June 6th, 2025: Fred's daughter had a memorial garage sale to empty out his apartment to sell it. Having been a friend of his for years I had to stop by. Picked up a laundry drying rack for $2, among other things. When I mentioned I needed quarters for laundry, she sold me the ones she'd gotten so far. Above is the list and the most recent four.
Jan. 16th, 2026: Partial page excerpt from Metro's centerfold memorial to Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead. The guy is timeless for sure now. I saw him live with the Grateful Dead, and then later on a date with Virginia. When they had the Dead & Co. 50th Anniversary at Levi's I ran the bike parking lot by the San Thomas Aquino Trail. At the time it was our biggest bike parking experience at the stadium by a lot. The quarter I found on the same walk I got the newsweekly in the picture.
Feb. 11th, 2026: Installed that "I CREATE MY OWN FUTURE" sticker on the side of my fridge. The magnets gathered around to share the experience.
May 2nd, 2018:
Found that Frederick Douglas quarter in the trunk of my beater
bike when I was rehabbing it for riding again. Must have been
there a while, but it's the first time I really looked at the
thing. Find it fascinating that both DC quarters have the names
of the guy represented on them.
July 4th, 2020: The coin was part of my change from some local business. Probably it was the corner store, but it could have been the Hong Kong Bakery. Both of those places gave me one in my change in the same time frame and I didn't keep track of which was which. Saw the new stickers in the new Northern Sun catalog.
