Tom, I bet most people don't know that you also collect antique horse buggies and restore cook stoves and can talk about just about anything old. Wish you would share some of that here on this channel!!
There is one video I found accidentally years ago where he talks about a buggy he is repairing. It was interesting. Agree, content on those topics would be great!
I love your slow easy delivery and patience…you seem to love all things old and respect them. I do too and that’s why you are gaining a steady following I’m sure. God bless!
In Britain would it be ketchup or brown sauce/A1? Both have Worcestershire. Heinz's version was minus alcohol (perfect for Prohibition states) and plus vinegar. "A relatively new company called Heinz introduced its famous formulation in 1876, which contained tomatoes, distilled vinegar, brown sugar, salt and various spices. They also pioneered the use of glass bottles, so customers could see what they were buying."
I have only recently rediscovered you. If i understand things correctly, you have control over this channel....unlike the previous one. You look so much happier! I am very glad for you!!!
Hi Tom , all those light bulbs reminded of A story about my grandmother who was born in the late 1800's . She told my mother to make sure she put A bulb right back in if she took one out because the electricity would all drain out . LOL ! Please keep on with your awesome videos !
Good one! There were actually warning signs on some hotel rooms about it having electric switches in them. They were really afraid of electricity when it first came out, like it was a health hazard or something.
They loved their Ketchup lol. Tom glad u have ur own channel, u seem like ur more happier and outgoing. Love watching ur channel. Tracy from Louisville, Kentucky
Every time you say you noticed a sunken area, I get both excited and flummoxed-I don’t know if I could ever train myself to be so observant! Thanks for another fascinating dig
Hi from Australia 🇦🇺. Thanks Tom love your channel and you’re always good value. Whatever you dig up, it’s interesting. You show the love to everything. Do you do your own laundry 😂 and if it’s extra muddy do you just throw it out .. especially the gloves? Curious. PS we call ketchup.. Sauce. That’s tomato sauce. We have HP brown sauce by appointment to Her Majesty the Queen.
Just loving how much happier you sound in these new videos. I don’t know if it’s because you took a break from digging, or because of a change in circumstance, or some combination, but it’s wonderful to hear you sounding so much more lighthearted and enjoying yourself. As much as I enjoyed your other videos, your “new attitude” makes these even more fun!
Hi Tom. Your one of my favorite RU-vid. I gotta tell you that I really appreciate the knowledge you pass on, not to mention the fabulous finds. You are always respectful and professional, which is also much appreciated. That being said, do you ever think about posting an auction with your finds? I for one, would be VERY interested. Thanks again Tom, for all you do.😊
I have some pieces that I would sell, I just haven’t had much free time. I have a couple projects coming to a close, though so I may be able to get an online store going.
The cooking must’ve been bad if they needed all that catsup! 😂 lots of bottles found. I’m glad you continued with your channel, I like to watch you did in your stinky old holes! 😂
They had a hard time keeping goods from going rancid back then.. so they masked everything with sauces ketchup mustard.. whatever they could do to cover the taste.. 😊
Hi Tom, Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge! Since starting this channel you seem so much happier/lighter. The iron piece you said you weren’t sure about…just before the 30 min mark looks like a piece from a small fire grate. I grew up with a Franklin stove as our source of heat and the piece reminded me of one of the foot pieces. Just a guess. Being an immediate thought….love watching the digs and the history 🎉😊 Lois
Tom, the best to you and yours. Just found u a couple months ago, and by your voice, realized, had seen u before. Been working in kitchen, listening , and look when hear u get excited. As a kid, growing up in southern W.V., back in the sixties, finding a new dump site, made the day!!!
Okay they showed the Snow White trailer and they totally gave into the fans!🤣🤣🤣 She was like I don't need no man, and they showed her with a man holding hands, damn made me bust out laughing...
Great digs! Got to thinking some of those bottles have been buried as long as some peoples lifetimes, ie: the bottles were buried, a person was born, the same person died, then you came along and dug it up. Gives you a different perspective on how long some of that stuff has not seen the light of day. Keep on digging!
The flavoring extracts were possibly used in concocting cocktails instead of all being for baking purposes. Ketchup to help mask foods, extracts to mask alcohol.😮
Bottle hunters don't seem impressed when finding ketchup bottles, but they're my favorite!---Interesting trivia about the Watkins bottle line! I wonder when that feature stopped. My family used to buy Watkins, Jewel T, Fuller Brush products, often from door-to-door salesmen.---Train tracks across the street...travelers drinking the booze during their stop over? And maybe a bakery in town that provided baked goods for why there wasn't more in the way of baking evidence?---The sound quality today was intense, felt like I was right there in the hole next to you!---How many bottles came home with you! And how many was the property owner interested in keeping!---And as always, the birdsong in the background, since I can't be there to hear it for myself.
Excellent dig as always, just miss seeing the old advertising for the various companies you uncover, but obviously that adds time to the editing, and you would rather be digging up more history. Don't blame you, I'd be digging every day, love the channel, keep that trowel going.
At 10:00-10:02 there was a really nice spoon loosened up but just got scraped away, hope you saw it with the loose dirt. Love to see all that is found not just the glass jars?
I have a Burnetts Cocanain hair product bottle is it the same maker as the Burnetts bottle you found?I was watching on u-tube the other day there is an incandescent light bulb like the ones you find that has been working for 105 years!Its never been touched or cleaned,pretty cool!I also found 30 years ago an embossed dark green Palmers perfume bottle with a metal crown top!Great dig guys!
A whole example of the Dakotas oldest known bottle: a cobalt blue soda from Fred Schnaubers bottling works of Yankton, Dakota Territory (1869). I’ve found many pieces of them over the years
@@thecatsmeowfromny Salt & pepper were the only spices in any northern kitchen of my youth. Every restaurant has ketchup bottles on the tables! When we first moved to Albuquerque for Dad to get his Master's, we learned about Mexican food by first eating canned refried beans & canned tamales. Then we lived next door to a Hispanic couple who introduced us to the real things, and I just kept trying new foods over the years. When we made our version of enchiladas at a family gathering at the Farmstead in ND, my paternal Grandmother was willing, but my Grandpa wouldn't eat anything spicier than black pepper!
I would kind of expect the hotel had an electric light plant. I don’t think alternating current power plants were until 1918. So this would be DC power
Usually the use of ketchup back then was to make older or bad meat more palatable, so they either regularly served poor quality meat or just had a bad cook.
My observation of the many soda bottles: I'm guessing that some young rascal would go in to the storage- guzzle a soda and get rid of the evidence the pit. Did those bottles have some sort of return for deposit? You will have to answer that for me.
Always a pleasure to watch you dig, but I was wondering when you were gonna say something about the silverware that seem to be a lot of it in there that you missed
We had a few pieces that were fairly crusty. I found a couple silver plated spoons the other day in an 1880s pit in Grand Forks. I’ll be cleaning them up and posting them on my FB. They look fairly ornate
Some are kept, sold, given to the property owner and donated to museums. If no one is interested we throw them back. I’m hoping to add more details in the vids this winter once the ground freezes. Things have been a bit chaotic lately.
Tom, so what lets you know how big to make the hole? Seems like you could really dig big holes if you wanted to. I would love to just dig and dig. Always loved the dirt. Awesome bottles today. ❤❤❤
I am wondering with all those ketchup bottles, did they have mustard back then ?? Always enjoy watching too see what you find and when it was made and how it was. The history so interesting.
American A.1. Sauce advertisement was only from 1906, A.1. was officially registered as a trademark in the US in 1895, and imported and distributed in the United States by G. F. Heublein & Brothers in 1906. (Its established popularity took several years combined with use during WW1) prior to this, ketchup was the preferred topping for the preferred menu item… steak. 🥩 In 1824, Henderson William Brand, a chef to King George IV of the United Kingdom, created the original “brown sauce” on which A.1. is based. [1] The term "A.1." originated as a ship insurance term in the UK to describe a "first rate" ship. The “brown sauce”, was marketed as a condiment for "fish and fowl", So “Brown Sauce” for fish & fowl became … A1 Steak Sauce in 1906 No surprise to all the ketchup bottles… it was all they had 😊
Hi Tom, do you think their might be an old menu some where in the towns history records or maybe someone who collects town history? It would be great to see pictures or other ephemera of the places you dig.
Tom, what’s the best way to send you info about a possible dig site? My great-great-grandmother had a restaurant in Hilger, Montana, in Fergus County. The building block also had a hotel, drug store, and barbershop according to the 1916 Sanborn map. It was built in September/October 1911 and burned down on June 6, 1931. I have the names of the current property owners of the plot and those adjoining it, and a photo of the building from 1915.
