If you neglect your garage

[Ricky Joe]

This is what can happen!

 

[Lightyear]

That is a bunch of sad neglect

 

[MattGarage]

That'll buff right out

 

[Ran when parked]

Details! We need details. This is kinda sad.

 

[Debcrow]

Some of the prople who try to sell things would just say it has Patina.

 

[ZRX61]

That vise!!!

 

[Sumboodie]

Priorities change over the years...

 

[turbowoodworker]

One man’s pile is another’s opportunity.

 

[Jagmandave]

Was there a fire?

 

[Skyman]

As a descriptor of that situation, "neglect" seems far too kind.

 

[Shelbylex]

Abandoned place after owners died and the relatives never cared?

 

[Shiftless]

That vise!!!

That’s a Prentiss Bulldog #55 weighing in at 100 pounds and probably about 100 years old.
(drool)

 

[TurnipTruck]

That looks like the heat was turned off for years and snow built up until the roof failed.

 

[Drill Sergeant Arc]

It’s just a picture of what the world will look like someday when people won’t be able to do anything with their hands or brains but play video games.

 

[Ricky Joe]

This is a garage that was open when I was a child in the 1950s. My grandfather used to stop there to buy bait at the attached store when we went fishing. I’m not sure when it closed. The owner is still alive, but not in very good health. He has a lot of resentment towards people who have broken the windows and stolen just about anything that could be carried. Over the years the roof has caved in and water has done a lot of damage. It is very overgrown now. There is a 1968 Ford that has been overcome with trees beside it. There is also a 1950s International Harvester wrecker and other old vehicles behind it. Other than the vise, I doubt there is much worth the effort to resurrect. He has about twenty sheets of diamond plate that I have been trying to buy for some time. He is cordial to me now, but that has taken a couple of years. He hasn’t been in the garage in probably thirty years or more.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Wow. 30 years is along time to ignore your garage!

 

[Shiftless]

I’m surprised that the city has not condemned the property, declared it a public nuisance, and ordered it demolished. Give him a hundred bucks and a six pack or ??? and see if he’d let you grab that big bulldog.

I like the graffiti style lettering on those old Prentiss vises. I have its smaller brother, a #52

 

[Ricky Joe]

There is another garage not far from it that is a veritable time capsule, closed maybe in the 1960s. The building is intact, and you would think that it just closed over the weekend.

 

[Ricky Joe]

I’m surprised that the city has not condemned the property, declared it a public nuisance, and ordered it demolished. Give him a hundred bucks and a six pack or ??? and see if he’d let you grab that big bulldog.

It is in a very rural setting.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

I'm from such an area. There is alot alot of old stuff there still

 

[Ricky Joe]

Wow. 30 years is along time to ignore your garage!

Could be more, I don’t know. I stop periodically to keep my name in the hat. We talk through the screen door. It is hard for him to stand, and so I don’t prolong it. I’ve been stopping by for 4-5 years now. It was a working garage, not hobby, connected to an old country store. I know that it has been closed for over thirty years, could be forty. Old country mechanic, honest as the day is long, and severely angry towards those who broke in and stole. I usually just keep my offer to purchase alive, haven’t even discussed price. Pointless without him deciding to sell.

 

[IMCA38]

So sad to see stuff that was usable at one time allowed to just rust away.

 

[AreBeeBee]

So sad to see stuff that was usable at one time allowed to just rust away.

There's a rusty drill bit in the drill press chuck. Someone just turned the machine off and walked away forever.

 

[paulsomlo]

Be nice to your garage, or you'll get rust on your Johnson!

 

[Roberts210]

Once the roof start leaking the building and contents go to hell pretty quickly.