Whiskey Bottles found under floorboard - need help on one!

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[surfaceone]

ORIGINAL: carling

Surfaceone,

Here's a couple more photos of the 66 bottle.  I thought it was GG until I saw the little back label.

Hey Rick,

Thanks for the additional photos, and excellent internet blood hounding. The letterhead font on that Cass Sunstein reminds me of the C.S. & Sons label.

I wanna know your secrets to this underfloorboard cache finding. I'm imagining that there is more than a little floorboard rending that goes into something like this.

Could not miss the 6 degrees of seperation to the Administration's Regulatory Czar.

"Once we know that people are human and there's some Homer Simpson in them,
then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them." Cass Sunstein, 2008​

 

[surfaceone]

Surfaceone,  your memory is good,  I did find another stash awhile back.

Hey Rick,

I believe one of your first, if not your first bottles in the blue pages, was An Attic Find.

Last year you had another Phenomenal Attic Adventure.

I wanna know more on the secrets of antique atticing, please...

 

[GACDIG]

Love the litho on the Slivovitz. Must of been fun finding these goodies.[]

 

[carling]

Surfaceone.......Geez, that was an old post you pulled up of mine. And you found the more recent one, too.

Well, there's not too much to tell on the attic hunting. I get the opportunity to get into some condemned houses before they tear them down. My buddy has a contact at a demo company, and he would get a list of houses getting bulldozed. We would have permission to get in before they ripped them down, which was awesome.

All I use is a flashlight and a mirror to look under the floorboards. It seems like it takes about a hundred houses before I find anything.

If the attic has been insulated, forget it. Insulation is my enemy. I also find a lot of ruined labels from water damage (leaking roofs), or rodent damage (leaking bladders).

It also has to be an attic that when they laid the flooring, they left a gap before the flooring meets the sloped roof. It's common in the old bigger houses around here. Usually its a few inches to a couple feet gap, big enough to reach under and hide some bottles.

I forgot to mention, got to watch out for the racoons. They love those abandoned attics, plus they crap everywhere which sucks. I once looked under one floorboard and there were two sleeping baby racoons curled up together. I didn't see mama , but I got the hell out of there fast!

 

[surfaceone]

Hey Rick,

Many thanks for the fine points of condemned attic fishing. I've been in a handful of condemned houses before they were torn down. I must admit, it scares the hockey sticks outta me. I generally hunt alone, and have found disaterously rotted floor boards and stairs in a few of these old wrecks. I always imagine disturbing the undead crackhead...or waking up the next day in the basement with a broken leg...[8D]

Do you attic fish with a buddy? Go armed? You've certainly had remarkable success, after a lot of hard work. A major wave of the spade to you!

 

[toddrandolph]

The Saegertown bottle is cool. The aqua crown tops with Saegertown embossed around the shoulder are extremely common in dumps, but never saw one with a label.

I used to do the same thing with the condemned houses in Cleveland, but my contact now has a different job with no access. It was fun, but I never found anything really good. I did get into one of the hospitals before it was torn down and got some decent stuff out of there. I don't mind dirt and rodents and rotting floorboards, but the condition that some of the tenants left the houses in when they moved out is to say the least, very disturbing. I quickly learned that anything wood or porous is usually not salvageable. It's impossible to remove the smell of roaches and filth.

 

[carling]

Surfaceone,

Yes, definitely with a friend most of the time, and armed. Not much area left in Cleveland that isn't dangerous.

Twice I've almost fallen through floors, once in a stairwell and the other time in an attic. Both times I fell up to my armpits, but my arms stopped me between the floor beams and I was able to yank myself up. I did get some nice bruises, but luckily that was it. When I almost fell through the attic floor, I would have landed in a bedroom on top of a mattress some homeless person had been sleeping on, so I probably would have been alright except for bed bugs.