- Feb 3, 2009
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- Detector(s) used
- Deus, Deus 2, Minelab 3030, E-Trac,
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
Morning everyone
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Bravo 👏👏👏 well said !!An example of how a generation reacted to the great depression.
Photos exist. Journals and reports and more.
But most folks were pinched hard.
A site on of very near water out of the normal traffic of a community with rails near can be expected to turn up something.
Something of people who had little. But were fortunate kind of to be mobile enough to seek something better.
Ironically in cases seeing trains with transients seeking anything better headed the direction the first group had already left.
A single well worn coin As ever throughout time could have meant an important difference in the right hand. Even that only penny on an acre where many people used to "camp".
No bottle? No tin can? Doesn't mean both didn't visit.
A broken bottle? Why? An accident? Or during prohibition being broken as was required in certain regulations?
I carried one hunting for some years. (Well during hunts over a period of time. I took a couple breaks when seasons were closed, ha ha..)
Like many others of it's kind from the era you can read , "Federal Law Prohibits Sale or Reuse of this bottle".
The cord holding it's cork got snagged one too many times nd popped the cork loud. So another "recycled" container carried water while hunting instead.
Stuff could be squirreled around such sites.
A great treasure? Maybe in one per country. (?)
But as resources. A lard pail perhaps. A bottle . Much could be done and to each.
Worked with a guy who's country suffered dearly in WW2. Well he did too.
One result was his pack ratting almost anything. I won't detail too much but broken rubber gloves for example.
I hauled cartloads of stuff to the dumpster he had in our work area (per my bosses instruction.)
Until you have nothing. Absolutely nothing and no resources you can utilize (for multiple reasons) and folks around you are gaunt and wirse.... You can't imagine.
But when detecting or searching old sites or buildings or communities... Sometimes a cold feeling has a reason.
Or a sight of an old item has a grim to it.
We're saying goodbye to the majority of the great depression bitten folks. And the war rationed folk.
The boards on hardwood studs , studs exposed interiors instead of plastered lath white washed walls folks.
And they were the rich ones!
Contrast such with actual wealth or precious objects or resources.
And unless working leads that actually involve the minority of local "treasures" , keep in mind that date gone coin was worn out for a reason.
And that shoe sole in an odd place was too. Why in that clump of rotten board? Look at the nail pattern it became a hinge with. Complain there's no silver? The prior shelters occupants probably didn't. They knew why.
Bravo 👏👏👏 well said !!
That’s cold early in the winter
I’ve thought it would have crashed already but it just keeps going. I just looked and it’s down to 5700 ish. But still 1400 up for the year.View attachment 2177125What Caused the Stock Market Crash of 1929—And What We Still Get Wrong About It
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Mornin all.
Am I bored , nothing to do?
Day late but still need to take trash to main road for Mon. pickup.
Still need to change clocks too.
A couple things off (like replacing cloths) but I'll leave it alone. They do well in their efforts.
I like that they used some period money. (We can see the red and blue on the paper notes.)
In an "in between" place I found half a match case.
Bo's often had a "jungle" within range of train slowing areas, but out of range of easy attention.
Note there were layers to a jungle. Bums and alcoholics and tramps (and worse) were not Bo's. And Bo's wouldn't camp with them even if sharing the same "jungle".
Water a bonus but water on the site I am considering revisiting is some few minutes walk to non community water.
But then there were cottages ect. there long ago too. Putting the in between site between the communities feature of a lake and the village with the tracks the other side of the small village.
(Much of the businesses and buildings were along the tracks until a train set fire to them.)
Depending on the season from where the match case piece was recovered , the hotel would be in sight.
Not a bad place to be a visitor/stranger as non familier faces would be expected in such an area.
Told a shy nephew I could take him to the main street he lived near and we could work it like folks his Grandpa knew. Or did himself.
Then leave notes accordingly , only promoting business at gracious ones..
Not these same ones because I am not living on the road today. . But why not?
Friday fish dinner $12.00 at our local dive/joint.I’ve thought it would have crashed already but it just keeps going.