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ghopper1924

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Re: Found a Lighted Sign that "the Pickers" would really like!
« Reply #15 on: July 15, 2017, 12:30:40 am »
Any loss of limb is too much! Cool looking fireplace. Like all the stone work!!
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Re: Found a Lighted Sign that "the Pickers" would really like!
« Reply #16 on: July 15, 2017, 08:45:08 am »
I love those little bedroom fireplaces. We are wondering if there are actually two more behind the walls, which meant that there were once four small upstairs rooms. You can see marks on the floor where walls were at other times. The fireplace are on opposing sides of the rooms like they could each have a twin behind the wall. One would be behind an interior closet wall, so that would be the one to investigate
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Re: Found a Lighted Sign that "the Pickers" would really like!
« Reply #17 on: July 15, 2017, 10:24:35 am »
An interesting theory, and quite possibly right! Is there some way you can investigate?
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Re: Found a Lighted Sign that "the Pickers" would really like!
« Reply #18 on: July 15, 2017, 11:45:17 am »
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One would be behind an interior closet wall, so that would be the one to investigate

That "interior closet wall" is a pretty good clue that it is "covering" something up, namely a fireplace opening.

Remember now, very few, if any, old houses and homes were ever built with closets.

Trunks and cupboards, "YES", .... that could be placed anywhere in the room, ...... but no built-in closets with doors ......... except underneath "stairwells".

Pound on the "interior closet wall" and listen for an echo in the other fireplace. ::) ::)

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Re: Found a Lighted Sign that "the Pickers" would really like!
« Reply #19 on: July 19, 2017, 04:29:06 pm »
We travel in Tennessee a lot, and I have seen these once. They were a movie drive inn, in Cleveland, Tennessee. It was called the Moon Light. It was around until the early 1940's. I bought several painted signs from the surplus of the old drive inn.

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Re: Found a Lighted Sign that "the Pickers" would really like!
« Reply #20 on: July 19, 2017, 07:56:55 pm »
Ahhhhh  !!  That answers the question !!  Figured it had to be something big,, drive-in would fit !!  Didn`t even think about that !! 
Another brownie point for you !!