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Just discovered the previous owners thought load-bearing shelves could be mounted on drywall and only drywall
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Just as an update to this for anyone who cares, in taking out the remains of the shelving I discovered that the position of the crossbeams is adjustable, and they could've been shifted over and screwed into the wall studs. Instead they used more split-style drywall anchors.
That said, it looks like there were some parts screwed into the wall studs: three small hooks made of a different material that finally snapped after however many decades of use. Amazing that only three of them held it up for that long.
I swear, the replacement shelving is going to be so overdesigned....