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According to a legend recorded by Alonso de Espenosa in 1594, a statue of the Virgin Mary, bearing a child in one hand and a green candle in the other (hence "Candelaria"), was discovered on the beach of Chimisay (Guimay) by two Gaunche goatherds in 1392. This was before the Castilian conquest of the island of Tenerife (the island was not fully conquered until 1496)...
Later, Anton, a Guanche who had been enslaved and converted to Christianity by the Castilians, returned to Tenerife and recognized the statue as that of the Virgin Mary. He told the mencey of his conversion and the statue was thus venerated ..
The cult of the Virgin of Candelaria swept America due to the emigration of Canarians. They brought the devotion as a symbol of their culture...
Here is the link for more about that.
Virgin of Candelaria - Wikipedia
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A few days ago, I posted a cell phone found by Mark G., and Mark brought up the excellent topic of how finds change with the times. We didn't find cell phones or other personal electronics on the beach a few decades ago but in recent years they have become somewhat common finds.
I got to thinking about what things we find now that we didn't find in the past and what things we don't find anymore that we used to find a lot.
I found buckets of those big brass room keys in the past, but only very rarely now.
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| Brass Key and Fob From the Breakers. |
I had buckets of keys from various hotels.
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| Bucket of Found Keys. |
There were also the smaller keys with the big plastic fobs. You can see some of those in the bucket.
They have been replaced to a large extent by the room key cards.
It was an expense to the hotels to replace lost keys and the locks, as well as a security issue.
I used to find a lot of arcade game tokens. Not so much anymore.
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| A Sample of Token Finds. |
Tokens really reflect history. In the past I've found tax tokens, turnpike tokens and tokens for various businesses and products that no longer exist.
I found turnpike tokens from up north in the past.
Talking about turnpikes, I used to find silver coins in the change return machines on the Florida turnpike. The machines would return foreign coins and silver coins, which could be found in the coin return, which I checked every time I went through.
Now of course, they don't have either the machines or the tellers. Now your car is scanned, and you pay by SunPass or they bill your license plate.
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| Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus World Token. |
I just found out that Circus World was a theme park built north of Haines City, Fl, which opened in 1974 and closed in 1986. If I knew that before, I forgot.
You don't find the crown type soda bottle caps anymore, although you find similar beer bottle caps.
You find very few ring type pull tabs now. They were replaced in 1974.
The most obvious changes are in the trash. Now you find a lot more plastic trash, including bags, water bottles and bottle caps.
Cash and coins are being replaced by other kinds of payment methods, but there are still a good many of both to be found.
I don't think eye-glasses are such common finds anymore.
It seems to me that watches are less common finds too. Some people still wear them, but not so much.
Can you add to the list.
Some things you might find more of or less of because of changes you have made. For example, you might not hunt the same locations, or you might use more or less discrimination or have a better metal detector. Do not include changes that could be the result of changes you made rather than changes in the culture or technology.
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| Surfchart from Surfguru.com. |