against the wind
Platinum Member
- Joined
- Jul 27, 2015
- Messages
- 24,797
- Reaction score
- 24,982
- Golden Thread
- 0
- Location
- Port Allegheny, Pennsylvania
- 🏆 Honorable Mentions:
- 1
- Detector(s) used
- E-trac, Excalibur, XP Deus, & CTX 3030.
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Today, I hit a spot that I passed on my way home from a hunt last Friday. I'm really partial to Hills with grass and lots of shade trees.
To get an idea of when human traffic started to get a little heavier in this neighborhood, I Googled in the Apartment Builing Address that was directly across from the hill that showed promise. It was built in 1927. That's good.
Then I Googled in the local train station. It opened in 1920. That's good too. When people were given the opportunity to use Mass Transit to get to work in the city,, they moved into the neighborhoods that were about an hour's ride from the city. It was kind of like going home to the country after a day of work in the city.
Now look at those dates.
Although Willis Carrier built his first Air Conditioner in 1902, residential air conditioning sales didn't take off until the 1950's. Yep, give me a lawn with some shade trees that stood across from a few old apartment buildings and you have an area that was a place where tenants would gravitate to,, to escape the heat of their apartments.
Today's hunt seems to prove my theory, which I have applied numerous times over the years.
My finds for the day were: 13q 13d, 2n, 49 memorials, 9 wheat pennies, (46, 47(2), 48, 49(2), 50, 53d, & 56), 2 Mercury Dimes, (20s & 43), a 1959d Roosevelt Dime, 2 Silver Washington Quarters, ( 47 & 59d), a 925 Silver Ring, a NYC Transit Token, (5 borough Pentagram), a key, a marble, (Good find, as I have lost most of mine), an EBS Pin, some copper and a SUPER PLATE??
To get an idea of when human traffic started to get a little heavier in this neighborhood, I Googled in the Apartment Builing Address that was directly across from the hill that showed promise. It was built in 1927. That's good.
Then I Googled in the local train station. It opened in 1920. That's good too. When people were given the opportunity to use Mass Transit to get to work in the city,, they moved into the neighborhoods that were about an hour's ride from the city. It was kind of like going home to the country after a day of work in the city.
Now look at those dates.
Although Willis Carrier built his first Air Conditioner in 1902, residential air conditioning sales didn't take off until the 1950's. Yep, give me a lawn with some shade trees that stood across from a few old apartment buildings and you have an area that was a place where tenants would gravitate to,, to escape the heat of their apartments.
Today's hunt seems to prove my theory, which I have applied numerous times over the years.
My finds for the day were: 13q 13d, 2n, 49 memorials, 9 wheat pennies, (46, 47(2), 48, 49(2), 50, 53d, & 56), 2 Mercury Dimes, (20s & 43), a 1959d Roosevelt Dime, 2 Silver Washington Quarters, ( 47 & 59d), a 925 Silver Ring, a NYC Transit Token, (5 borough Pentagram), a key, a marble, (Good find, as I have lost most of mine), an EBS Pin, some copper and a SUPER PLATE??
Upvote
17
My experience tells me that you can research all you want and dream that your intuition is good, but google can't show you how many times the target location has been hunted thoroughly or cherry picked.
