Over the holidays I heard of a local hardware store that was closing. It had been open since the 1920’s. I decided to go and glad I did. They had been cleaning out the building and finding many items that had been forgotten. Among some of the items were; horse drawn plow parts, horse shoes and a few things I ended up bringing home were bottle related. They had found a few old bottle cappers, used to apply the crown cap onto a soda or beer bottle. They were old, but still in the box, never used. I bought one of those.
I also found bottles. Through the years, people would stop by and buy a soft drink. The bottles were places all over the store in hard to find corners,etc. I found a few Coca-Cola bottles, Tab bottle and a Sprite bottle.
You just never know what you will find at places like this. They also had a lot of old advertising signs, etc. The next time you hear of an old store closing, stop by, you never know what you might find.
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