His penniless brother Victor imagined for two years that the family name J. N. Goddard and Sons stood on a Barbados building's marquee instead of F. N. Roach & Co.; on the day of its sale an acquaintance offered to buy it for them on their signature alone, and they bought it for $50,000 in 1924 and sold it to a bank for $850,000.
Date (happened)
1924
unresolved
- 1924
- before 1967
- before 6 November 1967
Place
Persons
Told
- 6 November 1967
- 6 November 1967
Sources
Source
- The Bible Is Addressed to the Imagination ¶4 (I think of my brother, my family, who had not a nickel, not a penny, and here he rearranged in his mind’s eye a certain structure which if true would imply that we owned this building and all that it contained.)
- The Bible Is Addressed to the Imagination ¶5 (Continuation states the building was acquired for $50,000 in 1924.)