Story within...short answer, my wife's grandfather...
...long answer...he owned a contracting and construction company here on the west side of San Francisco back in the 1950s - 1980s. From what I understand he and his other business associates used to buy holiday cases of booze...whiskey, scotch, etc and give it out as holiday gifts. He passed 7 years ago. He and my inlaws were / are notorious hoarders ("waste not want not") and have been VERY gradually clearing out his house. In his office there was a false panel in a closet that I popped off. There were bankers boxes labeled like "Tax returns 1961" etc. Behind all those bankers boxes were a floor safe and these cases of booze. Being in the industy, I took all the booze to work to look over with our resident whiskey expert and see if there were any gems in there.  Previous Message Previous Message
To see if our resident whiskey nerd thinks anything is good. He bought one in the first 10 minutes for 500 bucks.
I’m trying to see what I can get for the rest. There’s a few in there he thinks might be worth upwards of of 1000 bucks.
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 I brought in some dusty old whiskey bottles to work… - haighter July 16, 2025, 17:27:27
- Very cool.* - KingTalkyTiki July 17, 2025, 11:32:18
- thought these were lyrics to a country song* - lcubed July 17, 2025, 9:42:47
- Where did they come from?* - CoronaTheirAss July 17, 2025, 8:02:58
- Story within...short answer, my wife's grandfather... - haighter July 17, 2025, 11:10:37
- A distillery - ATL July 17, 2025, 9:29:09
- That Old Kentucky Tavern midcentury packaging is fire. * - doubledown July 16, 2025, 22:41:24
- The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean?: - JeffFrank July 16, 2025, 18:00:02
- This sounds fun - Sounder July 16, 2025, 17:50:23
- Is the value in the bottle itself? I’m assuming the flavor of the spirit would be altered by now?* - Dikta July 16, 2025, 17:39:31
- I know the Haig & Haig can be around $500 if right batch.* - ibdoc July 16, 2025, 17:34:43
- How much for the Power's? Is that the Italian proof?* - JacobRDaugherty July 16, 2025, 17:31:01
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