Buy a used brick...only fifty bucks!!!

[JDgreen227]

The local university (Michigan State) recently had a 60 year old brick smokestack demolished, and according to what I just read, they are selling chipped, cracked, bricks with mortar still stuck to them, for $50 each at the university Surplus Store. In two days they had already sold over 100 of them to people wishing to own a "piece of MSU history"......:laughing:

Even if I was a fan of MSU, and I am not, paying $50 for a used, damaged brick is utter stupidity.

 

[tallyho8]

WOW! And I though I was making a killing when I was selling bricks from the 250 year old demolished Elmwood Plantation for $10 each.

 

[grsthegreat]

hmmm, makes me want to set up shop in their parking lot and sell some of my used bricks for......lets see.... $40.00 hehe. Id have to take off the $1.00 price tags first though

 

[jinman]

Since it's the University Surplus Store, I'd bet this is a fund raiser. You essentially donate $50 and get a brick.

 

[grsthegreat]

Since it's the University Surplus Store, I'd bet this is a fund raiser. You essentially donate $50 and get a brick.

well when i pay taxes i donate all my money and only get the shaft...so maybe this is better.:laughing:

 

[JDgreen227]

Since it's the University Surplus Store, I'd bet this is a fund raiser. You essentially donate $50 and get a brick.

Actually you are correct, in a way...proceeds go to "The State is Great" endowment, a flexible fund endowment used to meet the University's most pressing needs...likely raises for the big shots there.

 

[Western]

Well at least their "endowed":laughing:

expensive paper weight though.

 

[jinman]

Well at least their "endowed":laughing:

expensive paper weight though.

Speaking of paper weights. . .

I have a miniature brick from the Acme Brick Company. It's about 1" x 1" x 3" long and has "ACME" stamped on the top with felt glued to the bottom. It's a brick paperweight given to customers from back in the '40s and '50s. It was my father's from when he had an insurance agency. We lived less than 1/4 mile from the Acme brick company in Denton, TX when I grew up. Below the gravel in our road, there was a layer of busted brick (bad runs from the plant) that had been crushed and used for a roadbase surface.

BTW: For those of you not from this area, Acme Brick is one of the oldest companies around the Dallas-Ft Worth metro area. Cowboy Quarterback Troy Aikman has been one of their spokespersons on TV ads for a long time. Acme Brick is probably the biggest brick supplier in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. During WWII, German POWs were used as a labor force in many of their plants including the plant in Denton, Tx.

 

[dmccarty]

Years ago they were replacing the Teak decking on the USS North Carolina. I bought a piece, about the size of a brick, for $10 or so. :thumbsup: Best I can remember it was the original decking, other than war damage.

If so, the tax payer got their money's worth. :laughing: To think what that piece of wood went through.

The area covered was around an acre in size. It cost around $500,000 to replace. I THINK that was all raised and donated money not tax payer.

Later,
Dan

 

[JDgreen227]

Speaking of paper weights. . .

I have a miniature brick from the Acme Brick Company. It's about 1" x 1" x 3" long and has "ACME" stamped on the top with felt glued to the bottom. It's a brick paperweight given to customers from back in the '40s and '50s. It was my father's from when he had an insurance agency. We lived less than 1/4 mile from the Acme brick company in Denton, TX when I grew up. Below the gravel in our road, there was a layer of busted brick (bad runs from the plant) that had been crushed and used for a roadbase surface.

BTW: For those of you not from this area, Acme Brick is one of the oldest companies around the Dallas-Ft Worth metro area. Cowboy Quarterback Troy Aikman has been one of their spokespersons on TV ads for a long time. Acme Brick is probably the biggest brick supplier in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. During WWII, German POWs were used as a labor force in many of their plants including the plant in Denton, Tx.

Boy, I am dense some days, I always thought Acme Brick existed just to supply Wile E. Coyote....