[HN Gopher] Couple discovers two 60-foot-long murals hidden behi...
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Couple discovers two 60-foot-long murals hidden behind walls of
115-yo building
Author : wglb
Score : 43 points
Date : 2022-01-29 19:40 UTC (2 days ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.cnn.com)
| BrandoElFollito wrote:
| A friend of mine bought an old house in a medieval city in
| Europe. She wanted to make it a hotel, starting renovating and
| found an antique mosaic on the walls.
|
| She informed the city, archeologists came in and shut the place
| for a year.
|
| She was curious but could not do anything.
|
| When she finally got her place back, she discovered an artezian
| spring in the basement but did not tell anybody and had a great
| source of water.
|
| Such discoveries are not always fun.
| capableweb wrote:
| "Fun" is always a subjective perspective :)
|
| I'm sure if she shared the news about the "artezian"
| (artisanal?) spring it would have added a bunch of fun for the
| archeologists, the city, historians, family who are/were
| related to the house (if they found out) and more, while maybe
| not being so fun for your entrepreneur friend.
| woodwireandfood wrote:
| > "artezian" (artisanal?) spring
|
| Artesian: it refers to groundwater under pressure.
|
| https://www.britannica.com/topic/artesian-well
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artesian_aquifer
| anm89 wrote:
| I had a friend who purchased a 3 unit rowhome in a row of
| identical rowhomes in Pittsburgh. His neighbor invited him over
| and the layout of the entire house was the same except there was
| an extra stairway and attic room in this house. Given that they
| were seemingly identical houses he figured he probably had the
| same room in his house.
|
| So he cut out a hole in the wall with a reciprocating saw, jumped
| into it, and walked straight up a stairway into a semi furnished
| attic filled with antique furniture. They had been living there
| for a year with no idea it was there. It felt like something out
| of a movie
| JoeAltmaier wrote:
| My young friend on a construction crew, was renovating a
| building in a small Iowa town. The place had been retail on the
| main floor, but had closed 20 years before and never
| redeveloped. The 2nd floor was the original downtown
| developer's office space, the 3rd was defunct Masonic lodge
| with peepholes, railings, bell hooks all still in place.
|
| But the 4th floor was an apartment, closed and untouched for 50
| years. The widow who had last lived there, was evacuated by the
| fire department when the stairwell collapsed (and put in the
| poor home). So her apartment was untouched from that day.
|
| The boxes in the pantry were amazing - old stick-figure
| marketing characters from the late 1950's. Soap powder,
| cleaning supplies, tissues etc. all brands I didn't recognize.
|
| The floor and walls were grey and faded, but behind and under
| the refrigerator they were still fresh and proved to be wild
| art-deco patterns. The refrigerator itself was weird - the
| shelves were lazy-susan style that revolved.
|
| I was struck by how spartan it all was. She had just 2 forks, 2
| spoons etc in the kitchen drawer. Just a couple of plates and
| bowls in the cupboard. A wardrobe with 2 or three changes of
| clothes. And that was about it. Not so much consumerism back
| then I guess!
|
| Anyway it's all gone now. But it was cool to tour it (I had
| driven down to give him a lift, his truck had gone in a ditch
| and he offered to show me around). Had to climb external
| construction scaffolding to get up there, go in through the
| fire escape door. But it was worth the look!
| api wrote:
| My wife (then fiancee) and I found something similar in the
| attic of an apartment building in Cincinnati. Didn't have to go
| through a wall and it wasn't locked, but once inside the attic
| had low ceilings and looked untouched since the 1920s. I'm sure
| people had been up there but it was full of antiques and had
| what looked like original wallpaper everywhere. Very old rotary
| light switches too.
| jshprentz wrote:
| A 50-foot-long, 9-foot-high, 1885 circus poster was discovered in
| 2015 when a bar in Durand, Wisconsin opened a wall to expand the
| bar into an adjacent property [1]. After methodically removing
| the wall, the bar owners enlisted a team of experts to clean and
| restore the poster. The poster is the main attraction in the
| Orton Room, the bar's banquet room named in honor of Miles Orton,
| the owner and manager of the Great Anglo-American Circus and a
| performer featured on the poster [2].
|
| [1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/huge-19th-
| century-...
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| [2] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-
| states/wisconsin/articles/2...
| webmaven wrote:
| I'm getting a "Bob Ross" vibe from the photos. Pretty cool
| discovery.
| dcdc123 wrote:
| What's up with the super low contrast on the text in that
| article? Grey on white is super obnoxious.
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