Time Capsule?

[jeff_t]

Destruction began today in the hour and a half I had free this afternoon. This is where the new BK will sit. And the goodies behind the two layers of paneling and the drywall.

 

[brianbeech]

That's great! I did some reno to my house - built in the mid 30's and I found a glass and a beer bottle. Not nearly as many as you, but it is always interesting to see what you find.

 

[tickbitty]

Cool! Gotcha some 7-Up, coca cola, PBR and what else? I'm guessing vintage early '70s? Or is it earlier?

 

[BrotherBart]

Looks like Pepsi, Budweiser and Nehi are in attendance.

 

[jeff_t]

Close, it's Nesbitt's. My dad built the house in '73, and PBR was pretty popular with the fellas, so I'm sure there's more.

 

[Uncle]

I have always been fascinared by time capsules. When I was a kid my town in New Jersey made a time capsule in 1976 to be opened 100 years later. IIRC we made a "Happy 300TH Birthday America" card and it is supposed to be opened on July 4th 2076.

I also discoved a time capsule while doing renovation work. It contained a newspaper from the 50's and some picture's but nothing written by the people who made it.

Cool thread

 

[My Oslo heats my home]

Thats funny, my crew and I still do that today...

 

[tickbitty]

Close, it's Nesbitt's. My dad built the house in '73, and PBR was pretty popular with the fellas, so I'm sure there's more.

Dang, I'm pretty good!
Interesting about the Nesbitt's. I googled it and those bottles seem to go for $10 a pop on ebay and etc!

Cracks me up cause PBR has both the long necks, squatty bottles, and cans represented!
I love time capsules!

 

[tickbitty]

I have always been fascinared by time capsules. When I was a kid my town in New Jersey made a time capsule in 1976 to be opened 100 years later. IIRC we made a "Happy 300TH Birthday America" card and it is supposed to be opened on July 4th 2076.

I also discoved a time capsule while doing renovation work. It contained a newspaper from the 50's and some picture's but nothing written by the people who made it.

Cool thread

Uncle, what did you do with the stuff you found from the '50s? My sister found the name of her mid-19th c. housebuilder written inside the door frame when they fixed something. I looked the guy up and he had moved from the area and founded a town in another state, they had his picture and whole bio online!

 

[jeff_t]

Close, it's Nesbitt's. My dad built the house in '73, and PBR was pretty popular with the fellas, so I'm sure there's more.

Dang, I'm pretty good!
Interesting about the Nesbitt's. I googled it and those bottles seem to go for $10 a pop on ebay and etc!

Cracks me up cause PBR has both the long necks, squatty bottles, and cans represented!
I love time capsules!

Well, you're almost good. It's Pepsi, not Coke . The 7up is a 10 oz bottle, as are the Nesbitt's, and the Pepsi is a 12. The PBR can had the pull tab, like the guy pulled off and put in the can, then choked on it, in an episode of Emergency. Roy and Johnny saved him though ;-).

 

[nate379]

You know to be honest I'd be pretty pissed if I found garbage stuffed in teh walls. One thing if I choose to do it, but if a contractor is doing work, the garbage goes in teh trash can.

Thats funny, my crew and I still do that today...

 

[Uncle]

Uncle, what did you do with the stuff you found from the '50s? My sister found the name of her mid-19th c. housebuilder written inside the door frame when they fixed something. I looked the guy up and he had moved from the area and founded a town in another state, they had his picture and whole bio online![/quote]

That is cool. I never found out who the people in the photo's were. Or even where they were taken. Some really cool old car's in the backround.

I still have the newspaper it was a copy of the New York Daily News. It is in a box in my sisters attic. I remember reading the sports section, back then the NBA had only eight teams and the paper was a little smaller than todays type version.

 

[mhrischuk]

This was on the plaster ceiling of the house I grew up in. The house was a lot older and was a one room log cabin before it was expanded.

(broken image removed)

 

[Wade A.]

And then there are time capsules of the other kind: When I tore out my gas insert, and stripped the granite tile trim back to the studs, I found a full roll of PAPER TOWELS standing up on top of the unit. That was and endorsement of the insulative properties designed in by the manufacturer, but still. I was pretty p.o.'d to find it. OTOH, my wife had a lot of anxiety of how "safe" a woodstove would be. When I made this discovery, and she saw that my initiative was actually going to make the house comparatively safer, I had no further issues with her over it. Credibility is a wonderful thing.

 

[My Oslo heats my home]

You know to be honest I'd be pretty pissed if I found garbage stuffed in teh walls. One thing if I choose to do it, but if a contractor is doing work, the garbage goes in teh trash can.

Thats funny, my crew and I still do that today...

NATE, In relationship to the time capsule, we do it for the same reason. We don't just drop our trash in the walls!

I have been amazed what has been found in the walls of homes needing work over the years. A few years ago
one of my guys found fuel ration cards from the world warII era and just last year a beat up antique stove lighter.

 

[Ken S]

One of my guys pulled up an old linoleum floor in a rooming house I own and found a newspaper from 1927

 

[BrowningBAR]

One of my guys pulled up an old linoleum floor in a rooming house I own and found a newspaper from 1927

Yes, I pull old newspaper out of my walls during renovations. It neat, but I'd prefer to find insulation....

 

[begreen]

Better than rat and mice nests though.

 

[Mrs. Krabappel]

The PBR can had the pull tab, like the guy pulled off and put in the can, then choked on it, in an episode of Emergency. Roy and Johnny saved him though ;-).

I saw that!!

When I cleaned out my shed this summer I found some interesting items, and chicken farm records from the 20's.

I also found this cast iron/ceramic gas heater I thought was being stored in the shed until I realized it was hooked up to a gas line.

 

[jeff_t]

Ripped off the face of the fireplace today and found this board tucked in one of the cinder blocks. I'm sure I was the three year old carpenter responsible for the work ;-)

 

[glenlloyd]

Years ago when I was replacing ceiling joists in my house and putting up drywall I found two very old whiskey bottles in a corner of the ceiling in the breakfast room where clearly it was the last place they sheeted over on the roof. There were these two bottles and bits of shiplap board and beaded ceiling all laying in a pile. I always figured they tossed them in as they were closing it up but who knows.

Later I talked to a descendant of the guys that built the house and he informed me that the group that built it were quite friendly with the whiskey.

Those two bottles are still on my yet to be finished mantle. The labels are in pretty good shape for having been around since 1917.

steve

 

[michaelreinard]

Great find. When I pulled the paneling off my hearth wall a few months ago I found this beauty. The house was built in 77-78, around the time I was born. I had always assumed that pull tabs had disappeared well before the unfortunate development of light beer. I had no idea they were contemporaneous.

 

[tickbitty]

I love this thread and hope the mods do not ever relegate it to the Ash can!
Since the hearth is the "heart of the home" I feel like the time capsules you guys are talking about are kinda special offerings! And I love it that you saved the old Whiskey bottles!
Anyone find a cache of shoes? Pins? Witch bottles? Mummified cats?
http://wayhistsoc.home.comcast.net/~wayhistsoc/whs/Shoes_in_the_Wall/shoes_in_the_wall.htm
http://www.whitedragon.org.uk/articles/folk.htm

 

[fishingpol]

I helped my neighbor a few years back renovating his 1890's Queen Ann Victorian. In the wall cavities were newspapers tacked up to the sheathing between the studs. There were so many great articles in the papers back then. He found a childs vest hanging on a nail in the wall cavity in his dining room. Lastly, we pulled up the white pine floor in the dining room, and found a medallion about 3 ft in diameter of all handcut wood. It looked almost like a compass. The woods were oak, cherry, walnut, pine and maple. It was unfortunately water damaged and dry rotted in places. It truly was someones labor of love that I'm sure was admired by friends and family.