Tom, I bet most people don't know that you also collect antique horse buggies and restore cook stoves and can talk about just about anything old. Wish you would share some of that here on this channel!!
There is one video I found accidentally years ago where he talks about a buggy he is repairing. It was interesting. Agree, content on those topics would be great!
I have only recently rediscovered you. If i understand things correctly, you have control over this channel....unlike the previous one. You look so much happier! I am very glad for you!!!
In Britain would it be ketchup or brown sauce/A1? Both have Worcestershire. Heinz's version was minus alcohol (perfect for Prohibition states) and plus vinegar. "A relatively new company called Heinz introduced its famous formulation in 1876, which contained tomatoes, distilled vinegar, brown sugar, salt and various spices. They also pioneered the use of glass bottles, so customers could see what they were buying."
I love your slow easy delivery and patience…you seem to love all things old and respect them. I do too and that’s why you are gaining a steady following I’m sure. God bless!
Hi Tom , all those light bulbs reminded of A story about my grandmother who was born in the late 1800's . She told my mother to make sure she put A bulb right back in if she took one out because the electricity would all drain out . LOL ! Please keep on with your awesome videos !
Good one! There were actually warning signs on some hotel rooms about it having electric switches in them. They were really afraid of electricity when it first came out, like it was a health hazard or something.
Tom, the best to you and yours. Just found u a couple months ago, and by your voice, realized, had seen u before. Been working in kitchen, listening , and look when hear u get excited. As a kid, growing up in southern W.V., back in the sixties, finding a new dump site, made the day!!!
Just loving how much happier you sound in these new videos. I don’t know if it’s because you took a break from digging, or because of a change in circumstance, or some combination, but it’s wonderful to hear you sounding so much more lighthearted and enjoying yourself. As much as I enjoyed your other videos, your “new attitude” makes these even more fun!
Hi Tom. Your one of my favorite TH-cam. I gotta tell you that I really appreciate the knowledge you pass on, not to mention the fabulous finds. You are always respectful and professional, which is also much appreciated. That being said, do you ever think about posting an auction with your finds? I for one, would be VERY interested. Thanks again Tom, for all you do.😊
I have some pieces that I would sell, I just haven’t had much free time. I have a couple projects coming to a close, though so I may be able to get an online store going.
The cooking must’ve been bad if they needed all that catsup! 😂 lots of bottles found. I’m glad you continued with your channel, I like to watch you did in your stinky old holes! 😂
They had a hard time keeping goods from going rancid back then.. so they masked everything with sauces ketchup mustard.. whatever they could do to cover the taste.. 😊
Every time you say you noticed a sunken area, I get both excited and flummoxed-I don’t know if I could ever train myself to be so observant! Thanks for another fascinating dig
Hi Tom, Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge! Since starting this channel you seem so much happier/lighter. The iron piece you said you weren’t sure about…just before the 30 min mark looks like a piece from a small fire grate. I grew up with a Franklin stove as our source of heat and the piece reminded me of one of the foot pieces. Just a guess. Being an immediate thought….love watching the digs and the history 🎉😊 Lois
Great digs! Got to thinking some of those bottles have been buried as long as some peoples lifetimes, ie: the bottles were buried, a person was born, the same person died, then you came along and dug it up. Gives you a different perspective on how long some of that stuff has not seen the light of day. Keep on digging!
Hi from Australia 🇦🇺. Thanks Tom love your channel and you’re always good value. Whatever you dig up, it’s interesting. You show the love to everything. Do you do your own laundry 😂 and if it’s extra muddy do you just throw it out .. especially the gloves? Curious. PS we call ketchup.. Sauce. That’s tomato sauce. We have HP brown sauce by appointment to Her Majesty the Queen.
Excellent dig as always, just miss seeing the old advertising for the various companies you uncover, but obviously that adds time to the editing, and you would rather be digging up more history. Don't blame you, I'd be digging every day, love the channel, keep that trowel going.
At 10:00-10:02 there was a really nice spoon loosened up but just got scraped away, hope you saw it with the loose dirt. Love to see all that is found not just the glass jars?
I have a Burnetts Cocanain hair product bottle is it the same maker as the Burnetts bottle you found?I was watching on u-tube the other day there is an incandescent light bulb like the ones you find that has been working for 105 years!Its never been touched or cleaned,pretty cool!I also found 30 years ago an embossed dark green Palmers perfume bottle with a metal crown top!Great dig guys!
A whole example of the Dakotas oldest known bottle: a cobalt blue soda from Fred Schnaubers bottling works of Yankton, Dakota Territory (1869). I’ve found many pieces of them over the years
Okay they showed the Snow White trailer and they totally gave into the fans!🤣🤣🤣 She was like I don't need no man, and they showed her with a man holding hands, damn made me bust out laughing...
Tom, so what lets you know how big to make the hole? Seems like you could really dig big holes if you wanted to. I would love to just dig and dig. Always loved the dirt. Awesome bottles today. ❤❤❤
The flavoring extracts were possibly used in concocting cocktails instead of all being for baking purposes. Ketchup to help mask foods, extracts to mask alcohol.😮
Bottle hunters don't seem impressed when finding ketchup bottles, but they're my favorite!---Interesting trivia about the Watkins bottle line! I wonder when that feature stopped. My family used to buy Watkins, Jewel T, Fuller Brush products, often from door-to-door salesmen.---Train tracks across the street...travelers drinking the booze during their stop over? And maybe a bakery in town that provided baked goods for why there wasn't more in the way of baking evidence?---The sound quality today was intense, felt like I was right there in the hole next to you!---How many bottles came home with you! And how many was the property owner interested in keeping!---And as always, the birdsong in the background, since I can't be there to hear it for myself.
Always a pleasure to watch you dig, but I was wondering when you were gonna say something about the silverware that seem to be a lot of it in there that you missed
We had a few pieces that were fairly crusty. I found a couple silver plated spoons the other day in an 1880s pit in Grand Forks. I’ll be cleaning them up and posting them on my FB. They look fairly ornate
Tom, what’s the best way to send you info about a possible dig site? My great-great-grandmother had a restaurant in Hilger, Montana, in Fergus County. The building block also had a hotel, drug store, and barbershop according to the 1916 Sanborn map. It was built in September/October 1911 and burned down on June 6, 1931. I have the names of the current property owners of the plot and those adjoining it, and a photo of the building from 1915.
Hello Tom, I have a few questions, about your digging, can you tell me about the pro rods? I am just wondering if I may be able to find anything in my backyard, where can I get these pro rods?
Hi Tom, do you think their might be an old menu some where in the towns history records or maybe someone who collects town history? It would be great to see pictures or other ephemera of the places you dig.
I am wondering with all those ketchup bottles, did they have mustard back then ?? Always enjoy watching too see what you find and when it was made and how it was. The history so interesting.
@@thecatsmeowfromny Salt & pepper were the only spices in any northern kitchen of my youth. Every restaurant has ketchup bottles on the tables! When we first moved to Albuquerque for Dad to get his Master's, we learned about Mexican food by first eating canned refried beans & canned tamales. Then we lived next door to a Hispanic couple who introduced us to the real things, and I just kept trying new foods over the years. When we made our version of enchiladas at a family gathering at the Farmstead in ND, my paternal Grandmother was willing, but my Grandpa wouldn't eat anything spicier than black pepper!
Some are kept, sold, given to the property owner and donated to museums. If no one is interested we throw them back. I’m hoping to add more details in the vids this winter once the ground freezes. Things have been a bit chaotic lately.
Usually the use of ketchup back then was to make older or bad meat more palatable, so they either regularly served poor quality meat or just had a bad cook.
I would kind of expect the hotel had an electric light plant. I don’t think alternating current power plants were until 1918. So this would be DC power
Tom, I bet most people don't know that you also collect antique horse buggies and restore cook stoves and can talk about just about anything old. Wish you would share some of that here on this channel!!
There is one video I found accidentally years ago where he talks about a buggy he is repairing. It was interesting. Agree, content on those topics would be great!
I have only recently rediscovered you. If i understand things correctly, you have control over this channel....unlike the previous one. You look so much happier! I am very glad for you!!!
Even after 40 some bottles you still hold each Ketchup up with reverence!🙃 I never get tired of seeing you bring up the next thing!
In Britain would it be ketchup or brown sauce/A1? Both have Worcestershire. Heinz's version was minus alcohol (perfect for Prohibition states) and plus vinegar. "A relatively new company called Heinz introduced its famous formulation in 1876, which contained tomatoes, distilled vinegar, brown sugar, salt and various spices. They also pioneered the use of glass bottles, so customers could see what they were buying."
I love your slow easy delivery and patience…you seem to love all things old and respect them. I do too and that’s why you are gaining a steady following I’m sure. God bless!
1. We'll get this thing opened up
2. This pit is loaded
3. This is the Holy Grail
4. This pit is done!
Ideas for T Shirts!
We'll get this filled in
Hi Tom , all those light bulbs reminded of A story about my grandmother who was born in the late 1800's . She told my mother to make sure she put A bulb right back in if she took one out because the electricity would all drain out . LOL ! Please keep on with your awesome videos !
Good one! There were actually warning signs on some hotel rooms about it having electric switches in them. They were really afraid of electricity when it first came out, like it was a health hazard or something.
Hi Tom, so nice to see your smiling face. Love hearing you get excited about your finds. ❤
Always happy to watch one of your videos Tom - unbelievable number of ketchup bottles, I couldn’t help chuckling as more and more kept coming out!
May have been a record number haha
Tom it's good to see your own channel growing. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Tom, the best to you and yours. Just found u a couple months ago, and by your voice, realized, had seen u before. Been working in kitchen, listening , and look when hear u get excited. As a kid, growing up in southern W.V., back in the sixties, finding a new dump site, made the day!!!
Thanks for watching!
Whoever had the local ketchup account was making bank! As always, a great dig and video, Tom.
Just loving how much happier you sound in these new videos. I don’t know if it’s because you took a break from digging, or because of a change in circumstance, or some combination, but it’s wonderful to hear you sounding so much more lighthearted and enjoying yourself. As much as I enjoyed your other videos, your “new attitude” makes these even more fun!
Awesome finds...so enjoy your videos...🥰🥰
That was a loaded pit! Every dig is different! Another fantastic vid, Tom! Thanks for taking us on the dig with you!
Thanks for watching!
Always a great day when Tom has a new video up! Especially so when they are the hour long + videos! 😊🎉
Thanks for watching!
@@TomAskjem.it’s our pleasure, believe me!
Hi Tom. Your one of my favorite TH-cam. I gotta tell you that I really appreciate the knowledge you pass on, not to mention the fabulous finds. You are always respectful and professional, which is also much appreciated. That being said, do you ever think about posting an auction with your finds? I for one, would be VERY interested. Thanks again Tom, for all you do.😊
I have some pieces that I would sell, I just haven’t had much free time. I have a couple projects coming to a close, though so I may be able to get an online store going.
The cooking must’ve been bad if they needed all that catsup! 😂 lots of bottles found. I’m glad you continued with your channel, I like to watch you did in your stinky old holes! 😂
They had a hard time keeping goods from going rancid back then.. so they masked everything with sauces ketchup mustard.. whatever they could do to cover the taste.. 😊
I'm just amazed that after digging 2000 pits over 2 decades, you still find items you've never seen before.
It never ceases to amaze me that there’s still new things to learn about this.
Every time you say you noticed a sunken area, I get both excited and flummoxed-I don’t know if I could ever train myself to be so observant! Thanks for another fascinating dig
Tom! Your bottle knowledge astounds me!
Hi Tom, Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge! Since starting this channel you seem so much happier/lighter. The iron piece you said you weren’t sure about…just before the 30 min mark looks like a piece from a small fire grate. I grew up with a Franklin stove as our source of heat and the piece reminded me of one of the foot pieces. Just a guess. Being an immediate thought….love watching the digs and the history 🎉😊 Lois
Thanks!
Great digs! Got to thinking some of those bottles have been buried as long as some peoples lifetimes, ie: the bottles were buried, a person was born, the same person died, then you came along and dug it up. Gives you a different perspective on how long some of that stuff has not seen the light of day. Keep on digging!
Thank you for sharing this great educational experience 👍🎉
If you could show photos of the hotels or floor plans, it would bring it to life. Thanks!
Sir Digsalot... we have missed you...we were getting worried... your back and we are happy... thanks for the vids...2 more to go...most excellent...
Thanks for watching!
I've never been so entertained by ketchup bottles before waiting for the final tally. ❤
Great dig! The iron piece could be a buggy step maybe.nice load of sodas.🤙🏻
Thanks for another fascinating video!
Hi from Australia 🇦🇺. Thanks Tom love your channel and you’re always good value. Whatever you dig up, it’s interesting. You show the love to everything. Do you do your own laundry 😂 and if it’s extra muddy do you just throw it out .. especially the gloves? Curious. PS we call ketchup.. Sauce. That’s tomato sauce. We have HP brown sauce by appointment to Her Majesty the Queen.
Love the longer videos, but then we're birds of a feather so I may be biased! 😆 👍
Excellent dig as always, just miss seeing the old advertising for the various companies you uncover, but obviously that adds time to the editing, and you would rather be digging up more history. Don't blame you, I'd be digging every day, love the channel, keep that trowel going.
Thanks for watching! I plan to include the ads in future vids, likely once the digging season winds down. It definitely adds a lot of time editing.
Fried ketchup, boiled ketchup, ketchup kabobs, ketchup scampi, ketchup sandwiches, ketchup salad….
@@Mrhalligan39 ketchup on eggs, deer, prairie chicken, squirrel, rabbit, buffalo more likely
@@maureenfitzgerald1895 Ketchup on ketchup?
Ha Tom, I've doing some catsup-up on your videos, and right now I've got catsup coming out my eyeballs.
Hahahaha
Thank you for video .. Was happy to see you dry in these! God save our Republic!
Amazing hall. I miss all the glass we used to have.
Interesting light bulbs this time. Love the little blue bottle.
It is good to see you so happy! You deserve it.
At 10:00-10:02 there was a really nice spoon loosened up but just got scraped away, hope you saw it with the loose dirt. Love to see all that is found not just the glass jars?
I have a Burnetts Cocanain hair product bottle is it the same maker as the Burnetts bottle you found?I was watching on u-tube the other day there is an incandescent light bulb like the ones you find that has been working for 105 years!Its never been touched or cleaned,pretty cool!I also found 30 years ago an embossed dark green Palmers perfume bottle with a metal crown top!Great dig guys!
Another great dig! Thanks for sharing!
I've never heard of a Schram canning jar. I like the cobalt blue cosmetic jar. Nice dig!
A boot scraper? Nice dry dig this time😂🤩with a side of katchup🍅
Neat to see what you found!
In all your years of digging what is one item you have not found but would like to dig up?
Good question!
A whole example of the Dakotas oldest known bottle: a cobalt blue soda from Fred Schnaubers bottling works of Yankton, Dakota Territory (1869). I’ve found many pieces of them over the years
I really enjoy your videos and thanks to you, I am quite adept at telling which ones are ketchup bottles! 🙂
Okay they showed the Snow White trailer and they totally gave into the fans!🤣🤣🤣 She was like I don't need no man, and they showed her with a man holding hands, damn made me bust out laughing...
That small blue bottle, I believe is Larkin Soap from Buffalo NY. I have the same bottle with a paper label on it.😊
Omg love all the sodas.....nice finds
I always love these types of videos because it really is a time capsule back to the history Of that area❤
Dig quicker Tom ! More Vids 👍💂💂👀 UK 👍
Tom, so what lets you know how big to make the hole? Seems like you could really dig big holes if you wanted to. I would love to just dig and dig. Always loved the dirt. Awesome bottles today. ❤❤❤
Welcome back. Prefer this than Paris! ! 😊 UK.
The flavoring extracts were possibly used in concocting cocktails instead of all being for baking purposes. Ketchup to help mask foods, extracts to mask alcohol.😮
This is a good drinking game video, every time you say ketchup we take a drink!!! That has to be the most you have ever dug on one video!!
Love your videos Tom
Bottle hunters don't seem impressed when finding ketchup bottles, but they're my favorite!---Interesting trivia about the Watkins bottle line! I wonder when that feature stopped. My family used to buy Watkins, Jewel T, Fuller Brush products, often from door-to-door salesmen.---Train tracks across the street...travelers drinking the booze during their stop over? And maybe a bakery in town that provided baked goods for why there wasn't more in the way of baking evidence?---The sound quality today was intense, felt like I was right there in the hole next to you!---How many bottles came home with you! And how many was the property owner interested in keeping!---And as always, the birdsong in the background, since I can't be there to hear it for myself.
We were offered to keep them all but decided on just the sodas
@@TomAskjem. I'm surprised you didn't take a few of the Grand Forks bottles. You must already have a glut of those!
Sorry Tom, but I had to laugh at all the ketchup bottles. I liked all the light bulbs. Always a good unit. Thanks for all the work you do. ❤
26 minute ish is either a boot scraper for a doorway or maybe a small decorative part for a fireplace front.
@@oilerfreak I’d bet on boot scraper
It appears to be the front piece of the fireplace log basket.
Another awesome dig
Great video Tom. 👍
From the soda pit to the ketchup pit. Still watching hope you find more as you dig down
Really nice bottles. The blue bottle was pretty. Nice sodas. ❤❤
That little white squat container was a deodorant bottle and it was called “Fresh”. My momma used to use this type deodorant.
Man you dig some cool bottles.. 😊
Always a pleasure to watch you dig, but I was wondering when you were gonna say something about the silverware that seem to be a lot of it in there that you missed
We had a few pieces that were fairly crusty. I found a couple silver plated spoons the other day in an 1880s pit in Grand Forks. I’ll be cleaning them up and posting them on my FB. They look fairly ornate
Tom, what’s the best way to send you info about a possible dig site? My great-great-grandmother had a restaurant in Hilger, Montana, in Fergus County. The building block also had a hotel, drug store, and barbershop according to the 1916 Sanborn map. It was built in September/October 1911 and burned down on June 6, 1931. I have the names of the current property owners of the plot and those adjoining it, and a photo of the building from 1915.
Feel free to send info to my email Thomas.Askjem@gmail.com
Thanks!
a piece of a fireplace grid that held your firewood into place
That's what I thought as well.
Me too!
Hello Tom, I have a few questions, about your digging, can you tell me about the pro rods? I am just wondering if I may be able to find anything in my backyard, where can I get these pro rods?
You should make glasses out of the broken bottles, like Adventure of Archeology does. They are cool.
Must be some shitty tasting food at that place if they went through that much ketchup
Hi Tom, do you think their might be an old menu some where in the towns history records or maybe someone who collects town history? It would be great to see pictures or other ephemera of the places you dig.
Great program Tom, never saw so many ketchup bottles, is it a record for a pit? Take care and stay safe. 👍👍👍
Either this one or a restaurant pit in Kansas
I'm happy for you finding those sodas it's been a while. I was thinking you may have said "IT'S ABOUT TIME", it is cool tho
I am wondering with all those ketchup bottles, did they have mustard back then ?? Always enjoy watching too see what you find and when it was made and how it was. The history so interesting.
Tom? Rock on bro!
I think that iron bit is part of a step to a truck, car or wagon.
Classic comment.. A bulb in the shape of a bulb... love it 🤣
A classic bulb shaped bulb haha
I love the little added things like the moonshiners smashing the 13s! What IS the standing record for ketchups/sodas/liquor in a single pit?
You know it would be really cool. Have somebody restore those light bulbs back to working order
Using larger filaments. I read the main reason light bulbs don’t last is because the filaments are too thin.
I really like your videos but it just amazing you don't break more bottles shoveling around with that trowel
The food must have been awful to need this much ketchup!!!!
I'm originally from North Dakota & can tell you that we use ketchup a lot! Those bottles are my favorites (but I do NOT put ketchup on my eggs!)
Food might have been blander back then, and they needed the ketchup for taste. Spices and seasoning were also used a lot.
@@thecatsmeowfromny Salt & pepper were the only spices in any northern kitchen of my youth. Every restaurant has ketchup bottles on the tables! When we first moved to Albuquerque for Dad to get his Master's, we learned about Mexican food by first eating canned refried beans & canned tamales. Then we lived next door to a Hispanic couple who introduced us to the real things, and I just kept trying new foods over the years. When we made our version of enchiladas at a family gathering at the Farmstead in ND, my paternal Grandmother was willing, but my Grandpa wouldn't eat anything spicier than black pepper!
I’m surprised that the tips on most of the lightbulbs are still in tact after all these years in the pits❤
Never seen an addiction to ketchup quite this serious.
What do you do with the bottles?
The long metal piece looks like an andiron out of a fireplace. Usually a pair to hold wood logs.
I need to look up old hotel restaurant menus to see what they were dumping all that ketchup on.
I’m thinking the piece of metal you dug in the first pit might be part of a fireplace grate.
Thanks!
Doubt we’ll be digging up the plastic bottles of today in 100 years with as much enthusiasm.
You should tell us what you do with all the finds and photos of the establishment that was there in the day.
Some are kept, sold, given to the property owner and donated to museums. If no one is interested we throw them back. I’m hoping to add more details in the vids this winter once the ground freezes. Things have been a bit chaotic lately.
The odd unknown iron object looks to me like what sets in front of the fireplace
Maybe they wouldn’t go through so many ketchup bottles if they bought bigger ones. 😂 Nice dig, as always.
I can just picture it.... A guy walks into the joint and says, I'd like a bottle of ketchup with a soda chaser! Lol😂
Usually the use of ketchup back then was to make older or bad meat more palatable, so they either regularly served poor quality meat or just had a bad cook.
I would love to go back in time and taste that ketchup.
I wonder if they had a
lot of tramps around making hobo soup. Ketchup & hot water
They must have made great fries at that restaurant, sheesh that's a lot of ketchup.
With all the ketchup bottles, makes me wonder how good the food was at the restaurant? 😂
I would kind of expect the hotel had an electric light plant. I don’t think alternating current power plants were until 1918. So this would be DC power
Tom, you would have enjoyed my cousin Lawrence Balzer from Hooker, Ok. He restored old farm equipment and cars.
I wonder if people that early in the 1900s used beer flats to carry their beer home .
#replay