As part of the celebration of ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #32.  If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com.  Thanks!

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Enjoy some old photos of the Coal City, Braidwood, and Wilmington area spoil piles in the 1950s and 1960s.  It’s too bad some of those are aren’t still open for collecting!

Mazon Creek

Strip Mine, Peabody Coal Co.

Fossil nodule on hill

Krup shovel, Peabody Coal Co

Strip area, Coal City, IL

ESCONI lunch, Ceco Club, Coal City, Prepp, Sobolik, H&K Mathies, John & Dick Ade

Nancy at Coal City Club