Parlor City Pickers & Diggers

Parlor City Pickers & Diggers We are experienced diggers and pickers based out of Upstate NY. We metal detect & dig privys/dumps

One of our favorite things to do is look for outhouses in photographs. It definitely makes the process easier for findin...
01/05/2026

One of our favorite things to do is look for outhouses in photographs. It definitely makes the process easier for finding them and gaining permission.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year. Looking forward to the spring bottle shows like Baltimore an...
01/03/2026

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year. Looking forward to the spring bottle shows like Baltimore and Rochester. Also, can't wait to get back to digging. We got exclusive permission to a town dump and also a couple older houses to look for privys. We also plan to start posting videos again on our YouTube page so keep an eye out!

Picture of a winter scene in Susquehanna, PA. Peep the outhouses top right corner.

Photo from 1860s overlooking a civil war battle in Tennessee. Looks to be a double seater.
12/17/2025

Photo from 1860s overlooking a civil war battle in Tennessee. Looks to be a double seater.

Today we did a presentation on privy digging at the kilmer mansion in binghamton. All money raised goes into restoring t...
09/26/2025

Today we did a presentation on privy digging at the kilmer mansion in binghamton. All money raised goes into restoring the mansion and preserving it for the future. We had a good turnout and look forward to doing another.

Shayne and Ryan dug a privy earlier in the back yard of a house built in 1838! Unfortunately this pit wasn't anywhere ne...
08/29/2025

Shayne and Ryan dug a privy earlier in the back yard of a house built in 1838! Unfortunately this pit wasn't anywhere near that old. Most of the finds we yielded were c1890s-1910s era and a lot of it was broken. Better luck next time.. hopefully 🍾

Some of the pontils from today's dig.
07/27/2025

Some of the pontils from today's dig.

We are in it.
07/27/2025

We are in it.

We went and did some metal detecting yesterday and Shayne got his 2nd ever silver half dollar! Ryan got a merc dime and ...
05/19/2025

We went and did some metal detecting yesterday and Shayne got his 2nd ever silver half dollar! Ryan got a merc dime and some cool local coupon tokens

Rochester show. Our table is set up.
04/27/2025

Rochester show. Our table is set up.

Come see us at the show. We will have a table set up with bottles for sale.
04/24/2025

Come see us at the show. We will have a table set up with bottles for sale.

Never digging a wet pit again......Got to dig our first pit in over a year yesterday. First door knocked and got permiss...
04/14/2025

Never digging a wet pit again......Got to dig our first pit in over a year yesterday. First door knocked and got permission. Found the pit within 2 mins. Based off sanborn maps we had an idea where it was. Couldn't tell if the pit was to the hotel on main street or to the house we knocked. It was a quite large wood liner 10ft long 5 ft across and 6 ft deep. We hit water at about the 4 ft mark. Tried to bucket it out but it just came back in making digging very difficult and slow. It started getting late so we gave up with about half the pit left. We filled it in and were about 2 ft short for fill dirt. Luckily we knew the neighbors across the street who let us use some dirt. After about 20 trips carrying full 5 gallon buckets we had it all filled in. We didnt get out of there until 11:45pm. It was our first time and last time digging a wet pit.

Come see us this weekend at the Baltimore bottle show. Hope to see some of you there.
03/28/2025

Come see us this weekend at the Baltimore bottle show. Hope to see some of you there.

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