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Daniel Meyer
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« on: February 14, 2010, 05:53:47 PM »

Those that have been following along our various adventures with old buildings might recall that we bought an 1890(ish) gothic debatable commercial building, complete with tower.

This building has been a pharmacy downstairs since it was built. It's been rearranged a couple times, some merchandise no longer carried, the soda fountain taken out...new ceilings...you know, typical changes. It was doctors' offices upstairs until around the 1960's or so...the upstairs has been mostly vacant since (and thus, filled with junk from wall to wall).

Along comes us. We are, apparently the 3rd owners. We're not a pharmacy so just as a starting point, we are cleaning it out to the core.

You might imagine some interesting things can be found in a 120 year old building...and you'd be right. Why, I have no less than 20 cash registers...from every concievable era...and printers! Printers of every make and model...printers progressing over the years! Dozens! All of them broken of course...Oh, and then there's the cases of labels/receipt blanks left over for each and every one of the broken printers...

And remind me to someday tell you about the stuff...I can't tell you about.

But that's not the story here. The trash is the story here...something like 35 giant contractors bags full so far...maybe 3000 pounds hauled out so far...

So today, in a little used and obviously forgotten store-room (nook under the stairs) we found the ticking time bombs...

Cokes so old they had eaten through the can. 20 oz plastic bottles so old that they were smushy as there was no pressure left in them. Some glass bottles. When's the last time they made 20 oz glass bottles? Oh, and the older style too...the tall narrow glass bottles with the crimped on metal caps? Except the caps were corroded through.

And then there's the juice.


Cases of it.


I think the color's a little off on this batch...what about you? Maybe it needed refrigeration for the last decade or so?
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Daniel Meyer
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« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2010, 06:19:59 PM »

Do some research about the old Coke bottles. Some are worth a few $$$
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ArmyValker
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« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2010, 06:24:46 PM »

It's still good, just shake it a little bit... 2funny
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Ratdog
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« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2010, 06:29:40 PM »

LOL... years ago, while cleaning out the basement... I found cases of canned "egg nog".  I remember seeing this stuff in the basement of the church I grew up in (from the mid 60's)... it'd been "given away" over the years to different members.  It would seem that mom/dad had taken a case or three home too.  Some of the cans were bulging... some were completely "intact", yet, felt as though they were "empty".  I was vewy vewy cawfuwl when I transported 'em to the dump.   Shocked
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