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Totally amateur phone camera pics thread.

Played a Christmas party gig last night at a local Masonic temple. I'm always amazed at some of the cool stuff you can find in places like this place and Eagles or VFW halls. Here's a pic of a cool Supreme Court (I guess) looking coffee table and a brick from the White House that is inset into the fireplace bricks. Super cool!
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Played a Christmas party gig last night at a local Masonic temple. I'm always amazed at some of the cool stuff you can find in places like this place and Eagles or VFW halls. Here's a pic of a cool Supreme Court (I guess) looking coffee table and a brick from the White House that is inset into the fireplace bricks. Super cool! View attachment 3623242View attachment 3623243View attachment 3623244
A neat thing about them White House Stones that some of our Scotland members here (and others) might find interesting is that when The White House was being renovated in 1950, President Truman was examining the old bricks from the original walls and he being a Mason noticed that these stones were marked with the makers mark on them. He then looked into it and found that they were made by Masons from Scotland and he was able to trace back to the exact Lodge they were members of.
The Lodge of Journeymen Masons No. 8. in Edinburgh Scotland, which still meets to this day.

Finding that these were stones of some historical importance he kept some and in 1952 he sent one out to every Grand Lodge in the US and a few to Canada Lodges. 45 White House Stones in total were sent out by President Truman.