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Went back to the site of the sunken saloon and found two more old bottles in the mud nearby.
This is a Henry Haffen beer bottle. The Haffen family consisted of a father and four brothers who would create a very big brewery on 152nd street.
In situ:
Fresh from the mud.
Second bottle was a Wendling & Berger from New Rochelle:
I also found this rusty old steam boiler, maybe it's from a sunken steam ship that beached in the area back in the day, or some piece of machinery associated with the saloon, maybe a steam engine was used here for something.
Here's a picture of Henry Haffen, he's in the white shirt with the suspenders in the middle. He served the Union in the Civil War.
I couldn't find any advertisements from Henry's short lived brewery but here is one put out by his two brothers, note the pre-dreadnought battleship shining a spotlight on a pair of sirens... they're luring the sailors with some Haffen beer, maybe to their doom.
This is a Henry Haffen beer bottle. The Haffen family consisted of a father and four brothers who would create a very big brewery on 152nd street.
In situ:
Fresh from the mud.
Second bottle was a Wendling & Berger from New Rochelle:
I also found this rusty old steam boiler, maybe it's from a sunken steam ship that beached in the area back in the day, or some piece of machinery associated with the saloon, maybe a steam engine was used here for something.
Here's a picture of Henry Haffen, he's in the white shirt with the suspenders in the middle. He served the Union in the Civil War.
I couldn't find any advertisements from Henry's short lived brewery but here is one put out by his two brothers, note the pre-dreadnought battleship shining a spotlight on a pair of sirens... they're luring the sailors with some Haffen beer, maybe to their doom.
