The joy of remodeling: sometimes it’s like a box of chocolates! You never know what you get until you open it up!
Tim on 07 5, 2007
Home improvement is satisfying when you have completed a project. But during the process I have found it to be full of long hours, sore muscles, goof ups, some marital arguments, and rough on the pocketbook. In the end though, when it all comes together, full of surprises, it’s worth it! When Lynn and I decided to remove the chimney in our house (it was not placed in an ideal spot) look what I found EMBEDDED into the CMU concrete blocks!
Wow, Vintage 1972!
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Awesome! I remember Cragmont–and the pull-top cans! The general consensus at South Whidbey Elementary School was that Cragmont was what your parents bought if they were poor, or didn’t love you enough to buy Pepsi or Coke.
We drank a lot of Cragmont at my house…many a childhood argument with my mother revolved around whether Cragmont did or did not taste “just like the real thing.”
Do they still make it I wonder? Haven’t seen it in years but maybe I am not shopping at the right places.
That reminds me of the time we were rehabbing the shower in our lower level bathroom a few years back. The previous owners gave up on the project and walled it in with a piece of wallboard. When we tore out the wallboard, we found an old Compaq server. Yes, someone walled up a computer in the old shower.
By the time we sold the house last year, my husband hadn’t gotten around to finding out if there was anything on said computer, so I made him recycle it.
Cragmont must have been local because as a kid growing up in Kansas I never heard of this stuff and I’ve never seen it in the 19 years I’ve lived in Seattle.
Yes, Cragmont was defnitely local. I think you could only get it in WA, OR, ID and MT. Might have been a store brand of Associated Grocers (our grocery stores on Whidbey were AG stores…but I think AG is out of business now too?).
Curiosity got to me so I did a little internet research. Cragmont was a safeway brand, which has now been replaced by Select.
Not that this is a definitive source or anything…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54177448@N00/195094166/
(copy and paste URL, I am too lazy to code this morning).
Update: Thanks for the info Sandy! BTW, in fixing up our master bedroom, there was a pencil note scribbled on one of the 2×4’s, “House Built by Myron Thomas & Wife ‘ 72″. We are the second owners. I always think it’s pretty neat when a couple actually builds a home with their own hands. There’s an authenticity to it that makes it great.
So, I did the same and placed our name next to theirs for future remodelers.