Gathering of Single Unemployed in my Child's Bedroom

Yesterday afternoon we ripped up the floor of Hadley's room. The previous tenant, bless her heart, thought that carpets are a worthy substitute for cat litter. Beneath the carpet lay 4 layers of tile. Underneath it all is a very old hardwood floor, half chopped up into little quadrants of plywood.
Before this project we wondered how old this house is, as most people do when they move into a new place that was built between 1900 and 1970. Alicia did a mini-survey of the outside of the house, deducing that both the front and the back are add-ons, thus making the actual house very small. I think that what is now Hadley's room was actually the old bathroom but Alicia thinks it was the kitchen.
Between the 1st and 2nd layer of tile were a number of sheets of the Vancouver Sun, dated July 11, 1938. This places it right before the war, depending on which historian you ask. The articles vary between quaint and fascinating. We're going to try and scan the paper and then I'll put some some examples. I was very excited to read a story about mass evictions and riots by homeless people. The mayor of the time was much less wishy-washy than Sam Sullivan; he decried the riots as insufferable and immoral. We'll see what old Sam says when we tear this town down in 2010.