bottlechaser62
Well-Known Member
I flew back to Arkansas for a brief visit this weekend and talked my sister and brother in-law into taking me down to the river where I dug bottles at a TOC dump with my parents in the mid 70's. Its still not the best part of town with most homes torn down or abandoned and not exactly the safest place to be. In any case, they gave in and we went down this am. We cautiously went down the torn up road and it took me about 15 minutes to get my bearings as there was some newer constructed warehousing, etc. but then I found a landmark. I remember there was an old house that kind of overlooked the dump and the foundation was still there so then it was just a matter of walking it off. I began scratching away the surface grass and started to find shards of machine made and BIMAL glass. I was really getting excited. I still wasnt sure if it was the exact area as the original dump stretched out over an 1/8 of a mile and was hit or miss as to where the bottles were. In any case, I scratched about and went about 8 to 10 inches down in some spots and came across that old burn, metal, and melted glass that I used to come across so long ago. I knew if I was going to find any old stuff, I needed to go about 4 or 5 feet down as thats where the BIMAL bottles used to be. Here's a few pics of my finds today. Mostly machine made but tommorrow I am taking the shovel!! Wish me Luck.
