[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Hard to believe given Paris real estate values and rental properties.

[Rusty0604]

Wow, I love old stuff like that.

[Skooz]

bfl

[The_Victor]

That prewar Mickey Mouse must have some value.

[RoosterRedux]

I want it. At 1939 prices of course.

[Jonty30]

Somebody missed the opportunity for 40 years of free rent.

[Jamestown1630]

It’s always amazed me how much a house can deteriorate simply by being unoccupied for a little while. It’s almost as if something more than just physical upkeep is involved in keeping a house ‘alive’.

But this apartment looks like it could be brought back pretty quickly with dusting and wood polish. I’m surprised it isn’t much worse.

-JT

[Captain Peter Blood]

The back story on this is very interesting.

[beaversmom]

Edit...DM article was originally published in 2013, but more recently updated in January 2016:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2323297/Inside-Paris-apartment-untouched-70-years-Treasure-trove-finally-revealed-owner-locked-fled-outbreak-WWII.html

[beaversmom]

[Blue Jays]

Seems rather unusual there would be NO REASON to enter the unit for decades and decades on end?
No electrical issues, no plumbing issues, no building upgrades, no maintenance, and all taxes paid-in-full?

[colorado tanker]

I can’t believe the Nazis didn’t loot it. Goering stole every piece of art he could get his mitts on.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Why isn’t it covered in cobwebs?

[ozzymandus]

The joint could use a little work.

[PAR35]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3018976/posts

and

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3110134/posts

[henkster]

“I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue.”

[Larry Lucido]

There is a box of Twinkies that are still fresh.

[Bigg Red]

There’s no way that place has gone untouched all of these years; there would be cobwebs and dust galore.

[central_va]

No plastic anywhere.

[trisham]

Beautiful.