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#33776 Sun May 04 2008 04:52 PM
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#33777 Sun May 04 2008 04:55 PM
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So far I found 3 6' SOCONY signs, 1 4' SOCONY sign, and 2 restroom signs.

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NICE score...is this in your own backyard or some "secret" location ?



#33779 Sun May 04 2008 05:06 PM
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talk about finding a pot of gold in your back yard!
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NO B*S* THERE, you really did !

#33781 Sun May 04 2008 05:09 PM
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WOW OH WOW! COOL FIND... YOU MUST TELL US MORE ABOUT THE FIND...LIKE THE LEAD INTO THE DIGGING PART!
THOSE LOOK LIKE THEY'VE BEEN BURIED A LONG TIME....CAN'T WAIT TO SEE HOW THEY CLEAN UP!

TALK ABOUT BOTW! LOL!

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#33782 Sun May 04 2008 05:11 PM
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Keep digging, might find the Poles or the whole station !

#33783 Sun May 04 2008 05:18 PM
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I will give you guys the details in a little while...I AM STILL DIGGEN

#33784 Sun May 04 2008 05:19 PM
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~Very Cool!~ Break out the Metal Detector!
There might be small restroom shields around there somewhere???
Keep us posted...


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#33785 Sun May 04 2008 05:27 PM
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wow, that is trippin' . unearthly.

#33786 Sun May 04 2008 05:54 PM
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Well I had to stop diggen, It got dark. Looks like there are 2 more 6' signs. That makes 5 6' signs so far. I was up by that shed spraying bee's before when I happen to look down and see a shiny blue color in the ground. I grabbed a shouvle and started to poke around. When I saw the two big signs going stright down, I desided to call my mom in Tenn. to see why my grand father might have barried them there. She said the only thing that was there was the old out house. My grand father didn't get plumming until the mid 40's, Then after that he used the old out house as a shed for the yard tools. I will do some more poking around tomarrow. I have to dig out that hole area where the signs go stright down. Who knows what I'll find in that hole. Has any one seen that type of rest rooms sign before. They are double sided and have a flange at the top and bottom of sign. In lower right corner it reads M.C.I. 4-51 ?

Jim

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He must have lined the pit with signs, to keep the walls from falling in.
Talk about someone digging in S..., & comes out smelling like a Rose !

#33788 Sun May 04 2008 07:04 PM
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Thats about the best find a collector can dream of, all that searching and the treasures have been right under your feet the whole time, I think I would rent a backhoe and dig up the whole property.
I am still smiling for you.

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#33789 Sun May 04 2008 07:47 PM
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How can you go to sleep now???? I would be calling in to work sick, setting up flood lights, renting [or stealing if they were closed] a back hoe and staying up all night long digging. By the time my wife got up in the morning we would never have to mow the yard again.

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Jim,
Great find! Ya gotta love your grandpa.


Got Socony???

Tom
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