brokenshovel
Well-Known Member
Since baseball for the kids is finally wrapping up I was able to get back in the hole.
After looking around for a while we ended up on the West side in a barrel in the sun with 87degree weather. It got wet and just a few last pick kind of keepers.
Then packed up and headed East. Cracked some old cracked concrete and away we went after a friendly nod to the block's crack dealer. Quite the business he was running for a Sat.
Privy was a 3x3x8 box. First five feet were hard packed clean dirt with limited bricks. A few 1910 beers and another 6inch hard pack and we were in a time capsule of 1985-1893.
What was interesting is that you could really piece together a history of the owners. After looking at all the picks here's our survey.
Irish family, one daughter, maybe 2 sons, family was pretty healthy and attempted to take care of their teeth, dad a heavy beer and whiskey drinker that often knocked over lampshades and dropped the chamber pots while he stumbled around drunk.
Whiskeys included two A Seibert amber side strap flasks, a clear anchor flask, an olive flask, several plain amber flasks, one unlisted broken Smith 1/2 pint and one cylinder. Beers were a variety of different colored loop seal Wiessners and a few nice Kuszmaul's in techincally aqua but they are very bluish and a clear, and one Standard Brewing Co Bottling Depart bottle. Only a few meds, a tooth and breath med, one half a toothbrush and assorted marbles, buttons and litttle girl toys (cup and saucers).
Here's two of the whiskeys, clear anchor and an olive
After looking around for a while we ended up on the West side in a barrel in the sun with 87degree weather. It got wet and just a few last pick kind of keepers.
Then packed up and headed East. Cracked some old cracked concrete and away we went after a friendly nod to the block's crack dealer. Quite the business he was running for a Sat.
Privy was a 3x3x8 box. First five feet were hard packed clean dirt with limited bricks. A few 1910 beers and another 6inch hard pack and we were in a time capsule of 1985-1893.
What was interesting is that you could really piece together a history of the owners. After looking at all the picks here's our survey.
Irish family, one daughter, maybe 2 sons, family was pretty healthy and attempted to take care of their teeth, dad a heavy beer and whiskey drinker that often knocked over lampshades and dropped the chamber pots while he stumbled around drunk.
Whiskeys included two A Seibert amber side strap flasks, a clear anchor flask, an olive flask, several plain amber flasks, one unlisted broken Smith 1/2 pint and one cylinder. Beers were a variety of different colored loop seal Wiessners and a few nice Kuszmaul's in techincally aqua but they are very bluish and a clear, and one Standard Brewing Co Bottling Depart bottle. Only a few meds, a tooth and breath med, one half a toothbrush and assorted marbles, buttons and litttle girl toys (cup and saucers).
Here's two of the whiskeys, clear anchor and an olive
