Booth as seen in SC

[Jim Garrett]

A slight correction old buddy. The Presidential box was not boarded up. I apologize for any confusion. Office space was built around the box, which was left intact. The one and only Rich Smyth had found an article relating to this. When the interior collapsed, there was either no attempt to salvage what remained of the box, there was nothing left to salvage, or possibly no one cared to preserve anything. I believe that the wallpaper in the box had been strip out long before the collapse. Check the date of the collapse. It should be 1893. A piece of wallpaper was owned by Mary Ann Holmes Booth (JWB's dear old mom) and she died in 1885. The contents of the box could have been stripped out sometime 1866 or shortly thereafter.

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BTW Heath. You seem to have been bitten hard by the LA bug. It is an illness that cannot be cured, even with massive spending on cures such as books, DVDs, artifacts, etc. It seems that you have already become resigned to this illness.