RICKJJ59W
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I was going to entitle this thread “You have to give it away you keep it†meaning, you have to give the bottle spark away to keep it lit for your self. Help a new comer out and keep it green. Remember how it felt when you first dug that milk bottle, that blue Bromo, or that R.J Ritter? Ahhhh scratch the Ritter you know what I mean.
Dave and I went over to a new ABN member’s house today. Her name is Jamie (jamieyohnpa). We went to check out the dump she had found and give her a few pointers about bottles and digging.
I knew it was a 1930’s dump because I stopped by one day after work to make sure I knew where the place was.
On the first trip by my self I didn’t see all of the bottles she dug had from the dump. Today she brought out all of stuff she dug to show us.
This saying holds true if you are digging a 1850s privy or a 1930s era dump “ya never know what you’re going to gitâ€
The houses that are in her development were built in the 1960s and 70s. There is one lone house that was built in 1860, an old farm house that sits off in the distance. That is where I believe this dump came from. I talked to the owner of the 1860 house and he told me the history of that area. The farmer owned all of the land where the new homes are now. People have lived in this old homestead for years so there is an “older dump†somewhere. I will find it one day. But for now it is all about the new bottle digger.
We did a little digging until the bugs ate us alive. Then we stopped over the neighbors to talk bottles and antiques. They had some cool items from the past to show us as you will see in the pix.
Oh yeah we even talked about that show we all love, â€BOOMBABY!!†The guy hated the show. See even the non bottle diggers think that dude is a joke. We as diggers have nothing to worry about with that numbnutz.
From the words of my old bottle digging friend Charlie Cook ---
“First it is a social event; the bottles are just an extraâ€
Thanks for the day Jamie.
Enjoy the few pix I have.
The Rock wall where Jamie found all the glass.
Dave and I went over to a new ABN member’s house today. Her name is Jamie (jamieyohnpa). We went to check out the dump she had found and give her a few pointers about bottles and digging.
I knew it was a 1930’s dump because I stopped by one day after work to make sure I knew where the place was.
On the first trip by my self I didn’t see all of the bottles she dug had from the dump. Today she brought out all of stuff she dug to show us.
This saying holds true if you are digging a 1850s privy or a 1930s era dump “ya never know what you’re going to gitâ€
The houses that are in her development were built in the 1960s and 70s. There is one lone house that was built in 1860, an old farm house that sits off in the distance. That is where I believe this dump came from. I talked to the owner of the 1860 house and he told me the history of that area. The farmer owned all of the land where the new homes are now. People have lived in this old homestead for years so there is an “older dump†somewhere. I will find it one day. But for now it is all about the new bottle digger.
We did a little digging until the bugs ate us alive. Then we stopped over the neighbors to talk bottles and antiques. They had some cool items from the past to show us as you will see in the pix.
Oh yeah we even talked about that show we all love, â€BOOMBABY!!†The guy hated the show. See even the non bottle diggers think that dude is a joke. We as diggers have nothing to worry about with that numbnutz.
From the words of my old bottle digging friend Charlie Cook ---
“First it is a social event; the bottles are just an extraâ€
Thanks for the day Jamie.
Enjoy the few pix I have.
The Rock wall where Jamie found all the glass.
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