These little cuties are tough to get over with a shovel around here. The underpaid, under read, and freakishly strong privy dippers of Denver must have sought for the local returnable beer and soda bottles as hard as I do. I imagine it might have been a lucrative sideline for a 5 year old trapped inside the body of a hulk, and making whatever low wage was paid to a digger of new poop. I never get paid for it. No business person locally has any need for stale human guano.
There are 90 BIMAL Denver sodas listed in the local bottle book. I am doing my best at coming home as exhausted and filthy as I can, as often as possible. I am looking for all of them. It is a tough job, but I sure as hell am not PAYING for old bottles. They must come from the Earth.
I think I am one or two shy of 30 in the last two years, which means I only have 60 more to go. That's fine because I enjoy hiding in pits and scratching at layers of dirty old cans and shoes. I think a dirty old hutch soda is the neatest thing.
Here is a window shot of the overall forms and color of my different Denver hutch sodas. These are just the best of each different example, and do not include color variations. The embossing may be hard to make out, but there are only a few in the photo that are really rare or special. The little green wonky one in the center-left is a very rare Star Bottling Works, Denver, Colo bottle that was produced by a local glass house for a short time in 1889. The two mug base hutches on the right are green or yellow-green A.D. Simmons, Denver, Colo bottles from the Eagle Bottling Works that are very rare colors of an otherwise very common local soda. Those are the 3rd and 4th examples known, I think. I may be off by one or two.
I am proud of this little collection. This represents lots of fun, lots of slave labor, lots of empty holes, and everything is a personal find!
There are 90 BIMAL Denver sodas listed in the local bottle book. I am doing my best at coming home as exhausted and filthy as I can, as often as possible. I am looking for all of them. It is a tough job, but I sure as hell am not PAYING for old bottles. They must come from the Earth.
I think I am one or two shy of 30 in the last two years, which means I only have 60 more to go. That's fine because I enjoy hiding in pits and scratching at layers of dirty old cans and shoes. I think a dirty old hutch soda is the neatest thing.
Here is a window shot of the overall forms and color of my different Denver hutch sodas. These are just the best of each different example, and do not include color variations. The embossing may be hard to make out, but there are only a few in the photo that are really rare or special. The little green wonky one in the center-left is a very rare Star Bottling Works, Denver, Colo bottle that was produced by a local glass house for a short time in 1889. The two mug base hutches on the right are green or yellow-green A.D. Simmons, Denver, Colo bottles from the Eagle Bottling Works that are very rare colors of an otherwise very common local soda. Those are the 3rd and 4th examples known, I think. I may be off by one or two.
I am proud of this little collection. This represents lots of fun, lots of slave labor, lots of empty holes, and everything is a personal find!
