Welcome to my Guestbook!
12/28/00 06:54:08
| Name: Randy Shelley |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: any relics |
Occupation: Purchasing Mgr Dillon Precision Products |
Favorite movie: Westerns |
| Age: 43 |
Residence: Phoenix, Az |
Comments:
Interesting website, enjoyed it, good luck on future digs. Looks like you have a wonderful collection.
12/25/00 03:49:16
| Name: Ed Penwell |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: alltypes |
Occupation: autobodyman |
Favorite movie: The green mile |
| Favorite musician or group: tod rundgren |
Age: 44 |
Residence: New Oxford Pa. |
Comments:
Really cool site!
12/23/00 22:15:40
| Name: JK Aker |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: none |
Occupation: Govt Budget Mgr |
Favorite movie: Risky Business |
| Favorite musician or group: Eagles |
Age: 39 |
Residence: Tallahassee, Fl |
Comments:
Have enjoyed your page for sometime now. I always loved finding things as a kid.... arrowheads ... 1848 Penney in grandmother Garden.. never thought to look for bottle as you folks do. Keep up the good and entertaining work.
12/23/00 21:51:07
| Name: Bob Curzon |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: anything old |
Occupation: Dive Store Owner |
Favorite movie: Jaws |
| Favorite musician or group: AC/DC |
Age: 45 |
Residence: Smiths Falls Ontario |
Comments:
Really enjoyed your site. Most of our collectors are SCUBA Divers so most of the bottles come from the deep. Its a great way to expand your odds.
12/22/00 19:54:51
| Name: Scott Padamonsky |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: whatever catches my eye |
Occupation: contract archaeology |
Favorite movie: The Omen |
| Favorite musician or group: Galaxie 500 |
Age: 27 |
Residence: State College PA |
Comments:
Nice web page. A good source of info.
12/22/00 04:43:00
| Name: Dan Grove |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: pre 1900 glass |
Occupation: printer |
Favorite movie: shawshenk redemption |
| Favorite musician or group: pure prarie league |
Age: 30 |
Residence: Yoe,Pa |
Comments:
I've collecting and digging for about 20 years. It
never loses its appeal does it?
12/22/00 00:10:58
| Name: Jolene Boller |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: old bottles/etc. |
Favorite musician or group: Bob Dylan |
Age: 20 |
| Residence: Carroll county |
Comments:
its good to see that you know a treasure when you see one. Enjoyed your site keep up the good diggin.
12/21/00 19:28:43
| Name: keith ozoga |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: upper penninsula |
Occupation: civil engineering tech |
Favorite movie: Braveheart |
| Favorite musician or group: AC/DC |
Age: 28 |
Residence: negaunee/mi |
Comments:
Hi, just quickly viewed your website. Great Site! I'm a collector of mainly UP items but I did do some privy digging downstate. I have a large range of things, best being a Celebrated Nectar and Stomach Bitters from Toledo, Ohio.
I'm sure I'll be visiting your site in the future. Say hi to Dan for me hey I met him at the Kalmazoo show in 99'.
12/21/00 16:45:13
| Name: Skip Blunt |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: Pre 1900 inks |
Occupation: Building Inspector |
Favorite movie: Dances With Wolves |
| Favorite musician or group: Any Country Music |
Age: 61 |
Residence: Wickenburg Ariz. |
Comments:
I really enjoy all your digs and stories. I used to dig the Phoenix area, however this area doesn't produce pontiled bottles. I found one here in 30 years, pontiled umbrella ink. I look forward to more of your stories and photo's. I can only dream. Happy
olidays....Skip....
12/17/00 23:51:49
| Name: L. C. Cash |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: “1858” Masons, Strap sided flasks |
Occupation: Mill worker |
Age: 41 |
| Residence: Youngstown, Ohio |
Comments:
I have been enjoying your articles for some time now. I started collecting in the ‘70s at the young age of 12 or 13. I first herd of “privy digging” when I was in high school. At that time my memories of chamber pots and a back yard privy being the only f
cilities at my Grandmothers house (along with a hand lowered bucket into the well house in the front yard as the only fresh water) were still quite fresh in my young mind. Needless to say I wasn’t interested at all in digging the old thing up! Your articl
s and pictures have given me a new perspective on the idea. I am now seriously considering adding privy digs to my sinkhole and ravine dumpsite digging.
12/16/00 00:20:28
| Name: john |
My URL: Visit Me |
Area of interest in collecting: none |
| Occupation: social work |
Favorite movie: quadrophenia |
Favorite musician or group: sex pistols |
| Age: 36 |
Residence: newport , ri |
Comments:
i bet our town is loaded with old privvy's. if your ever flying through stop on by and we'll go for a dig
12/12/00 20:40:41
| Name: Chris Fowle |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: Historical Info--the stories imagined |
Occupation: Banker |
Age: 34 |
| Residence: New York City |
Comments:
I guess NYC is mostly paved over, but my family owns an old place in Sheperdstown, WV which, I bet has loads of pits. The house is 200+ years old. You've sparked an interest, the site fascinates me. Thanks.
12/09/00 23:29:51
| Name: Donnie Vaughn |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: Civil war relics, old bottles |
Occupation: lab operator |
Favorite movie: Braveheart, Pulp fiction |
| Favorite musician or group: Beatles |
Age: 53 |
Residence: Nashville, Tennessee |
Comments:
I really enjoy your web site and it has been a real inspiration to us. It's the best page out there.Thanks
12/07/00 03:10:38
| Name: Emily |
My URL: Visit Me |
| My Email: Email Me |
Occupation: student |
| Age: 24 |
Residence: Kaneohe, Hawaii |
Comments:
12/06/00 02:08:59
| Name: Robert Merry |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: nothing specific |
Occupation: retired |
Age: 74 |
| Residence: Zanesville, Ohio |
Comments:
I've observed professionals and helped some on sites on my own property and found it really interesting to look into the past. If you ever come through this area you might give me a call. I have several spots that should be looked at including two in yo
r field.
12/06/00 00:33:30
| Name: Ron Wood |
My URL: Visit Me |
| My Email: Email Me |
Area of interest in collecting: bottle digger,( all ) |
| Age: 52 |
Residence: Ind |
Comments:
I'v been to your site many times,each time i get fired up ,ready do dig. Your stories can't come too often.Good work. I can't get over how shollow the holes are. Eight feet norm around here.
11/30/00 03:49:42
| Name: Mark |
My URL: Visit Me |
| My Email: Email Me |
Occupation: Broadcast Engineer |
| Age: 44 |
Residence: Illinois |
Comments:
I was sent a link to your site and have really have enjoyed your hobby. I also enjoy the fact that you have taken the time to share your findings with others on this web page. I may not be digging up anything soon but I can enjoy your efforts. Keep on
igging.....
11/26/00 00:54:38
| Name: Kenny Burbrink |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: Kansas bottles, wife likes cobalts |
Occupation: Maintenance Supervisor |
Favorite movie: Forrest Gump |
| Favorite musician or group: AC/DC |
Age: 33 |
Residence: Halstead, Kansas |
Comments:
Your site has been very inspriational! I recently dug my first privy. Unfortunalty it was all ABM stuff. I am looking forward to more stories. If there is anyone in the Central Kansas area interested in digging privys, let me know.
11/23/00 15:43:11
| Name: John p. Hanley |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: antiques/bottles/coins |
Occupation: arborist |
Age: 37 |
| Residence: staunton va. |
Comments:
I have enjoyed visiting your web page and look forward to talking to you via e-mail.I am very new at this internet thing,and only have two years experience digging. I am looking for all the info. I can find.I also noticed that you are from Mich. Two days
go while digging the same pit I`ve been digging since the begining of this year(thousands of bottles)I dug up a bottle from up your way. It is a medicine bottle/ I assume/.The embossing on the bottle reads:W.C.Kirchgessner Cor.3rd.&Merrick Detroit.Can you
help me with dating this bottle? And how rare it is?I am also interested in finding out how to use and purchase a probe.Your help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
11/22/00 16:39:46
| Name: James Hough |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: medicine bottles with cities names, cobalt bottles, and Armour Laboratories Chicago bottles |
Occupation: AutoCAD designer |
Favorite movie: Titanic |
| Favorite musician or group: Sara Brightman |
Age: 31 |
Residence: Atlanta, GA |
Comments:
Great site! Looks like you guys have fun. I would love to try digging around here if I could find a site and the time. Would love to see what I could find. I have found a few nice pieces over the years but not valuable, not that I would get rid of them! W
uld like to hear of more of your adventures!
11/21/00 00:38:25
| Name: Brandon Hartle |
My Email: Email Me |
Area of interest in collecting: coins and sacramento bottles |
| Occupation: self |
Favorite movie: Starwars/Enemy of the State |
Favorite musician or group: Korn |
| Age: 13 |
Residence: Sacramento, ca |
Comments:
Great site! Enjoy reading your storys. Site taught me a lot about bottles.
Thanks
11/09/00 20:51:19
| Name: steve |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: civil war |
Occupation: chef |
Favorite movie: shawshank |
| Favorite musician or group: faust&lewis |
Age: 36 |
Comments:
I've found more items in my research, in either night soil or trash pits. I wouldn't mind being knee deep(so to speak) in the process.
11/07/00 15:02:08
| Name: Todd Robertson |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: Finding things lost and forgotten, trivia, knowlege, Stories |
Occupation: Bureaucrat, Psychology Grad Student |
Favorite movie: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead |
| Favorite musician or group: Everclear |
Age: 28 |
Residence: Baltimore Md |
Comments:
Great site, I like the narratives, keep it up.
11/07/00 00:46:59
| Name: Glenn |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: bottles |
Occupation: aircraft |
Favorite movie: archeologist |
| Favorite musician or group: blink 182 |
Age: 43 |
Residence: jacksonville FLA |
Comments:
COOL THE BEST EVER NEED MORE LIKE IT,
10/31/00 04:02:24
| Name: Kevin O. |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: Fruit jars ,British cars,softball |
Occupation: Maintenance Super |
Favorite movie: Raising Arizona/ Young Frankenstien |
| Favorite musician or group: Del McCoury |
Age: 43 |
Residence: New Freedom Pa. |
Comments:
I haven't done any digging since I was a kid, looking for old dump sites. Never would have occurred to me to look for privies. That would explain the sink holes in our old houses backyard. I think I'll do some looking this winter. Thanks guys.
10/30/00 20:33:45
| Name: Jim Olson |
My URL: Visit Me |
| My Email: Email Me |
Age: 52 |
| Residence: Kelowna,B.C.,Canada |
Comments:
You have a very neat page and look forward to more
of the same.
10/28/00 09:22:55
| Name: Robert Wilson |
My URL: Visit Me |
| My Email: Email Me |
Area of interest in collecting: Gold |
| Occupation: Student |
Favorite movie: Austin Powers 2 The Spy Who... |
Comments:
This a sick sick web page so i will get my freinds to visit!
10/24/00 19:46:58
Comments:
music
Chemistry
10/24/00 18:02:09
| Name: Bill Ladd |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: metal detecting for relics/ arrowheads |
Occupation: banking |
Favorite movie: Swingers |
| Age: 31 |
Residence: Rhode Island |
Comments:
You guys rule! Bill @ Bottldigr@aol led me here. I was looking for privy digging help, as I mostly metal detect (I was on Antique Roadshow w. 2 slave tags). (see my web site for some pictured relics). I love your day by day cronicles & wish I knew how to
robe. After I metal detect an old house site I'd like to dig the bottles as well! (WE have tons of older homes in New England). How 'bout a "How TO" section for us amatures:)? I just found in woods a stone lined privy I wanna attempt to dig thanx to you g
ys....any goodies I'll let ya know. happy hunting.....Bill
10/21/00 02:33:31
| Name: "Schaef" |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: I hoard everything |
Occupation: ACT, Inc. Iowa City |
Favorite movie: Shawshank Redemption |
| Favorite musician or group: AC/DC |
Age: 41 now |
Residence: Iowa |
Comments:
Like a lost and aimless sojourner who finds himself in a vast and nondescript desert, thirsting for the elusive fluid promise of renewed vitality, and poised upon the perilous precipice of death, so, too, I seek the sustenance of the mysteries revealed th
ough your privy exploits. In other words, dude, I'm almost dying for an update! Looks like you're gonna have to build a new grid to post further dig news. May the Bottle God lift up the light of his countenance upon you, if you post new dig news; but i
not, may he condemn you to a season of ABM pits! LOL
Matt
10/20/00 17:36:20
| Name: Ann Harper |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: Spinning Wheels, vintage knitting patterns |
Occupation: Spinning |
Age: 51 |
| Residence: Abbot, ME |
Comments:
What an interesting site!! We just purchased our home in Maine. In the late 1800's there was a farm on this land. We found what appears to be the old dump site. My husband collects ANYTHING old, so I am sure he will be excavating the dump before long. You
are very interesting young men, and I think what you are doing is just great. Take Care, Ann in Maine
10/19/00 03:27:22
| Name: Garren King |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: Everything I dig up! |
Occupation: Merchandising |
Favorite movie: The Goonies |
| Favorite musician or group: Rush |
Age: 31 |
Residence: Fort Worth, TX |
Comments:
Great site! Very motivational! I'll have to give the metal detector a rest and build me a probe.
10/17/00 03:13:33
| Name: jimmie |
My URL: Visit Me |
| My Email: Email Me |
Area of interest in collecting: none- I through my junk down the privy : ) |
| Residence: US |
Comments:
great site. you have a neat hobby and I "dig" your bottle collection : )
10/17/00 03:13:25
| Name: jimmie |
My URL: Visit Me |
| My Email: Email Me |
Area of interest in collecting: none- I through my junk down the privy : ) |
| Residence: US |
Comments:
great site. you have a neat hobby and I "dig" your bottle collection : )
10/16/00 23:45:43
| Name: meeks malone |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: grunt |
Occupation: housekeeper |
Favorite movie: the birds |
| Favorite musician or group: the birds |
Age: 44 |
Residence: iowa |
Comments:
keep on diggin!!
10/15/00 05:17:45
| Name: Jennifer |
My Email: Email Me |
Area of interest in collecting: blue bottles, stamps, rocks,neat looking anything |
| Occupation: Pampered Chef Consultant/Domestic Goddess |
Favorite movie: The Neverending Story |
Favorite musician or group: Beatles |
| Age: 22 |
Residence: Rifle, Colorado |
Comments:
I found this page thanks to the Geocities Newsletter. I thought to my self "What the heck is this guy doing with outhouses??", so I had to see. Well, I was surprised... I had no idea that people threw all that stuff into their outhouse (but it makes sen
e now that I think of it). I live in pretty historic town and have never wondered about those weird square dents in peoples yards until now.(My mom has one in her back yard, as a matter of fact) Maybe when my son is older I too will be compelled to dig
p old privies. Thanks for such a neat website and good luck with your bottle finding!!
10/14/00 18:55:56
Comments:
hi .. i recently signed yer guest book and then wanted to email ya but the only possible was to open outlook which i am unable to use on the pc here at work .. perhaps ya could send me an e-address to my bigfoot address? .. my question was mainly, are the
e any links to privies in general?
10/14/00 17:57:19
| Name: steve Ar |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: old stuff nobody else wants |
Occupation: customer service |
Favorite movie: brazil |
| Favorite musician or group: dar williams |
Age: 47 |
Residence: 933 18th, des moines, ia 50314 |
Comments:
really good page .. went thru it thoroughly and especially appreciated the link to 7questions .. keep diggin!
.. sR
10/13/00 22:18:54
| Name: Cherie |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: Titanic memorabilia |
Favorite movie: Titanic |
Favorite musician or group: Lara Fabian |
| Age: 22 |
Residence: Texas |
Comments:
I love your site!! It's so interesting that you can find so many treasures where most people would never look. LOL The pictures are awesome, and you tell the story of each dig very well. Keep sharing, and we'll keep coming back. :)
10/13/00 21:48:59
Comments:
I just wanted to say this is one of THE best websites I have ever been to. I think I've been on it for hours looking around!! It is SO interesting and it makes me want to dig in my own backyard, but our house was built in 1924 so its not old enough. =(
I am not familiar with the bottle collecting 'lingo' so a definition page would be useful for words like 'pontiled'. =) Thanks! Sharon in Utah.
10/13/00 16:00:39
| Name: Scott Willis |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Occupation: Mechanic |
Favorite movie: The Matrix |
Favorite musician or group: Pink Floyd |
| Age: 35 |
Residence: Utah |
Comments:
Hi, it's kinda interesting to read about "Scott and Dan" because my brother is named Dan, and as long as we grew up, all we heard was people making references to "SCOTT AND DAN", so to read that on your page here brings back memories. Your digs are very
nteresting, along with your findings. Nice web site. See ya, Scott.
10/13/00 15:56:42
| Name: Janet Fink |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: anything not nailed down. |
Occupation: Former Delta Airlines Dispatcher FAA121.0 |
Favorite movie: The Lion in Winter/The Man Who Would be King |
| Favorite musician or group: ABBA/QUEEN |
Age: 49 |
Residence: 105 Presidio Park, Peachtree City, Ga. 30269 |
Comments:
Your site is terrific. Great pics, good explanations, and a wonderful service to American Archeology. We have many old homes/sites here in the South, so if you ever wish to continue your hobby during the winter where it isn't winter, let me know and you c
n use our spare bedroom suite. I am an old aviation nut, too. I was the first woman to dispatch a flight for Delta Airlines, actually not so long ago, 1987. Women weren't allowed in Flight Control til they inherited me from Western Airlines. Good luck in
your future endeavours.
Janet Fink
678 364-1425
10/13/00 02:50:27
| Name: Shelly Frost |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: bottles |
Occupation: Court Clerk |
Favorite movie: It's a Wonderful Life |
| Favorite musician or group: Too many to Chose |
Age: 30 |
Comments:
Your page has truly inspired me!!!! I have also gone to markets, actions, or sales to find bottles. I have never really given thought about where some of them would be found. Thanks for the insight. Keep up the great work!!! What inspired you to start
collecting?
10/12/00 17:57:46
| Name: ari |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: varies |
Occupation: Professional Eccentric/Poet |
Favorite movie: Koyaanisqatsi |
| Favorite musician or group: YES |
Age: 38 |
Residence: AMERICA |
Comments:
Allo! Thanks for the privilege to see your privies.
10/12/00 16:03:44
| Name: Rebecca Hagar |
My URL: Visit Me |
My Email: Email Me |
| Area of interest in collecting: glass |
Occupation: support and distribution processor |
Age: 26 |
| Residence: Leavenworth KS |
Comments:
10/12/00 04:22:32
| Name: Upstart Pipsqueak |
My URL: Visit Me |
Area of interest in collecting: pop culture |
| Occupation: father |
Favorite movie: Wings Of Desire |
Favorite musician or group: Nick Cave |
| Age: 31 |
Comments:
Very fascinating. I read every word. Amazing that folks let you dig in their yards. Before reading this, I'da sent you packing.
10/12/00 03:13:13
| Name: Tim McE |
My URL: Visit Me |
Area of interest in collecting: general store collectibles |
| Occupation: carpenter |
Favorite musician or group: stompin Tom Connors |
Age: 44 |
| Residence: vilna alberta canada |
Comments:
very interesting site. something i haven't thought of doing until now, but will definately check out once our long canadian winter ends, and the ground thaws out.(approx middle of may 2001)
10/12/00 03:05:20
| Name: Sleepwalk in Oklahoma |
My URL: Visit Me |
| My Email: Email Me |
Area of interest in collecting: I collect dust mostly :) |
| Favorite movie: It's A Wonderful Life |
Favorite musician or group: Santo and Johnny and The Eagles |
Comments:
Greetings! I certainly enjoyed strolling through your website! Your site is about as uniquely unique as mine is. I passed it on to about a zillion people and they ALL loved it.
I'm continually amazed at how much alike people are no matter where in the world they are from. Its a small world after all. Just click on the picture to visit my homepage.... SLEEPWALK. I'll be looking for you! Sleepwalk :)