About 40,000 people came through the estate sale, which started Friday and wrapped up Sunday afternoon, said John Romani, who runs Sales by Helen with his mother. Many were police officers and firefighters and ordinary citizens who came to pay their respects, to chat with Rizzo’s son Frank Rizzo Jr., and maybe leave with a trinket or two, he said. “To a lot of people it was a pilgrimage, an opportunity to say goodbye one more time,” he said. Romani estimates about 50 to 100 historically significant items were found after the sale wrapped up. The newly discovered items and some of the pieces that didn’t get snapped up in the estate sale will now head to auction Jan. 29 at Uniques & Antiques in Aston, Pennsylvania, he said.

Source: National Post November 26, 2018 23:26 UTC