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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9708770" data-attributes="member: 6796661">My dad's side of the family were dairy farmers and the farm had been in the family for over a century. Over 700 acres. There was an area that was junk yard (old tractor/truck/car graveyard), a barn that had been hit by a tornado and they just built a new barn in another area and left the old wood of the old barn laying there with the partially underground stable area used as a place for grazing cows to get out of inclement weather. We also had three airport hangers built by the government during WWII when the government used a section of the land as an auxillary/overflow flight school to train South American pilots.  Not sure if this was by agreement or eminent domain, but they got to keep the buildings after the war. In the 80s there were lot of companies and individuals who would come and just buy the old junk. I'm not surprised about people buying old vehicle bodies and parts and old tools and stuff, but a lot of people were buying old, weathered wood, apparently mostly for decorating restaurants and bars. Whatever I may think of the kitsch of 80s restaurants, it helped my dad's family make some money and get rid of a lot of junk.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /></blockquote>

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