Im jamie colby, and today, im in seattle, headed toward the ballard neighborhood. Its an upscale area once known for sawmills and commercial fishing, and just down the road is one mans strange inheritance and a story with a hollywood ending. My names barry martin. I inherited a tiny, hundredyearold house from a little old lady. If there ever was a realestate niche, this is one. Hi, barry. Im jamie. Hi, jamie. Nice to meet you. I meet barry in front of this little house. Yep, this is it his strange inheritance. Its just 600 square feet, and its now surrounded by a huge Shopping Mall a mall that the unlikely heir in this story helped build. Who leaves this to somebody . Well, edith left it to me. Edith . Yep. Love to learn more. Okay. Come on. Barry explains that when this house was built over a hundred years ago, ballard, washington, was the shinglemill capital of the world, with 20 mills producing 3 million shingles a day. There was fishing on elliot bay there, and the shinglemill indu
Familiar with the general society and if you dont mind im going to ask. How many of you here this evening is this your first event . A warm welcome and of course a welcome back to previous attendees. The general society was founded in 1785 by 22 artisans. Today our 234yearold organization continues to serve the people of the city of new york. We do this through our cultural and educational programs. They include our lecture series which of course is the lecture to the party. The general Society Library which will be celebrating 200 years next year. Our tuition free Mechanics Institute and the john m. Loughlin and collection which you are welcome to visit after our talk this evening and that is upstairs. Youll find more information on the blueandwhite postcard on your seats. Now we have such a wonderful start to this years lecture season. I have the pleasure of welcoming critically acclaimed biographer susan ronald who tonight will discuss her accuracy of conde nast the Public Affairs a
Population roughly 50,000. Right here in enid, they have the Third Largest Storage Capacity for grain on the planet. But wedged in between enids silos lies the tale of a cantankerous legend who left his grandchildren with a very strange inheritance. My name is stuart piontek, and in 2003, my brothers and sisters and i inherited something pretty unusual from my grandfather. His name was oliver jordan, and he died at 95. He was a child of the dust bowl. Grandpa would hold on to just about everything that passed through his life, whether it was a tin can, an automobile, a piece of copper wire. And oliver jordan kept it all here. For 60 years. This salvage lot was his home, his sanctuary, his fort knox. Hi, stuart welcome to paradise. I found it the rusted old cars in this shed some of them relics of the roaring 20s are a few of the more than 200 that jordan accumulated over his lifetime. Born in 1908, jordan was raised on a wheat farm. But his real interest was that fabulous new invention
Downtown truckee on top of the foot and a half they got yesterday, and we could see another foot and a half today. In texas, the largest wildfire in state history expands, Scorching Everything in its path. [ siren ] also tonight, the United States begins dropping food into gaza, desperate for humanitarian aid. Reporter im imtiaz tyab in tel aviv. Global outrage is only growing after palestinians were killed scrambling for food this week, prompting rare american intervention. Russia launches new deadly Drone Strikes as ukraine struggles to fight back. Donald trump rallies supporters today. Weve been on a rocket to the republican nomination. As he faces a critical moment of financial truth. And later, fur and fiction. Therapy dogs unleashing confidence in young readers, especially kids maybe struggling with reading. Doing it to a dog, it feels good. This is the Cbs Weekend News from new york with adriana diaz. Sechlt sechlt sechlt sechlt sechlt sechlt sechlt sechlt Sechlt Captioning fund
$1.9 trillion. shaking hands, kissing babies, and getting plenty of shut eye buying war bonds just to keep the kaiser on his toes trains those old beer cans with the pull tabs, what happened to those? slipping a few candy buttons into your phosphate to see how fast it makes you pedal the bike and the games on greta garbo and the best thing of all, naked with your best gal at the back of a picture show. go for it jack what was i talking about oh, i m joe biden and that s why i m running for re-election. but first i m watching the wheel of fortune oh, man oh my god that was so funny. keeping the kaiser on his toes man the gams on greta garbo, that was my favorite. too funny they re making fun of joe for one thing, that s his age. yeah. it s pretty funny. that s not so bad good morning and go for it, jack that s not right. it s wednesday, we re really it s been a long week already first of all, does anyone think it should be friday always. ple