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Remember beer can collecting? Yep, it was all the rage in the early to mid '70's. I had quite a collection at the time. I didn't keep it though, giving it away or tossing cans by the end of the decade.

Going through some boxes in the basement purging stuff I discovered a couple cans I did keep. One, the largest beer "can" I had collected, I turned into a small trash can. The other I just kept because it always made me laugh. I forgot I had these! :D

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Anyone else collection beer cans way back when?
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No Sir, I was only shootin at them in the 70's, not drinking them. Probably alot of them still laying around Superstion Mtn. that I dispatched. Man, you ARE old Ysabel! :wink:
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Ha your old :lol: :lol: :lol: .
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If I was drinking them back then, I would have caught hell at home. I was born in 1964, so I was only 16 when the '70's ended.

Well, I guess I had had a few by that point! :wink:
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JReed wrote:Ha your old :lol: :lol: :lol: .
Watch it, youngster :lol: I'm old enough to be his dad, just about :wink: Darn Jarhead kids :lol:
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Yea, remember "Billy Beer?" It was Billy Carter's attempt at making a name for himself besides just being the President's brother.


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I have a steel Schlitz can I found under my house.
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GIQ's (Giant Imperial Quarts) were all the rage, when they were introduced in the 1960's.

At parties, we used to walk around with one in a sport coat pocket, and a chain of soda straws from bottle to mouth. :roll:
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:lol: I killed enough pony kegs in germany but ever saved them.those were the days the "beer" man would del. to the front door on fri afternoons.
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Rusty took the words out of my mouth--Billy Beer. Course there was Hoppin Gator, Shlitz, Sterling, Carling Black Label[yeeeck], Grain Belt, Weidimanns[sp], Fall City, Blatz, Hamms, Colt 45 malt liquor......

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Drink the big can of german beer....
and the lady on the small can will start looking good!
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RIHMFIRE wrote:Drink the big can of german beer....
and the lady on the small can will start looking good!
:lol: :lol:
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Ysabel Kid wrote:Image

Miss Fatima Blush, aka Miss Olde Frothingslosh, who adorned the can of "the Pale Stale Ale with the Foam on the Bottom." A holiday product of Iron City Brewing Co.

Yeah, I grew up near Pittsburgh.

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I have a lamp made from an old PBR can.
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Spent many nights at the bar crying in my Red Neck, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer to some sad song on the jukebox....Like Ray Charles and "Take these chains from my heart and set me free" :cry: :lol: I'm old enough to remember when they came out with Beer in cans! No one wanted to drink from them because they were convinced that the cans would some how poison you, others said the Beer tasted bad from a can. Mike
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YK,

Have you seen the gallon sized kegs that can still be bought?

In Virginia I can buy beer in any corner market and the supermarkets have the nice large gallon size mini-kegs. They are generally overpriced so Ibuy by the case though. Warsteiner's motto is "Life is too short to drink cheep beer." More useless info I have stuck in my head.
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Watch it, youngster I'm old enough to be his dad, just about Darn Jarhead kids
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I only said it because its true :wink: :D . Dont feel bad I spend most of my day having 18year olds telling me how old I am. :D
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Another key marketing point for New Old Frothingslosh every year was: "Guaranteed to fit any shape glass".

I woulda sworn the beauty on the label went by the name of "Fatima Yechburg", or something very close to that.
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I remember in that same time frame the old pull-tabs people would join into 'chains' and it was a tacky dorm-room thing for those of us who consumed lots of beer. A decade later, my wife and I moved into an older apartment building, with most of the tenants classy older people. Our neighbor across the hall was a widow who had saved her money and visited about every country you could name. Her apartment was modest, and tastefully decorated with artifacts she'd brought back from all over the world. BUT... at the doorway between kitchen and dining area, she had a curtain made of those darned beer-can tabs! I never could get over the irony.

The final irony was that her last name was, really, "Beer." :!:
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Noah Zark wrote:
Ysabel Kid wrote:Image

Miss Fatima Blush, aka Miss Olde Frothingslosh, who adorned the can of "the Pale Stale Ale with the Foam on the Bottom." A holiday product of Iron City Brewing Co.

Yeah, I grew up near Pittsburgh.

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Ok...but what did she look like at 1:00 in the morning after 2 six-packs? :roll:
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Being relatively close to NO, we could get Jax beer and Abilene Fabacher beer. Both of which were some NASTY stuff
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Ysabel Kid wrote:If I was drinking them back then, I would have caught hell at home. I was born in 1964, so I was only 16 when the '70's ended.

Well, I guess I had had a few by that point! :wink:
1964?? Kid, I got sox older than that! :D I took after my old man and was a "Burgie" man (San Francisco Brewing Co?).
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Some place around the property I still have a cse of "ACME" beer, my step dad used to drink it but I never liked it.
Used to drive past the Burgie beer plant in San francisco, had a horriable smell to it.

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WinM71 wrote: . . . I woulda sworn the beauty on the label went by the name of "Fatima Yechburg", or something very close to that.
The brewery would change her last name from time to time.

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Beer can collecting. My brother and I had a huge beer can collection. The walls of our bedroom were covered. We had a few thousand. My brother now has a garage wall that is decorated floor to ceiling with those same and some new beer cans.
When I bought the house in Florida, there was and still is an unopened can of J.R. Ewings Private Reserve, not quite as old as what my brother and I collected but it is from 1981. I have offered it to many friends and family but nobody wants it.
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Ysabel, I will try to take my camera to my Barber the next time I go. He is ex-Army and has a wall full of collectible beer cans.
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