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Originally Posted by photoLith
On a random note, I bet they found tons of antique bottles from Austins early days and other such things while digging that site out. Whenever I see new construction in old parts of towns I always check their dirt piles. I collect antique bottles from the 1800s and I can usually find a few good things while they do stuff like this.
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I'm sure there are all kinds of goodies in there. As I've mentioned you before, my dad collected bottles. We still have a lot of them. I have pictures of him and his friend from the mid 80s crouched down at the construction site of 301 Congress, which is an office tower on the block north of this hotel. Construction workers at that site also found the fossil of a saber-tooth tiger and a mastodon skeleton. Those fossils are on display in the building's lobby.