Lost but not fogoten

'>  try to make it short and to the point ,younger days worked machine maintance sheet metal shop ,owner went to auction,bought a few item;s ,i went with shop boss to pick items . low and behold  was a choice vend or vendo manafucter shop,that had just closed and auctioned of it;s machinery,and tooling ,building was loaded with soda machines and doors in different states of manufactor,parts ,trim ,all new just thrown around the place,some in groups with auction tags on them,not many marked sold ,anything and everything you could image,this was in the late 1970;s early 1980;s,most of the itmes where heading for the scrap yard i think ,did pick up a few sheets of woodgrain finish ,and black sheet stock for the front of the machines ,still in garage over 20,years later ,afew hundred dollars woud have went along way back then ,there were some older unit around the place also ,items just stacked outside in the weather,some on skids others just thrown in piles ,if  you only new what i saw there ,i was in my late 20;s and had not a clue .   now that your done wiping the wiping your moist eyes ,anybody  got another sad story or a reponse  '>