Past Expiration

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The antique mall in Alexandria has several rows of glass cases with locked-up items. A lot of it is jewelry or baseball cards, glass tchotchkes of significance, pins and medals, and a variety of other higher-priced fare. Honestly, it’s the least interesting aisle in the building to me because I prefer the challenge of visually sorting through unobscured junk like a sieve scooping up a pile of river dirt looking for a nugget of precious metal. That’s the fun of going to antique malls; it’s an exercise that sometimes turns up something neat. The cases are all fruit, no labor.

These vintage bottles were locked up. The Coke bottle didn’t have a tag that I could see, but after a quick online search, it looks like it may be from the ‘70s. Coke is so old, they were doing throwback promos 50 years ago.

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