My great grandfathers bottle
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My great grandfathers bottle
. Found this bottle at a display in the ghost town of Bode. My great grandfather ran this company. Pretty neat!
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Re: My great grandfathers bottle
That is so cool I have my GGF's 5 gallon whiskey jug with no provenance . Greatest value is to me and some of my kids . It is my intention to someday refill it and have it sittin in my living room until my kids open it for my wake .
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Re: My great grandfathers bottle
I have an almost similar story. When I lived with my father and stepmother, we lived on what used to be the Austin Powder Farm. It was an almost self-sustaining community, that manufactured dynamite. They had their own post office, general store, employee housing(which we lived in), train stop, etc. They even used to raise Beef-alo. Basically a cow-buffalo hybrid. It was in the town of Glenwillow, just south of Solon, Ohio. After a hidden store of dynamite went off(comparable to a simultaneous thunderstorm/earthquake), I was no longer allowed to play in the woods. Well... We were visiting family in Indiana, and found a near mint condition crate from the Austin Powder CO, at a random antique store. They wanted $225, and this was back in '92.
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We are hoping to look around at the local antique stores to find one of these bottles, the ghost town would not part with it!
If you wear underwear then it's a dress!
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Re: My great grandfathers bottle
A worthwhile quest . Check out TREASURENET . They are friendly folks and have a bottle section for collectables . Someone there might be holding one of those with no specific attachment to it that they might part with .Bigbob wrote:We are hoping to look around at the local antique stores to find one of these bottles, the ghost town would not part with it!
If you ain't the lead dog in the team , the scenery never changes . Ga Flatwoods made my avatar and I want to thank him for that .
Don't drink water , fish fornicate in it .
Don't drink water , fish fornicate in it .
Re: My great grandfathers bottle
Thanks truckinbutch, I'll check that out. My other great grandfather came from France ,opened the first French laundry in S F during the gold rush. Made enough money to buy land and started a vineyard. Made a burgandy! So I guess this is all in my blood
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Yes sir started in Tahoe and drove 395 to bishop
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Re: My great grandfathers bottle
My wife has done some more research on my great grandfather, here are some advertising cards from the company. It seems also that my GGF was also in a book titledMen of The Pacific Coast, a kind of who's who at the turn of the century
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Sorry bout that don't know why the first one posted three times!
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Re: My great grandfathers bottle
So as a Christmas present my wife was able to get a California bottling bottle!!
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Re: My great grandfathers bottle
Good stuff there Bob there are so many kids today that have no clue where they came from and don't care it kills me.
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Re: My great grandfathers bottle
Way cool. May just have to up your offer on that bottle.