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Thread #35345   Message #482101
Posted By: ddw
12-Jun-01 - 10:45 PM
Thread Name: Vanishing Occupations.Street entertainers
Subject: RE: Vanishing Ocupations.Street entertainers
Yeah, Jeep — I remember that little guy too. I don't know if I still have it, but I used to have the Asheville Citizen story that ran when the pencil woman died.

Somebody missed her on the street for a few days and went to check on her, found her dead. When they started cleaning out her apartment they found a huge amount of money stuffed in chairs, pillows, etc. Don't remember for sure, but it seems to me it was something like $100,000 — which in the 1950s was a BIG chunk of change.

david