Tearing down walls inside a home can lead to all kinds of interesting finds. In one suburban man’s case, it was a long-lost Christmas gift!
Tearing down walls inside a home can lead to all kinds of interesting finds.
In one suburban man's case, it was a long-lost Christmas gift!
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WATCH HEREContractor Tim King, the owner of T. King Construction Services, shared the rare find with NBC Chicago from suburban Lombard.
As the story goes, King was remodeling a bathroom for his parents. When he opened the wall, he found a decades-old present with his name on it.
You may be able to guess what he did next; he opened it up! The gift turned out to be a set of Matchbox thunderjets and planes - made in the late 1970s.
King guesses the gift had been behind the wall for roughly 46 years.
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