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Suppose you left that set on and just walked away...suppose you left it for, say, 20 years. Those were decent sets. The crt would have to be dead, right? Might the rest of the set just keep trucking along?
Goes well with my thread in bw about my great-grandparents house. Abandoned since 1971, roughly. There is still a mailbox in front of the house with their name on it. When they started cleaning it out they had the power turned on. Very surprising that the power company went ahead and did it. Light hadn't been on in perhaps decades, now lit again. The fifties International Harvester refrigerator started cooling. Bottles of Heinz ketchup in a box upstairs, unopened, turned black inside, something apparently ate the labels. In that same village sits a mill, dating to the 1800s. One day in the mid-70s the 90-something miller went home and didn't come back. His hat and his pipe tobacco still sit by the door where he left them. All interesting stuff.
One more: my first "real" job (where they were taking taxes out and all that stuff) was back in 1991. I was told to box up all the merchandise in this little variety store. The place had been closed for, I'd estimate, 10-15 years. Shelves were full of made in Hong Kong stuff. This place was right in a premium spot on the highway. We loaded it on a truck and carried it to an old garage out in, really, the middle of nowhere. They said they were going to reopen the store out there. Their main business was plumbing fixtures, and the whole back of that place on the highway was fully stocked with toilets, showers, etc. I only worked there a week.
Fast forward. They never opened the middle-of-nowhere store, nor did they ever do anything with the place we cleared out. One day a couple years ago I needed a toilet and shower so I visited the old showroom. I don't think anything has moved in or out since 1991. The little old lady who runs the place had all the lights turned off when we got there. It smelled like a locker room in there. In the center of the showroom, with pride, sat a beautiful top-of-the-line Kohler toilet along with a chart showing all the latest 1980 colors. Weird.
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