"Why are there things like clothes and shoes in there, that could have been re-used?"

That's what we were thinking, too. But, even back then [[about early/mid 90's) those clothes and shoes were pretty worthless. They looked like they had been stacked in some sort of order, but there was this layer of black gunk that had accumulated over time that ruined that stuff. It was pretty nasty shit; we'd only get around that stuff to hide and tried to avoid actually getting on the piles.