TONY LEMMON
I got into bottle collecting when I was about 17 years old. I worked for an excavation company and my foreman dug up some old artifacts, local archeologists determined there was no significant historical findings to what we uncovered, and I was allowed to take home a milk jug. I've been hooked ever since. I still work in excavation and dig up bottles regularly. I've collected about 100 keepers in my nearly 20 years of collecting. I have everything from little lotion bottles to soda bottles.
I currently live in Brigham City. My favorite memory of collecting bottles would be when my profession as an excavation foreman took me to Salt Lake City near the oil refinery. We did construction for a townhouse complex and before they could build, we were hired to excavate 15 feet down to native ground and build it baba up with structural fill. This site was a dump site for rail cars coming into the oil refinery from 1920 to 1945. This site was completely riddled with intact bottles. Almost every scoop with the excavator would reveal multiple intact bottles and nearly broke my heart listening to bottles crunch that didn't survive the equipment. Overall, we pulled about 300 bottles from the site. One of my favorites was a perfume that started in the mid-1800s and made its way to Utah all the way from France
I don't collect by state but love our local Utah history and am happy to save this small part of it.
You can reach Tony by EMAIL
I currently live in Brigham City. My favorite memory of collecting bottles would be when my profession as an excavation foreman took me to Salt Lake City near the oil refinery. We did construction for a townhouse complex and before they could build, we were hired to excavate 15 feet down to native ground and build it baba up with structural fill. This site was a dump site for rail cars coming into the oil refinery from 1920 to 1945. This site was completely riddled with intact bottles. Almost every scoop with the excavator would reveal multiple intact bottles and nearly broke my heart listening to bottles crunch that didn't survive the equipment. Overall, we pulled about 300 bottles from the site. One of my favorites was a perfume that started in the mid-1800s and made its way to Utah all the way from France
I don't collect by state but love our local Utah history and am happy to save this small part of it.
You can reach Tony by EMAIL