Sometimes the reminder is something forgotten when the former residents cleared out, like yellowing documents in a basement safe.
"Here's where my wife threw all my papers," he says, pointing to two gray filing cabinets and a desk piled with yellowing documents.
His knocks on the door were never answered, but he believed that someone was inside; the notices he left, bright-yellow documents with "Sheriff" written on them, were always gone when he returned.
To vote in the long-postponed election, many of these one million excluded residents had to troop to registration offices, clutching yellowing documents in a race to prove they belonged here.
In a court battle that has become a test of faded memories and yellowing documents, Brooklyn prosecutors worked yesterday to repair the damage done by defense lawyers in their case against a man who contends he was wrongly convicted of murder more than a decade ago.
Their stories can be found among thousands of yellowing documents at the land office, where Commissioner Jerry Patterson — a Republican who has already announced his intention to run for lieutenant governor in 2014 — gains inspiration for his moderate views on immigration reform.
On Wednesday, I could walk through rows of neatly labeled cardboard boxes, but I could not peer at the yellowing documents inside.
Finally, in conjunction with the redesign, Scribd has ditched its yellow generic "document" logo in favor of something that reminds me of colored pencils.
The category Judenmobel, or Jewish furniture, appears atop a yellowing inventory document in the case.
The Indian authorities have built a detailed circumstantial case laid out in yellowing confidential documents that they say prove that Pakistan was behind the Bombay attacks.
