Any Idea of the Purpose of These?

Jules

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Any idea of what these would be used for? They’re in a pantry. It was a question that came up on FB. The person looking at the house was curious. The former owners lived there for six years and never knew. There are 2.5 million members and no answer yet.

I can’t think of anything.

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Those have a clear plastic panel on he front. Other than filling them with colorful objects small enough to fit as a wall decoration I don't see a use. Even that is a stretch since the location isn't for constant viewing.
 
Whoever built it was a photographer and used it to store rolls of film. Remember film use to come in those little square boxes, right? You could load each bin up with different speed or types of film, it made for easy storage, easy inventory and easily pull what you need for the day.

That's my guess and I'm sticking with it.
 
Whoever built it was a photographer and used it to store rolls of film. Remember film use to come in those little square boxes, right? You could load each bin up with different speed or types of film, it made for easy storage, easy inventory and easily pull what you need for the day.

That's my guess and I'm sticking with it.
Actually that doesn’t sound like a bad guess. Maybe it was used as a darkroom.
 
Any idea of what these would be used for? They’re in a pantry. It was a question that came up on FB. The person looking at the house was curious. The former owners lived there for six years and never knew. There are 2.5 million members and no answer yet.

I can’t think of anything.

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Hard to believe someone lived with those for 6 years without removing them...
 
Hmmm, located in or adjacent to a food pantry...pretty sure is designed to "dispense". The width is close to the width of the door, so approximately 36 inches wide, and judging buy the thickness of the frame, about 3/4" deep. Nine slots, which could be 4.5 inches wide each.
Edit: actually the more I look the divider material could be maybe 1-1/2" wide. :unsure:

Whatever it was designed to dispense, they used a lot of them.
 
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