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I was running a couple of last minute errands downtown,...Whoa! There's Penn Digger's van and a lit up fogged over storefront![:D] U TURN! "Hey Tom,...whatcha doin?"... "Well, just had an hour or so to dig....I was just thinking about calling you, but everyone couldn't come this late"....Might as well join me since your here!... Cool, Thanks Tom.[:)] I had just snapped some pics of downtown lights that looked cool aginst the snow before I ran into Tom...

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Unfortunately it wasn't near as pretty inside the building......But hey,...bottles are where you find them...

That hole with the big rock poking out was where Tom felt there might have been a wood lined privy at one time,...He was right! He had been digging in the rear of the building where the floor was also being replaced, I had been digging up from the privy hole a ways,where the blue bottle came out last Tuesday. The place was a muddy mess.

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Pretty bizarre to be digging at 10:00 at night in a lit and heated building while digging a privy that had to predate this building..Here's where Tom was digging when I arrived....

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We were both waltzing around like drunks, trying to dig thru the wet clay and keep our footing...Tom ran the pump a few times to drain the hole...

Nerve food...

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In the rear corner of the privy the bottles were stacked up tight...We're still in the first foot and a half,... so most of the stuff is 1890's...

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We should have pulled out the big rock before we dug down because now it's encased in slop![:D] [:'(] It'll need to come out before we can square the thing out to the walls....

Tom, (who's really into local druggists), hit one out of the ballpark with this one!...A previously unknow to us variant from here, with a picture of an OIL DERRICK! I'll try to find a clearer pic, the camera wasn't focusing to well because the lens assy. had mud in it.

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