Spent an afternoon last weekend puttering around in the boxes in my wife's mother's basement. There are pluses and minuses to people who keep everything. The pluses, of course, are that there are many, many surprises, even for people who have poked their noses around down there many times before. Included among those surprises were an Arab matchbox, random camera parts, military service memorabilia from The Big One, and many, many negatives, stored curled up in the film cans shown above. I'm slowly getting through scanning them and posting them on a separate Flickr account. Have a look -- some of them are amazing.
Wonderful. I just looked at your photos on Flickr. Really fabulous stuff. Thanks for sharing.