ATTENTION ~ ANDERSON, INDIANA SODA BOTTLE COLLECTORS ~ POSSIBLE GOLDMINE

[SODAPOPBOB]

By the way, if you're thinking there's no way the bottle dump can still be there, I say ... If you were a bulldozer operator back in the 1920s or 1930s and hired to level the lot or whatever else might have occurred there, would you really give two-cents about a bunch of old bottles laying in a heap in a "low spot?" Or would you just push dirt over them and finish what you were hired to do?

 

[cowseatmaize]

If you were a bulldozer operator back in the 1920s or 1930s and hired to level the lot or whatever else might have occurred there, would you really give two-cents about a bunch of old bottles laying in a heap in a "low spot?" Or would you just push dirt over them and finish what you were hired to do?

If they were worth 2-5 cents each, heck yes! That might have been a days wage or more!

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

I realize the odds are slim the dump is still there, but I suppose the only way to know for sure is for someone to check it out - either that or possibly hear from someone who has already looked into it and have written it off as a wild goose chase. Its possible after the 1971 article appeared that someone followed up on it then and removed whatever might have been left. But then again, maybe not. It might very well have been covered over many years ago and no one has poked around the area since. If anything does remain, I suspect the majority of the bottles are either broken or chipped, as that was probably the reason the bottling works deposited them there in the first place. But its the discontinued or otherwise non-usable bottles that might have been placed there and are possibly still intact.

The attached image is the best I could come up with that shows the treed area. At least this one was taken in the winter when the trees were without leaves and shows the area in the back of the lot. The entire surrounding area consist of commercial buildings - although the two buildings in the picture appear to be private residences.

As near as I can determine, the building on the corner with the weird roof is 1801 Brown Street and might very well be the brick building (Eagle Bottling Works) referred to in the article that was built in 1921.

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

This is a Google Earth street view from W 19th Street. There is no street view available from W 18th Street. The building you see a portion of through the trees on the right is the brick building.The property looks cared for (mowed) but there might still be a covered dump in there somewhere.

 

[surfaceone]

Hey BOB, Thanks for the satellite treasure map. I envision a horde of unruly diggers descending on sleepy Anderson… [8D]

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

In the October article it referred to an article published two weeks earlier. Here's the earlier article ... September 15, 1971 ( 1 of 2 )

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

( 2 of 2 )

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

This ice cream parlor was mentioned in the October article ... ( Currently on eBay ) http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kreusch-Co-1920s-Bottle-Ice-cream-soda-mid-2-late-1920s-Anderson-IN-/251374213685?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a87121a35 J. C. Kreusch Ice Cream & Beverages ~ Anderson, Indiana ~ 1920s

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

And this ...

 

[jblaylock]

I would love to see what comes of this, if anything does.