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Spring fling!! Another crawlspace drugstore! - 3/20/2011 6:33:15 PM   
JOETHECROW


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Status: offline 		 Fred, Tom, Lauren and I had the luck and permission to get under another old building that shows on our earliest sanborn maps....(Thanks Tom for your part in obtaining us permission!) Didn't know if we'd be allowed down to have a look see or not, but the owner said "have at it" so we donned our bibs, and down we went. This crawl shows as a drugstore in the 1880's, although we haven't researched which one it was yet. We were down there about two or three hours (that's about all anyone could stand) as it was mighty claustraphobic at times..The upper layers were toc, with some promise of older underneath....Here's some pics of day one.

Fred reads a shard.




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RE: Spring fling!! Another crawlspace drugstore! - 3/20/2011 6:36:15 PM   
JOETHECROW


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Status: offline 		The owner was nice enough to let us string some electric down, but the first hour was all by rechargeable flashlights...

Here's a nice local that Penn Digger Tom came up with....




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RE: Spring fling!! Another crawlspace drugstore! - 3/20/2011 6:38:22 PM   
JOETHECROW


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Status: offline 		This was about as roomy as it got, with the rest of the area tapering down to wriggle space only...




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RE: Spring fling!! Another crawlspace drugstore! - 3/20/2011 6:39:32 PM   
JOETHECROW


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Status: offline 		This was more typical...




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RE: Spring fling!! Another crawlspace drugstore! - 3/20/2011 6:42:14 PM   
JOETHECROW


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Status: offline 		Here, Fred had been on a roll,...Started out with a few interesting Items including a "Buffalo Hygenic Milk Co" bottle,...then he says,...I got something down here...so we shined the light while he dug her out.... (This I think, was the milk showing...)




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RE: Spring fling!! Another crawlspace drugstore! - 3/20/2011 6:44:16 PM   
JOETHECROW


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Status: offline 		How many times do you dig a full whiskey flask?




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RE: Spring fling!! Another crawlspace drugstore! - 3/20/2011 6:48:18 PM   
Penn Digger


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Status: offline 		I wouldn't be too sure that's whiskey in there.

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RE: Spring fling!! Another crawlspace drugstore! - 3/20/2011 6:49:43 PM   
JOETHECROW


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Status: offline 		Various interesting things were coming out,...batteries in the lights were starting to give out,...so Penn Digger ran for some work lights and we timed out to string some cords.....

Here's a three piece mold, black glass ale I had coming out...This was right near where I started hitting meds, local pharms and other drugstore looking stuff,...we weren't sure what we'd find, (If anything) because the building had housed multiple business's.




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RE: Spring fling!! Another crawlspace drugstore! - 3/20/2011 7:00:39 PM   
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RE: Spring fling!! Another crawlspace drugstore! - 3/20/2011 7:10:15 PM   
JOETHECROW


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Status: offline 		Penn Digger had been finding some local blobs, broken in place, and other promise, so I elbow crawled to where he was, and pretty soon Fred shouts over..."Hey Joe,...shoulda stayed over here,"...(with kind of a weird laugh) I twisted around to see what Fred had.....Alright! A Warner's safe cure!




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RE: Spring fling!! Another crawlspace drugstore! - 3/20/2011 7:12:22 PM   
JOETHECROW


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Status: offline 		Here's a cool perfume that came out where I was digging just before we called it a day...




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RE: Spring fling!! Another crawlspace drugstore! - 3/20/2011 7:15:48 PM   
JOETHECROW


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Status: offline 		Yes,...Thanks Charlie,...how often are you lucky enough to find TWO drugstore crawlspaces to dig....(I don't think you were back around yet for the first one we had last summer?)

Here's a druggist I found that Tom thinks may have been from NYC...




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In the woods we return to reason and faith.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooTyuRd9zSg&feature=related




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RE: Spring fling!! Another crawlspace drugstore! - 3/20/2011 7:18:43 PM   
JOETHECROW


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Status: offline 		Here's another local druggist from a town about 45 minutes away from us...




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In the woods we return to reason and faith.
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RE: Spring fling!! Another crawlspace drugstore! - 3/20/2011 7:22:45 PM   
JOETHECROW


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Status: offline 		This came out of the pharmacy/med spot too,...I didn't notice the crack till I got out in the sunshine.... older "E.C's Balm....




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In the woods we return to reason and faith.
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RE: Lucky Charms Dig - 3/20/2011 7:24:00 PM   
RedGinger


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Status: offline 		Is anyone else's forum page slow?  Mine has been taking awhile to load.  Anyway, you know you're getting old when you have to "sleep off" a dig!  LOL.  Well, not really, but I'm pretty tired.  A couple of hours was enough for me.  In my panic (claustrophobia), I forgot a few bottles, but they're still under there.  Joe and I looked up the Sanborns last night, and there were various business in this building over the years (three at a time).  I need to look up "Chinese Laundry".  I bet there is some interesting history there.

It is a very tight space, requiring you to crawl around over pipes and under beams.  It's always fun to dig a space this old, though, with good friends.  I am so happy for Fred!  He found something great!  I'll let him "fill" you in on it. 

Hope we can go back soon, with some masks this time.  It is nasty under there. 

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RE: Spring fling!! Another crawlspace drugstore! - 3/20/2011 7:24:06 PM   
JOETHECROW


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Status: offline 		Thought it was pontiled....




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RE: Spring fling!! Another crawlspace drugstore! - 3/20/2011 7:25:52 PM   
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Status: online 		was there whiskey in that bottle  ?,,,it was aged long enough,,,

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RE: Spring fling!! Another crawlspace drugstore! - 3/20/2011 7:28:07 PM   
JOETHECROW


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Status: offline 		Upon closer inspection it has odd concentric rings, like if you tossed a stone in a pond...




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RE: Spring fling!! Another crawlspace drugstore! - 3/20/2011 7:29:32 PM   
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ORIGINAL: TJSJHART

was there whiskey in that bottle  ?,,,it was aged long enough,,,


Really!  We need someone to sample it, then I'll try some   I could use it right now.

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RE: Spring fling!! Another crawlspace drugstore! - 3/20/2011 7:32:01 PM   
JOETHECROW


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Is anyone else's forum page slow? Mine has been taking awhile to load.


Yeah,...that's why it's taking forever between my posts Laur....

Lauren found some cool marbles, I found a tiny onionskin? marble and a weird jewel like thing...Laur found the tiny "trade bead".




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