NJ_Bottle_Digger
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There once was a historic 1700s Mandeville home in Pompton Plains NJ. By 1900 it had become the Mandeville Inn. It was a high-end place; it survived Prohibition (guess how?) but not the Depression. Like many hotels, they buried their trash. And I'm in two groups who have teamed up to unearth it.
Saturdays have found us tunneling into a stretch of the trash dump dating from about 1900 to 1920-ish. So many intact bottles! (And other cool stuff, like the tableware pieces, intact Edison lamp, roadside signs, expensive camera lens, mouthwash bottle with its preserved contents, and the 1899 carbide bicycle lamp.)
That's my intro. Now I am slowly ID'ing the bottles & other stuff so I can put together the tale of the all-but-forgotten Mandeville Inn. All help is appreciated!
Saturdays have found us tunneling into a stretch of the trash dump dating from about 1900 to 1920-ish. So many intact bottles! (And other cool stuff, like the tableware pieces, intact Edison lamp, roadside signs, expensive camera lens, mouthwash bottle with its preserved contents, and the 1899 carbide bicycle lamp.)
That's my intro. Now I am slowly ID'ing the bottles & other stuff so I can put together the tale of the all-but-forgotten Mandeville Inn. All help is appreciated!