Finding 100 Year Old Levi's In An Abandoned Mine!

Blue jeans were created by Levi Strauss in 1873 for miners and originally known as 'waist overalls' or 'overalls.' These days, original Levi's are extremely desired by denim collectors and sometimes found in abandoned mines. I've been searching for Levi's up at Cerro Gordo for a long time, and finally found some here!

[nickcervantes]

One man's shitty pants is another man's treasure.

[jdoe]

I’m glad I’m not the only one that thought a man shit his pants 100 years ago and tried to hide them under some random trash so his coworkers wouldn’t joke him to death

[DazenAndromedus]

bro handled denim more carefully than dynamite 🤦🏿‍♂️

[thperman_]

I want to meet the man who left a silver mine with no pants on.

[tunanocrust]

Gonna be a long day after you find out that man took his pants off because he soiled them 💀

[nunyabiznez]

My great, great grandfather was a machinist in New Bedford. He retired in 1910. He passed away in 1926. I come from a long line of devout pack rats. One day Mom says she needs to sell the house and move into something smaller so she sends me to clean the attic. I find a dozen old trunks. One belonged to my great, great grandfather. It was full of tools and clothes. Mostly clothes. I knew it was his because the tools were machinist tools and I also am a machinist. I recognized them immediately and knew they were his from the tools. Most machinists etch their initials in all their tools. I have one complete Sunday suit, two complete coveralls and seven pairs of blue jeans and one jeans jacket. The blue jeans and jacket and coveralls were all made by Levi Strauss. The latest they could have been was from 1910 due to that being his retirement year but I showed them to an expert who informs me that the jacket was from circa 1896, the coveralls were from circa 1896-1899 and two of the jeans were definitely from 1873 and the remainder were from circa 1870's to 1880's. All but the jacket and one 1873 jeans had patches. The expert offered me $5000 cash for all of the above. I declined the offer as they are family heirlooms. As it happens my great great grandfather and I are the same size and yes, I have worn all of the above at one time or other. I keep them vacuum sealed in a climate controlled closet in my home along with other family heirlooms. I'm happy to report all his machinist tools are in working condition. It also appears that when I grow out my mustache I am basically his twin. I really freaked out one lady I was on a date with when I showed her "my" picture taken with "me" sitting in the driver's seat taken in 1915 behind the wheel of a Ford Model T with my then 15 year old grandmother posing in a rather naughty fashion almost like a gangster moll a full five years before the roaring '20's. As a joke I told her it I was a vampire and was born in 1845. Needless to say there was not a second date which was just as well because it just didn't occur to her that it might be possible that I'm not a real vampire.

[Oliveria]

Miner shits his pants lifting ore 150 years ago. Strips them off and walks out of the mine.
Dude from 2020: "OMG why are these antique pants abandoned! Worth a fortune! "

[byondvision]

Life lesson: when someone abandons some pants... there is certainly shit in them.

[austinhall]

My man tried to hold it as long as he can and lost the battle... just to be called out a century later

[cspray]

" Dynamite that could explode at any moment "
Continues to shake bag around like a grumpy meth addict with a baby.

[Acompliant]

"OK guys. We're closing the mine. Everyone take off your pants and head for the surface. "

[nimarus]

If you ever find dynamite, there is a MuniRem Reagent that can be sprayed that neutralizes nitroglycerin. No idea if it's available to the public, but it was used when around 350 pounds of old dynamite was found in a block building where it shouldn't have been stored. Nitroglycerin had leaked out everywhere and was an explosion waiting to happen. The Reagent neutralized it and made it safe to be removed.

[spray_cheese]

Yea the old Levi’s that sold for a ton were in damn near mint condition from the 1800s that’s why it’s worth a lot, not a rusty button and some denim fibers.

[Arikian]

"Ahhh yes, nitroglycerin, the famously incredibly unstable substance that could explode if you pick it up too hard, now let me just take this bag of nitroglycerin that has been sitting here for over a hundred years, without even undergoing any sort of stabilization process when it was made, and just throw it on the ground haphazardly without any regard for my life nor the lives of others"

Truly, the Darwin Award calls to your friend

[vcrbetamax]

This was more exciting than Indiana Jones 5.

[judgedredd]

Nothing like going on a mission 500 feet in the ground to retrieve your grandfather's pants

[InsatiableMonkey]

You are alive through sheer luck. You could've been red mist. I cannot believe the carelessness with which you handled that dynamite.

[Tyyyy]

My boy took thrifting for vintage to a whole other level

[brandonbullins]

A man in Kentucky found an intact skeleton dating back to the 1700s. He had buckskin pants and coat with hair on the inside of them. He had an arrow stuck between his ribs on the left side. He was found in a fetal position and still had a Bow but no arrows

[CoolHuey]

"the dynamite could explode at any second" proceeds to dump the dynamite onto the ground