New Madison Hardware discovery

It doesn't surprise me. Got me!

Hahaha April Fools

Arthur,

you made my day,

Brad

good one.  very believable to boot.

I bit hard on this one-hook, line and sinker!!!

I bit too.   It sonds plausible.

Seemed entirely plausible to me .

Do you mean that there really aren't a million dollars worth of old Lionel trains stored away in a building on East 23rd Street in Manhattan? In New York City, anything is possible.

MELGAR

The owner of the building  being renovated is the likely new owner of the discovered trains. It is unlikely that it would be the construction company.

I assume that the lease Madison had at the building ended. Most leases say that any property left and abandoned by the Lessee becomes the property of the Lessor.

@Arthur P. Bloom posted:

New York, NY April 1, 2023. (Fox News)

Workers renovating a warehouse-type commercial building on East 23rd Street in Manhattan have discovered a large cache of new-in-box Lionel toy trains, apparently stored there by the Madison Hardware Company, which was a well-known store on East 23rd Street that sold Lionel Trains during most of the 20th century, until being bought out by an entrepreneur in the Midwest, in the late 1980's.

According to a construction company representative familiar with the project, workers broke through several walls on the 4th, 5th, and 6th floors of 765 East 23rd Street, in Manhattan, only to discover a huge trove of brand new, in the box, Lionel Trains, worth, according to some experts, close to a million dollars.

"Christmas came early" said Milo von Andrakinos, a foreman for the construction company.  It is assumed that the two previous owners of Madison Hardware, Lou Shur and Carl Shaw, failed to divulge the contents of the off-premises warehouse when negotiating with the next owners.  A train collector familiar with the brothers' situation stated that it was probably not a case of malicious business dealings, but rather just a case of the lovable but eccentric owners having so many trains stashed all over the island of Manhattan, that they honestly couldn't remember where all their inventory was stored.

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April Fools???

@FrankRazz posted:

April Fools???

Of course!  Happens every year, a rash of these kinds of posts.

April fools day

AlanRail wrote:

"The owner of the building being renovated is the likely new owner of the discovered trains. It is unlikely that it would be the construction company.

I assume that the lease Madison had at the building ended. Most leases say that any property left and abandoned by the Lessee becomes the property of the Lessor."

Wow.