Relics
GAINESVILLE, Fla.—Neil Faulkner, a maintenance mechanic at the University of Florida, displays some of the items he’s found stashed in nooks and crannies of the student residence halls where he works, two of which are nearly 100 years old. A self-described history buff, Faulkner frequently finds and saves things he says most other people would have thrown away but that he considers fascinating glimpses into nearly a century of daily college life. Here, he holds a St. Christopher’s medal that was in a man’s wallet that likely belonged to a World War II G.I. The wallet was in a basement chamber. Also visible are a 1930’s-vintage man’s shoe, and a Coca-Cola bottle left in an attic in the 1940s by a lunching plumber who also left behind the magazines (foreground), all of which are dated 1943.
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