Mystery Illustration 80

An estate sale? A trade show? What event brings these objects together?

The answer is here.

Or after the jump.

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Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 11, 2019
Category: 1950s

Comments

$50,000 in 1958 dollars is equivalent to over $400,000 in today's dollars. I guess to a burglar in 1958 typewriters were like today's expensive electronic gadgets.

Posted by ges on 02/11/19 at 07:57 AM

I guessed it was a clearance sale held by a typewriter manufacturer. The jackets hanging in the back would make a good addition to what passes for fashion in my wife's closet.

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Posted by agent j on 02/11/19 at 09:14 AM

Items left behind at a Smith-Carona salesmen's convention? Hanging in the back are the fur stoles some hookers forgot.

Posted by Virtual on 02/11/19 at 11:16 AM

@ Virtual: Maybe they paid the hookers in typewriters...

Posted by Brian on 02/11/19 at 12:29 PM

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