The man who financed the purchase died twenty years later and left the family $150,000 tax free plus houses and belongings; three years ago the Bank of Nova Scotia bought the property for $840,000 with no capital gains tax.
Date (happened)
c. 1944
relative · probable · preferred
Why
The purchase year itself is stated with an internal stutter ('1922 - and 1924'); 1924 is used because the building is explicitly said to be 'in 1924' two sentences later, and it fits the stated two-year visualization period.
Reasoning
The financier's death is dated 'twenty years later' than the building purchase, which the same account places in 1924 (after a two-year visualization beginning in a first-mentioned 1922), giving circa 1944. Both the base year and the '20 years later' figure are Neville's own approximations rather than exact records, so this is probable rather than certain.
-
before 1965
bound · probable
Why
No anchor in the packet for the death itself ('twenty years later' has no dated starting point here); this bound is the safe upper limit, not the death date.
Reasoning
The event's title is the financier's death and bequest, not the later sale; the passage narrates the death and gift as happening before the building was sold, and the sale is independently dated to circa 1965 (three years before the certain 1968-07-19 telling), so the death/bequest this event names must precede 1965. The existing field_date claim on this event carries that same 1965 figure but is actually the sale date, a different moment in the same passage.
Told / reported
19 July 1968
stated
Reasoning
Three independently-sourced claims -- the legacy catalogue, a dated media advertisement with weekday-sequence corroboration, and the transcript's own live dateline -- all agree exactly on 1968-07-19, giving certain confidence.
Sources
Source
- Live End July 19 Marines Memorial Club San Francisco ¶17 (And that building which he bought for $50,000 was sold three years ago to the Bank of Nova Scotia. They tore it down and built a lovely structure, but they paid our family $840,000 for that building, and there was no capital gains tax.)