Look at my treasure!

Many years ago, Mary Ann Ebeltoft found an old bottle beneath her grandmother’s home in Fruitland, Wash. The amber bottle was embossed with the words, “Los Angeles Wine Company, Spokane, Washington.”

Ebeltoft was fascinated by the bottle and searched in vain for information about it. Finally, this year, after writing to the librarians at Washington State library, Ebeltoft learned a little about the bottle’s history.

“The Los Angeles Wine Company was listed in the Spokane City Directory in 1900 and it was on Sprague Avenue, downtown,” she said. By 1916, the company was no longer listed.

Ebeltoft has no idea how the bottle found its way to the small town of Fruitland, but she’s taken good care of it since finding it as a child.

“I’ve kept the bottle for all these years,” Ebeltoft said. “I just got attached to it.”