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- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Had to go into town to pick up some kitty food for the wife, so figured I would MD a couple of hours at the soccer field that has been so good to me.. I have gone over the whole thing, but figured I might have missed some things. Amazingly, I have cleaned that place out. Only got one quarter, 2 dimes, and 7 pennies... Then went across the street to the tot lot and found a few clad coins, total was $3.03 for the afternoon... BUT... on the way home, I finally got the nerve to stop by this roadside tavern/bar that I have been eyeballing since I started MD'ing again.. It has a huge grass area around one side, and the whole back, with a huge firepit in the center of it where they have a big bonfire party every weekend, and the place gets packed...
The owner was a really nice old coot, and told me to "knock yourself out" after I introduced myself, my hobby, and asked permission to MD there. He was having a beer with another guy at a table, and after he told me I could, he looked at his friend and said "hell, with all the partying that goes on out there, you will probably find a lot of stuff"... His friend agreed and of course I couldnt thank him enough...
I was going to hit it early sunday AM, as they will have another bonfire on Saturday and Sunday, but I am too excited and think I will get up early and hit it tomorrow... I will, of course, give you all a report tomorrow.. Cross your fingers for me, I cant help but think of how many pocket spills and lost jewelry can happen when people party and get drunk...
The owner was a really nice old coot, and told me to "knock yourself out" after I introduced myself, my hobby, and asked permission to MD there. He was having a beer with another guy at a table, and after he told me I could, he looked at his friend and said "hell, with all the partying that goes on out there, you will probably find a lot of stuff"... His friend agreed and of course I couldnt thank him enough...
I was going to hit it early sunday AM, as they will have another bonfire on Saturday and Sunday, but I am too excited and think I will get up early and hit it tomorrow... I will, of course, give you all a report tomorrow.. Cross your fingers for me, I cant help but think of how many pocket spills and lost jewelry can happen when people party and get drunk...
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HH in 2010 
good luck but i forsee a million pulltabs wich your going to have to dig. i think this spot is going to take patience. hope im wrong. willy
when you walked in there you knew it was a bar, built back in the 1920,s it went dry in the 1970,s and up for sale the new owner ask a bunch of us if we help clean up the place we started by pulling up the corrugated floor which by the way was never lifted until that day it was 80 foot long by 10 foot wide 4 inches high we needed crow bars to get it unstuck over 50 years of spilled beer and old saw dust mix 
and dropped change i mean thousands of coins we needed a shovel !! to get the coins off the floor not to mention jewelry !! dropped into those 1x2 slots of wood ,if we only knew properly half the coins where SILVER !! 
we just dumped each shovel full into a 5 gallon bucket and that was last i saw it 
HH Jim
I guess I assumed that the laws here are the same as in the NW where I am from, that outside beers have to be opened before they are taken outside... Obviously not at this bar! I worked for about 2 hrs before giving up, there are so many bottle tops that with my DD 6X10 coil I cannot even distinguish where one signal ends and the other one starts... Everywhere around there.... I KNOW there are going to be good finds there, but I think it is impossible unless I buy one of those little coils like the 5" concentric...
