Pavement Busting Garden Project Yields Goodies from Yesteryear

[mlw67]

Back at the end of September I stumbled upon a garden project in process behind one of the local public schools here in Portland.

Pavement that had been in place since the 1950s had been removed for a community garden project, and I happened to get there the day after they finished removing the asphalt and the gravel underneath it.

I hunted this site as often as I could without interfering with my regular schedule, the school hours, the school's after school activities, the garden project workers, rain, and darkness. Which meant that unfortunately, I didn't have a lot of time and I had to leave a lot of items there. Mostly just large deep items--you know, like jars full of old coins.

It was a fun hunt though, and I got one good grid in before they brought in tons of topsoil.

 

[EDDE]

First

 

[PAULWYO]

WOW WTG COOL DIGS

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Some nice digs there, you earned every one of them

 

[Tin Nugget]

Great digs and your post was nicely done.

 

[seger98]

Neat spot!, Nice finds..

 

[sscindercoop]

Sweet finds

 

[ModernMiner]

What a great post & super pictures.
Nice variety of goodies. Congrats on the old silver.
-MM-

 

[halfdime]

Nice finds! Just goes to show how much you have to dig to retrieve the good stuff.

 

[BobinSouthVA]

yeah gotta love those broken fence pieces, they drive me nuts everytime.

Thanks for sharing your neat hunting spot.

 

[Kiros32]

Nice finds and an excellent presentation of your photos.

 

[Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.)]

Good job

 

[vayank54]

Good job. It's always a good idea to check anyplace that was built on years ago as they did not remove and replace dirt like the do now. They would mostly build on or pave over what was there. The 2 frame looking pieces in the pic of the what zits are parts of clocks.

 

[kilmer]

Wow, awesome digs. I think that is everyone's dream to make that old nasty pavement go away. At least long enough to let us look underneath.
Way to be alert.

HH, Don

 

[JerV3]

Those are some nice finds.

Way to go on saving them before it's another 50 yrs till they bust it up again.

HH Jer

 

[johnnyi]

Great post! It's wonderful seeing it all!

 

[creeper71]

I think your No date SLQ is 1917 or 1927 I can barely see a 7 as last digit.

 

[creeper71]

I think your No date SLQ is 1917 or 1927 I can barely see a 7 as last digit.

came back a looked again i think it's definitely 1927

 

[terpfan]

I think your No date SLQ is 1917 or 1927 I can barely see a 7 as last digit.

Good call Creeper1. My hunch would have been that its a 1917, since in 1927 the date was recessed and a bit more protected from wear.

 

[Old River]

Thanks for sharing. I loved it.....