A Strange Sink Spot Under the Sidewalk Leads to a 140 Year Old Structure Full of Old Valuables
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- Опубліковано 25 тра 2023
- Excavating a 12 foot deep privy at the former site of the Huber residence in Yankton, South Dakota.
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Love these digs. As a very young girl in the 60’s (8 or 10ish) my 2 brothers and I would go to local home dump sites for just this type of finds. We’d bring our finds home and carefully wash them up. My parents were local antique dealers and would sell lots of our finds at the nearby flea market. A lot of money was made back then. My favorite personal finds were a very small carnival glass medicine bottle (sold for $180) and about 100 beautiful old straight razors. Absolute gold mine. For a while I harvested broken pieces too and cemented the pieces into flower patterns on glass vases & votives. Won art awards for that. I still have 1 small vase with forget me not flowers made of broken glass. All was good until someone told where our favorite spots were. Then I moved on to making copper & glass bead jewelry (found a small batch of glass beads, and copper wire , got me started on that) & macrame belts & things like that. Sold like hot cakes ! Still crafting with nature finds, and just about anything that speaks a new life to me.
Like being a kid again finding cool stuff and making things with it.
Very smart ideas!!
Sorry about the Chatty Cathy giving away your sites
I think this is a made up story.
I bet the people who used that outhouse back in the day, never dreamed someone would come along 100 years later and dig it up to find what they threw down in it. Love your videos.
120 - Plus years not just 100 years.. 20 years makes a difference whether you Agree or disagree there is no question about that...
That's what I always think of when watching, and by extension, I think about the things I throw away as trash that will be dug up by someone more than a century from now. Interesting to think about
I was 9 years old before I seen real tolit . It was outside
Yeah they didn't care and neither should we!
Eagerly digging in the old outhouse site!
I wish I had access to the yard that I grew up in Grand Rapids Michigan. My dad said our house was built over top of an old city dump & the house dates back to 1890. Dreaming of being archaeologist, I used to dig up old pieces of porcelain plates and stuff right in the backyard when I was 10-12 yrs old. That's almost 50 years ago today.
Go ask if you can dig.
Hi there, fellow GR resident
All of these things would look amazing in my kitchen!
Hi Muskegon here
😎 cool
We were at a family property many years back when I was about 14 (50 years ago) where my great great grandparents house once stood and my sisters were finding some cool cobolt glass bottles and other bottles in a depressed area that backed up to a hill. When I told them that it was most likely the remains of and old outhouse they immediately lost interest even though I told them that all of the "crap" was long gone. I took over and found a bunch of similar objects that you found such as remedy and alcohol related bottles.
Thanks for the flashback!!
Me and Father who own a land scaping company did just that I was digger got three feet down found a top to a street lamp which wasn't detached then I turn right started digging on a hunch found the top of a door with glass dug it out opened just enough my dad couldn't get in side a entire lady's dress shop everything still inside still smelt of smoke we just found the lost burnt City of Memphis yes really amazing!!!; )
its amazing to me that your pulling out 140 year old bottles in south Dakota USA which were made 5 miles away from me in Liverpool in England over 4000 miles away
A couple of young guys dug up the old outhouse on our property. The found numerous bottles etc and also the head of a porcelain doll. We kept the head. It lay on the cabinet in the laundry room for several months. The house developed an odor that got worse each day. After checking everything we could think of, we took that head and pitched it. The smell left.
😊
Maybe it had bad breath?
Well, it was sitting in the soil of a privy for a century I mean think about it. It was literally marinating in human leftovers. Ewww. Did you name it Dolly doody head?
old broken things arent worth. They were not past times, they are not now.
Dang if that’s an old outhouse the stuff he’s finding must have really been hard on the digestive track and really hurt coming out! Holy Smokes!
Yeah old bottles. Ouch!
Watching your videos always reminds me of when I was a kid. In the early 80's we lived next to the old town dump (used from the 1890's to the 40's) we would dig bottles and other relics. I still have a few items from those digs.
That cobalt bottle is killer, great dig. Enjoyed it very much.
If you excavated more carefully, you wouldn't break so many pieces. That large crock at about 15:40, I heard it crack as you yanked it from the ground, and you can see from the broken edges that they were fresh, never exposed to the elements - until you stumbled in. I enjoy seeing the things you find, but I hate seeing them mistreated. Be more careful!
Agree.
as much as he does it, (digging) it is expected. What I like the best is I am learning about antiques from someone 25-30 years younger than myself, which in itself is amazing. Your vast knowledge of even the coin dot Fenton hand-blown stuff shocked me! My Aunt had a couple of pieces and I remember her telling me about them when I was a kid it was all under lockdown in this big cabinet. My Italian Aunt collected many things, that inspired me at a young age as o one less in my family collects stuff as I do and she mostly had glassware transferware & other rare porcelain pieces, & rare rugs as well I have two from her collection she left me when she does suddenly of a massive stroke. I was just so heartbroken in 1989
rem they were thrown in a dump. Mistreated?? you are a strange person.
@@BrianCarnevaleB26 At least I am able to write a coherent sentence.
I love when you find kids toys, porcelain dolls and figurines! Tells a little more of the story than the bottles and porcelain alone!
Its sooooo Amazing that some of the Labels have survived after over 100 Years in the Ground - wow ! This Pit was LOADED ! Love that Cow and Door Knobs ! Man - some Rare Bottles again - still cant get over all those Labels - I think You hit the Jackpot AGAIN ! Fantastic Video and many Cheers from Australia !!!!
In this case, that cement cap or cover was added at some point to help preserve and limit moisture and leaching. Perhaps the sidewalk also added protection.
I USED TO DIG AT AN OLD DUMP SITE BY GRANT RD & I-10 FRONTAGE RD IN TUCSON,AZ IN THE 90'S. I USED TO FIND OLD BOTTLES, COINS, MARBLES, & OLD TOYS FROM THE 30'S & 40'S. VERY INTERESTING STUFF TO FIND. THE CITY MADE A FRONTAGE ROAD OVER IT & I COULDN'T DIG THERE ANYMORE
This is an old trash pit. Many homes didn't have trash pickup back in those days, so they threw their trash and ashes from the wood stove in pits. Great bottles! Those with the graduated sides (measurements on the side) are worth a bit more. I'd clean them up and sell them, or display them. You prolly have more than $500 worth of bottles, at least. If you can preserve the labels, please do so.
Great funds!
If you don't want to bother selling them, you could sell them as a group, or perhaps consign them at an antique store.
Look up the bottles! Some old bottles can be worth a lotta money... a couple hundred bucks.
Great stuff! Thanks for sharing!
I always enjoy watching you dig up the past. So interesting seeing the different products and packaging used back then.
Hey Tom, I just signed on and like how you operate. I inherited my grandparent's 1879 boarding house in the Catskill Mountains of NY. We've restored most of the ground floor, but upstairs it's '1937' or so. Back in the day everything was discarded out by the barn and I've been finding stuff since I was a kid. For years there were even shells of autos and parts galore out there, but the rust has eaten most of the stuff. Lots of whole and broken glass items, the list is endless. Anything worth half a hoot is fair play to keep for me, and some not that good too. Thanx for the video!
I love hearing the song at the beginning of the video! It makes my heart soar to know another discovery is coming! Kind of like watching Wide World of Disney on Sunday evenings, back in the day! ❤️❤️❤️
This video reminds me of why I love your channel so much. For a while I watched some of your earlier videos remastered and I enjoyed them for the second time. But this is new and exciting and way too deep!! I really was concerned for you but loved every minute of this pit. Especially the paper labels. Be safe and keep having fun. ✌🏻🤟🏼
Love the intact label(s) on these!! Wow!! And the cobalt blue and other unique finds in this pit. Great!!! Thank you!!!😊😊❤
This man's knowledge of bottle history is mind blowing.
We found all kinds of stuff in our yard. My grandfather loves to go on trash digs. He has hundreds of bottles about 300 I think. The oldest date on my house was 1882 when it was sold it’s in the first book of property tracks in our county.
I love your videos! I could watch you guys dig all day, waiting for the next one!❤️
wow ,so much fun watching you find these artifacts ! thanks for researching and adding the info about these items makes for the most interesting viewing , great job !
Love this channel ! Thanks for the historical information as you uncover each find. It mnakes it all that more interesting.
Great finds from this pit, some I haven’t seen before! Love the enamel ware and beautiful blue Ball jar! 🥰
Wow! This privy was full! Thanks for the video, I will being waiting for part 2!
I appreciate your knowledge on all the finds! Great explanation of the history
Nice dig! I noticed a lot of bottles had partial labels on them that I could make out a few letters or words on. For example the beer at 25:59 has two yellow colored words peeking through the dirt (first one looks like it ends in "R", second in "D" maybe fluid?). The medicine bottle at 40:18 looked like it had an intact blue label. Overall there were so many labeled bottles it's hard to believe they have been buried for over 100 years!
After the great Seattle fire. The streets were filled in to raise the ground level to what used to be the second floor of the buildings. People were asked to bring any stable fill they could use to make the fill..
Fast forward to 2008 my brother worked in city construction where they dug up many old hand blown glass bottles and other interesting objects.
I love it when you find labels on glass that's so old! Very kewl Tom 😎
I absolutely love your videos! If you ever get out to Southeast Iowa, the place is littered with old mining towns, one of the coolest of which is the tiny town of What Cheer. At one time, it was a boom town, with dozens of coal mines all within the area and What Cheer was pretty much an epicenter of settlement. It has an opera house that is as old as the town, plus dozens of old and prolific houses still standing. I've found an old mining camp while metal detecting and found no less than 75 mining scrip tokens in a two acre area. I also found a glass pit with 1870s Hero Atlas Mason jars, as well as a bean pot that I'm 80% assembling from pieces I find. Good luck and happy hunting!
Love to watch you dig and find the things you find.
LOVE the facts/history you display!
WOW....are these "TREASURE" from an OLD Outhouse? HOW do you know where to even LOOK!! This is my second video I've watched of you and I LOVE it too!!
I collect ink bottles and get so excited every time you find one! I can't go digging, so I have to rely on other methods in finding them. 😊
What a deep pit! So many treasures.
Always waiting for your new videos, I saw all of your old videos.
I love old abandoned houses and old bottles! This would just be a dream to find a old hole and just get down and dirty! Love these videos! ❤
Cistern digs are best done using a fall-arrest gear.
As I do amid karst. Sometimes what feels safe
can fall without warning into natural or man-made
voids. My first such fall happened in 1964 .
At the risk of sounding like a "safety sally", it might also be a good idea to take measures against potential cave-ins. Trench diggers get killed more frequently from that than you'd expect.
At least it was apparent that had someone there with them. Not the best preparation, but better than nothing.
You knew I was waiting for another dig!
Love your videos Tom!
Keep up the great finds!
Just found you today, I loved hearing that clink when you would find something.
I live on a farm that has a couple of civil war era bottle cisterns still intact. Be interesting to see what has been thrown in those over the years.
contact any local civil war group or battlefield preservation group and see if they would be interested in a dig. there was one done in south dakota ( i think) almost 2 years ago that had lots of shoes, shirt fragments, tin ware, cutlery, buckles, belt remnants and much more found. it was really cool.
@Michael Davie-Leonard There is a battlefield site about a mile away as the crow flies. Sterling Price fled Federal troops through these parts. My little son used to bring me Minie balls by the dozens when we plowed the garden, and once, a spent rim fire cartridge as big as your finger.
What a way to start the weekend! 🎉 Thank you!
Wow that was another deep hole, with some awesome finds. Thank you for sharing 👍🙏❤️
I love that so many of the bottles still have labels. I hope they clean up good.
Tom sure seems to know alot about these old bottles! I'm quite impressed with his tenacity, as well as his knowledge. Wondering: were these bottles and etc. tossed or given to the present owners of the property?
I almost spit my coffee out when he said he realized he's in the outhouse pit 😂 ..shoulders deep and realize it
What finds..!! Never know whats below us...enjoyed. thanks for sharing...keep on digging...🥰
Just stumbled across this video. I was absolutely fascinated. I had no idea that outside loos were used to discard unwanted items. I would love to find treasure like this!
You have found so much history in one dig !! amazing !
All this broken glass and ash, and that distinctive crunchy noise as you dig reminds me of what's left after a house burns down.
I love little bottles ‼️
I get excite watching you dig you never know what your bring out it's so cool
Great work!! Keep digging for that history.
Always enjoy your videos. Lots of interesting stuff that were thrown in outhouses. They made good places for throwing away once used bottles and household paraphernalia. Keep on digging!
I could watch this for hours!! Great finds!!
Anxious for part 2. Great pit.
Im glad a lot of the items were still intact!
Classic stuff, and you are a legendary digger.
Love that cobalt blue bottle , and it looks like you got 10 years of dump on that one , but I bet you got two older pits yet to find , lets hope you find them , Its cool the hot ashes did not break the cobalt bottle , but the bottles with manganese or iron broke , one thing cobalt is used for in metal is it creates heat resistance, who knows maybe it made the blue bottle survive the hot ash clinker
Watching is exciting and soothing at the same time. That's a compliment! 😊
I love those ink bottles. Very stylish and better when they have a unique pattern however fancy they may be 👍🌟
So glad I found your channel, I love looking for items from the past.
Who would've thought that digging up dunny- holes could be so intriguing 😮
Don't know about you, but I wouldn't be digging in a shithouse hole. Soon as he finishes, hope he gets his shots.
What an awesome pit. So many pretty bottles. Love the cobalt blue. Cant wait till the next one Tom. I bet your tired at the end of the day.
Awesome finds! Thanx for sharing!
Thank you for this video. It was fantastic.
Another great video ! Superb content! 😁👍👍
Thank you for the new episode!
Totally riveting. Thank you!
Another awesome video, I never get tired watching you guys.
Can't wait. Great dig.
You're very lucky to have these places to go and dig. :)
I am fascinated with what you have done, keep the videos coming!!
I had carefully preserved family china and other heirloom treasures from my side, and hubby’s. If there were stories attached, I memorized them so that my kids would then know about them, when they acquired them. As adults, I tried to give them their treasures, and they responded by acting like I was trying to give them a disease! They explained that their generation just didn’t want our old “crap.” It didn’t go with their design sense or something. And my heart is broken.
So it does my old heart good to see people of the same generation who love history and cherish antiques. I think Tom is about the same age as my youngest child, who is 33. And Tom risks disease to dig out old outhouse pits to rescue antiques! History won’t be lost when people like Tom are around to save it and share it! Thank you Tom!
😂 Your comment is so funny. This is why I don't want children! The pets get just about everything and a little something for the wife.
Thank you Tom
You just never know what you gonna find! Love the blue glass! UK
Really enjoy your channel! I hope you are having a great summer adventure up North. I’ll send your channel over to my friends!! Have a safe holiday weekend 🌼
Love your videos. I like that you write the information in them.
Amazing, Thank you!
Don’t smile your face will crack. Your taking this to a new level. Your a good looking guy smile.
Love that you have this hobby☺️
This was very interesting to me. I am going to watch part 2 now. 👍🏼
Found your channel again. This is so much fun.😃
Wow, what a great pit! You are one tired puppy! I look forward to the finish!
BADASSERY as always!!! Tom
Thinking the cement cap that you had to bust through had a lot to do with preserving the labels. Great dig!!☺
Amazing finds today! Enjoy your videos.
It always amazes me what you find !
Just ran across this and haven’t watched you in awhile. Happy hunting and I will watch you. 😅
Soo much stuff. You guys are amazing
Wow, I came upon you by accident. I love watching someone who is knowledgeable as well.
Do you ever check to see if any of your milk glass containers glow? I watched another digger in Alabama dig a cold cream container (milk glass) it flowed like crazy. Also the clear glass bottles that have a yellowish hue to it sometimes glows.❤
why would they glow?
@@Scriptorsilentum the old marbles a lot of time had either uranium or magnesium which makes them glow under UV lights. The uranium glows green and the magnesium glows a purple pink color. Their beautiful, their usually white and another color swirled, some all white with a possible slight tinge of yellow to it, some just all white those tend to glow green. Where the reds, oranges, blues, pinks and purples glow purples. Just like the old glass that’s red and yellow fade I call amberina glass glows purple. As does uranium dish’s, trinkets, etc. I hope this helped.
@@kristidavis9945 Exposure to nuclear radiation, even in small doses, is never a good thing. They never knew what these colors meant nor the dangers associated with them. These days uranium and to a lesser extent, magnesium, are only safe to have if treated with the proper care and respect for the metals they actually are.
@@Scriptorsilentum-only when lit by a UV light source.
I think you might be referencing uranium glass? I only recently found out what it was. The clear glass glows like a weird green radioactive (it really is radioactive) green color, and the ceramic glazings were a really unnatural orange clolor. Its really cool seeing people put a Geiger counter next to these old glass objects and they set off the detectors.
That pit was full....didn't see any hutches...but loved every recovery thanks for sharing
Just like a treasure hunt, loved watching
The Cudahy jar appears to have a match striker on the bottom. That would be a marketing ploy...hold your matches after the cold cream was gone.
I like the Fahrney bottles there always nice to find. good dig.
Shame that so many of the things you found down in the hole was damaged by the heat from the ashes and broke. Those are some beautiful bottles that you found that was still in one piece. Would love to get a hold of a beautiful bottle like that blue one.
im impressed by your knowledge of the artifacts