Since we've been on the subject of old dig photos, I thought I would contribute a few of my vintage dig photos of a fun dig 30 yrs. and 30 lbs. ago! These are a couple of pics from the early days of ole AP's whiskey diggins during a Cutter-training mode. I was still fairly new to privy digging at this point, having only dug for 5 or 6 yrs. We got 9 mint globby Cutters that weekend; 1 yellow E. Martin mid-crown, 3 J.F.'s (all flat-top A's), 2 Circles (1 lemon yellow 4 pc and a hammer-whittled 2 pc), 2 Bottled By's, and 1 M.J.H. The 1/5 I'm holding in the photo is a J.F. It rolled out of some clean soil less than a foot down while pulling down the sides of the privy at the end. Boy, was I surprised when that happened! I think that's why only a pic. was snapped of
it, and not the rest of the 1/5's. I'll add something that I recall being interesting..... all of the 1/5's
were lighter shades of amber, ranging from lemon-yellow on the light end, to light orange amber at the darkest. I've always wondered if this guy picked them off of the store shelf like that on purpose, or if it just was a strange coincidence, or just ole AP's luck.....
There were also several mint Western meds. along with the bourbons; Dr. Vincent's Magic Cough Cure San Francisco, Perry's Last Chance, Goldstein's I.X.L. Forida Water, and a Crane & Brigham Florida Water.
What a bourbalicous weekend, incredible. No photos of all the 5ths together ?
ReplyDeleteIs this when Doc Privy was doing his residency after graduating cuma sum digga laude ?
ReplyDeleteHaha ! Yes, I guess you could say that. I was living in the digging dorm (my old van) for the above described dig, which was a road trip. In those early days, affording 4 nights in a motel was out of the question.
ReplyDeleteI still have some of my share of the fifths. Maybe I'll look for them and add a group photo to the post. Unfortunately, I lost the 2 Cirlces during the 1989 Loma Prieta quake.
AP
We did a few "Circle-Ramas" in the past. I might even have a dinosaur picture somewhere around here, but have no idea where.
ReplyDeleteI heard the legendary Kenny Boy Salazar (famous child hand model) once dug over 50 tooled top JH's down in Hunter's Point. I wonder if that boy ever took a camera along on his digs, if I had that luck I'd dam sure have a camera on every dig day.
ReplyDeleteCool... I'd love to see some of your early dig pics Mike ! I heard you guys had at least one major Circle-Rama in "The Point", back in the day.
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Sorry, Anon, but they were all APPLIED. We also dug some dozens from one pit in Oaky-Land. Cameras were new fangledy inventions when we started diggin'. The tripods alone were a bitch! No digitals like we carry religiously in the 21st C.
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