Mikey
4 posts
Apr 08, 2009
10:22 AM
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Digger-
You should ask around for the location of "..the bottle farm." It was somewhere in/around the west side. My father took me to see it several times in the 40s/very early 50s. There were absolutely thousands of bottles outside - on shelves, fence posts, hanging from trees, etc. Wherever it was, I'm sure that when the land was cleared, the bottles were simply plowed under. No one would have taken the time to load the tons of glass located there.
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Mikey, Gatlinburg, TN
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Steve K
54 posts
Apr 08, 2009
2:24 PM
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The bottle farm was in Farmersville, I think.... belonged to a character named "Zero Winter Swartzel" if I recall correctly. He tried to leave it to the city or county as a park when he died, but they didn't want it!
There's a nice little collection of mostly Dayton bottles down at Hauer Music just where the receptionist is at the back entrance.
O.P. Klee? I think he's the one that they called "Ollie", was a major league baseball player too, I think.
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daytondigger
3 posts
Apr 11, 2009
5:26 PM
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Thanks for the info. I've heard many people talk about the bottle farm. From my understanding the bottles would most likely be newer than what I collect. Pre-prohibition bottles and "go-withs" are what I'm after, with particular interest in pre-1900 stuff.
Ollie was a clerk at one time for John Klee & sons. O.P. Klee was in fact Oscar P. Klee. The Klee family were bottling sodas, ginger ales etc. in Dayton from 1866-1930's.
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kleewife
1 post
Oct 17, 2009
1:59 PM
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Hello! Just browsing around and found this site. John Klee was my husband's great grandfather, Ollie P Klee was his great uncle."Ollie" Klee played for Cincy Reds for one season, was an All American football at Ohio State. We have two "Klee" soda bottles, however, always looking for more for our grandchildren.If you want more information contact me at marthaklee@verizon.net. I am granddaughter of Joseph Spatz of the Spatz Bakery...Dayton bakers for over 50 years.
Nice to find you!
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Steve K
154 posts
Oct 18, 2009
9:25 AM
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Kleewife, one of the girls that I work with, used to work at a nursing home, and a John Klee volunteered there... think she said he was in his 80's or 90's, and this was probably 15-20 years ago? Think it was over around Huffman avenue.
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asf56
2 posts
Oct 19, 2009
1:31 PM
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A John Klee was my PE teacher and a coach at Belmont Grade School (Smithville Rd) from the mid-40s until I left in 1953. He also worked, or ran, the NCR Old River Pool in the summer. He lived in Patterson Park.
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weitzel99
5 posts
Apr 26, 2010
7:24 PM
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John Klee was a PE teacher at several schools but I also remember him from Belmont Elementary School. He was a volunteer at Heartland of Beavercreek and later became a resident. He died at the age of 103.
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RnRDoc57
3 posts
Jun 06, 2010
5:09 PM
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I'm glad I stumbled onto this thread. Maybe you can help me.
I'm looking at a project to restore an ad for Sachs-Prudens Ginger Ale. I need to find a picture of the oval label on the bottle. Anyone have one?
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SeeDavid
341 posts
Jun 19, 2010
9:10 PM
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I think Dave may have a map to the "outhouses of Dayton" ...a book or pamphlet. They say those are the best place to dig. ~ Cindi
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supersix
2 posts
Jun 20, 2010
7:16 PM
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The former bottle farm near Farmersville is now the location of the Farmersville Jackson Twp Swimming Pool at 14440 Farmersville-Gratis Road, near the intersection of Swartzel Road and Farmersville-Gratis Road.
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steve7777
3 posts
Apr 12, 2011
7:50 PM
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dayton digger...behind the orville wright school on wright avenue they cut out part of the hill to make a parking lot in the early sixties...the part of the hill they cut out before they put up the wall was absolutely filled with bottle and jugs! It was a junkyard in the 1920's or 30's. I know they just tore the school down! All my life I wondered what those bottle could be worth!
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steve7777
6 posts
Apr 13, 2011
1:27 PM
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delcodude If you remember the cement wall surrounding a parking lot behind the school....behind that wall was a wall of bottles and jugs...all different colors...thousands...carried home to my friends mom all sizes of whiskey jugs. Supposedly that land on the hill was never built on because the junkyard was there back in the twenties or thirties. Always thought there was a hidden treasure behind that wall and now it may be gone!
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delcodude
132 posts
Apr 13, 2011
3:27 PM
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Yes, the 'portables' used to sit in front of that wall. I wasn't aware of anything behind the wall except the hill.
At night we used to play 'flashlight tag' on the grounds and a lot of the time on top of the building. Fun times..
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