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Hi guys,
I just found this site and love it. Anyway I just wanted to pass along a SAD storey from my youth. In 1967 I was 7 years old and lived in a house built by my great uncle in the 1910-20 era. He was the founder of the fiirst bank in town (Spokane Wash) and was quite wealthy before the stock market crash.
Anyway one day me and my brother were in the basement playing when I found a small tin box tucked in the rafters and inside we found old papers and 2 $10,000 bills, well we ran upstairs to show our dad he sat down and was going through the papers which were stock certificates but we were more interested in the money, he gave them to us and said they were play money that there was no such thing as a $10,000 bill and asked us if there was ever a president named Chase, I didnt know but being 7 years old believed my dad (who wouldnt). So my brother and I took our bills and showed our freinds, played with them until the neatness wore out and they were more than likely thrown away at some point. Fast forward to 3 months ago I was watching some Denzel Washington movie and in it were $10,000 bills, well that brought back the memory of our find so I googled the bill and in a matter of minutes was looking at a pitchure of the bill and I find out that Salmon P. Chase was the Secretary of Treasury and one of only 3 non presidents to be on currency. Were the bills real? I called my mother she didnt remember the bills but did remember the stock certificates which were real and worth enough $ for my dad to open a new garage put a down payment on the new house at the time. Unfortunately the house was tore down in the 70s to build an apt complex so who knows what else my great uncle had hid there. I WISH MY DAD (RIP) didnt know the presidents so well.
MSgt.
I just found this site and love it. Anyway I just wanted to pass along a SAD storey from my youth. In 1967 I was 7 years old and lived in a house built by my great uncle in the 1910-20 era. He was the founder of the fiirst bank in town (Spokane Wash) and was quite wealthy before the stock market crash.
Anyway one day me and my brother were in the basement playing when I found a small tin box tucked in the rafters and inside we found old papers and 2 $10,000 bills, well we ran upstairs to show our dad he sat down and was going through the papers which were stock certificates but we were more interested in the money, he gave them to us and said they were play money that there was no such thing as a $10,000 bill and asked us if there was ever a president named Chase, I didnt know but being 7 years old believed my dad (who wouldnt). So my brother and I took our bills and showed our freinds, played with them until the neatness wore out and they were more than likely thrown away at some point. Fast forward to 3 months ago I was watching some Denzel Washington movie and in it were $10,000 bills, well that brought back the memory of our find so I googled the bill and in a matter of minutes was looking at a pitchure of the bill and I find out that Salmon P. Chase was the Secretary of Treasury and one of only 3 non presidents to be on currency. Were the bills real? I called my mother she didnt remember the bills but did remember the stock certificates which were real and worth enough $ for my dad to open a new garage put a down payment on the new house at the time. Unfortunately the house was tore down in the 70s to build an apt complex so who knows what else my great uncle had hid there. I WISH MY DAD (RIP) didnt know the presidents so well.
MSgt.
Great story, though...
