail.

I kept that collection until the 1970s. I stored it in the attic of the first house Sherry and I ever bought. That house cost was $3000.

I joined the USN and we rented the house out for $40 month to a lady with kids. She paid for a couple months then quit. I am no landlord, she got behind hundreds of dollars. I was transferred to GITMO and Sherry had the sheriff evict them.  My stamp collection went with them.

We had already learned the mother was a crook. Things like, at the A&P grocery store. AFTER her cartfull was rung up, she said she had left her money in the car would bring it back after she put the gro in the car. She did not come back. Many stories like that.

Her oldest son learned well from his mama. He pulled off the largest bank robbery in the USA. The Loomis/Fargo Heist in Charlotte, NC. Over $17 million. So much money (2000 lbs of bills) it had to be stored in barrels in a storage facility.  It was a year or so but he was caught and sent to prison, his mama was sent to prison also for money laundering.

NO! She never paid the back rent! :-(

So I figured my million dollar stamp collection was not enough.

ABOVE is a true story, except for the value of my stamps, I am sure they were worth MILLIONS!!!!  LOL

I am a firm believer there are MORE good folks in this world than crooks.

 

Nite Shipslog

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