1942

[mbarrick]

Mike made a comment that made me stop and think for a second about why this newspaper would have been stuffed around the sliding doors in the first place.

The first paper was November 21, 1942, this lastest one is November 14, 1942 - both weekend papers with the colour funnies. From that I'm going to guess that whoever lived here in 1942 had a kid and bought the Sunday funnies for them, and that kid also had a bad habit of pushing and pulling the sliding doors and either drove his parents nuts with the noise or got his fingers slammed in the door. The paper was probably stuffed in as padding to keep the doors from slamming shut, or possibly from closing at all.

Urban archaeology in my own apartment