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Bottle diggers are always on the lookout for old buildings that are being demolished. So when a warehouse recently came down last fall on the False Creek flats, they quickly descended onto the site.
It turned out to be a honey hole. Bottle digger Christian Laub estimates he and about seven cohorts have discovered thousands of bottles hidden in the ground, mostly dating from 1905 to 1915.
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What makes the site so special? It was once on the shoreline of the eastern end of False Creek, which used to run to Clark Drive. It was filled in to create railway land between 1913 and 1916.