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[:D] 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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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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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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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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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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