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April 26, 2017

Carpenter uncovers dad's initials while renovating an Oregon building his father built 43 years ago

  • The 185,000-square-foot SAIF building in Salem is being gutted to make seismic, electrical and plumbing upgrades.
  • By CAPI LYNN
    Salem Statesman Journal

    SALEM, Ore. — No blueprint could have prepared Clint Lamkey for what he found in the SAIF Corp. building under renovation in Salem.

    He was working on the layout of the second floor, measuring and marking where the walls will go, when he looked up at the otherwise bare concrete wall and saw the foot-high initials M.L. written with glue that was used to hang sheetrock.


     
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