Old Town Albuquerque Find

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Old Town Albuquerque Find

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Under an crawlspace of an old bar
click on this link for The Art Crawl Caper

out

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Just Wow!...like a time capsule :shock:
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The Art Crawl Caper is one of my favorite stories from your website. Did you ever get under the adjoining buildings?
I'm constantly finding good cans... in my mailbox. *** My third year of waging Schlitzkrieg on the Flint Hills of Kansas ***
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I read that story years ago, loved it!
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I have one of those Ebling crowntainers in my collection. It is neat to know where the can comes from--a famous find.
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I have one of the Walter's also! Super clean can!!
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iggyks wrote:The Art Crawl Caper is one of my favorite stories from your website. Did you ever get under the adjoining buildings?
We went back to the building at a later date and found that the section of the building we were in was the only one with a crawlspace. Bummer!!
Looking for Illinois, Missouri and Texas steinie bottles. Looking for US stubby bottles produced between 1936 - 1941. Looking for ACL beer bottles. looking for St Louis area cans and certain Chicago area flat top cans. Holy Grail bottles are Old Albuquerque stubby from Albuquerque, Wagner Beer steinie(1937) from Granite City, Ill. and Goldcrest 51 steinie, Schepps Stubby, White Rose Stubby both from Dallas
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Darn it! But you did fine just with the one crawlspace :)
I'm constantly finding good cans... in my mailbox. *** My third year of waging Schlitzkrieg on the Flint Hills of Kansas ***
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Post by misson2 »

hello sir are you selling any of ebling crowntainers. thank you dan
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