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[lolly_loisides]

Picked up a few more tchotckes today.

 

[fortworthgal]

You would find one of these in avocado. lol lol
I have the same thing in tan on my bar cart.

Ah, the Dazey ice crusher. We have one of those mounted above our kitchen sink. Ours is a red & chrome bullet-style, though. The bracket was original to the house but missing the crusher, so we picked one up at an antique shop. Super handy!

Tom, I like your style. I also like those beer cans.

About 10 years ago we used to buy 12 packs of Hamms at a liquor store near our old apartment, because it was dirt cheap.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Thank you so much! I need to get over to my parents' house and get some photos of the Brewery Collection that my father and I have been building together for years.

My dad drinks Hamm's here, too, because it's a little over 10 bucks a 30 pack.

Tom, I like your style. I also like those beer cans.

About 10 years ago we used to buy 12 packs of Hamms at a liquor store near our old apartment, because it was dirt cheap.

 

[LocktownDog]

Nice find, Tom.

Lolly - Love the little ceramic ... could do without the creepy bust though.

 

[jamespowers]

Picked up a few more tchotckes today.

I love the asian figurine. I collect them so they are sort of my thing.

 

[jamespowers]

Thank you so much! I need to get over to my parents' house and get some photos of the Brewery Collection that my father and I have been building together for years.

My dad drinks Hamm's here, too, because it's a little over 10 bucks a 30 pack.

Hamms is still available? I don't see it anymore out here. Has it gone regional or what?

 

[jamespowers]

Oh, 4-door hardtops are my favorites! I'm not a big 2-door guy, not very practical.

Yeah, maybe I should have got it and shipped it over there.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Oh yeah. I was looking at the beer the other day. Hamm's, Blatz, Old Style, Pabst, Schlitz. All still available.

Hamms is still available? I don't see it anymore out here. Has it gone regional or what?

I won't stop you lol

Yeah, maybe I should have got it and shipped it over there.

 

[jamespowers]

Oh yeah. I was looking at the beer the other day. Hamm's, Blatz, Old Style, Pabst, Schlitz. All still available.



I won't stop you lol

I'll have to look around out here for them then.

I figured you wouldn't.

 

[fortworthgal]

Thank you so much! I need to get over to my parents' house and get some photos of the Brewery Collection that my father and I have been building together for years.

My dad drinks Hamm's here, too, because it's a little over 10 bucks a 30 pack.

We used to buy Hamm's, Olympia, Schlitz, Pearl... then our liquor stores all stopped carrying them. In their defense, Pearl truly was horrible stuff in the later years.

My husband used to collect the metal beer openers, the ones with a pointed end & a round end. He has given away hundreds but still has quite a few. All the old beers like Jax.

Ugh, you're joking on the price of Hamms! Back before it disappeared altogether, it was around $8 for a 6-pack. I guess much like PBR, Lone Star and Pearl it became popular with the hipsters who drove the price up. lol At least they haven't gotten to Miller High Life yet. lol

 

[AtomicEraTom]

My dad and I actually have people bring up Lone Star with them from Texas when they go down there. We just love it! I gave some to a friend and he says it's the best beer he's ever had. The hipsters did drive the price up on all that stuff. Also, people who are trying to hard to be 'rednecks' or 'cowboys' in these parts enjoy drinking Blue Ribbon.

We used to buy Hamm's, Olympia, Schlitz, Pearl... then our liquor stores all stopped carrying them. In their defense, Pearl truly was horrible stuff in the later years.

My husband used to collect the metal beer openers, the ones with a pointed end & a round end. He has given away hundreds but still has quite a few. All the old beers like Jax.

Ugh, you're joking on the price of Hamms! Back before it disappeared altogether, it was around $8 for a 6-pack. I guess much like PBR, Lone Star and Pearl it became popular with the hipsters who drove the price up. lol At least they haven't gotten to Miller High Life yet. lol

 

[tonyb]

My dad wholesaled Pabst Blue Ribbon beer to small-town grocers and country tavern-keepers around your neck of the woods back in the mid-'60s, Tom. His primary competition was the guy who sold Hamm's. I still recall when the distributorship he worked for took on another brand -- this fancy imported stuff called Heineken. You'd be forgiven for thinking folks like us had been invited into the jet set, what with that Heineken and all. Wasn't long after that that the Old Man bought himself a 6-year-old Lincoln Continental, the finest automobile a man could ever hope to have, as he told it. He totaled that car a year or so later. I think the Heineken had something to do with that.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Oh, really? That's fascinating!

Hey, I wouldn't mind a 6 year old Lincoln, myself! I'd go for the Town Car, though! That Heineken will do that to you every time lol

My dad wholesaled Pabst Blue Ribbon beer to small-town grocers and country tavern-keepers around your neck of the woods back in the mid-'60s, Tom. His primary competition was the guy who sold Hamm's. I still recall when the distributorship he worked for took on another brand -- this fancy imported stuff called Heineken. You'd be forgiven for thinking folks like us had been invited into the jet set, what with that Heineken and all. Wasn't long after that that the Old Man bought himself a 6-year-old Lincoln Continental, the finest automobile a man could ever hope to have, as he told it. He totaled that car a year or so later. I think the Heineken had something to do with that.

 

[Phineas Lamour]

I have a patch on my jacket that says "I <3 Pabst". Got it from a place in Lakeland, Florida called the Chop Shop. A hotrod/rockabilly themed burger joint.

 

[Phineas Lamour]

lol At least they haven't gotten to Miller High Life yet. lol

Ahh, The Champagne of Beers.

 

[LoveMyHats2]

Picked up a few more tchotckes today.

The head... almost is like a shrunken head from some natives covered with plaster!

 

[Stearmen]

Rocky Mountain Sewer Water

I remember back in the 60s, the last thing we would do before heading to Iowa was to stop at the liquor store for some cases of Coors!

 

[tonyb]

I remember back in the 60s, the last thing we would do before heading to Iowa was to stop at the liquor store for some cases of Coors!

Forbidden fruit and all that. When I was a senior in high school (I was living in Seattle at that point) a buddy and I drove my VW microbus to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho and filled up that old babe with cases of Coors in the can. (Retailers were considerably more casual about checking ID's back then.) Didn't do that van any favors. I think we could have kept pace with it on foot coming back home over Snoqualmie Pass.

Coors has been available in this state for decades now, and so of course it has lost its cachet.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

The Pabst with the 'Tapa Can' markings is from the late '30s/early 40's, would be my guess. Pre-War it looks to me. I like the Weideman's, too. That's my plant manager's last name lol Very nice finds!

Back in the early 1970s when my dad started collecting Breweriana, my Great-Aunt Bunny would send him up cases of Coors all the time.

I remember back in the 60s, the last thing we would do before heading to Iowa was to stop at the liquor store for some cases of Coors!

Forbidden fruit and all that. When I was a senior in high school (I was living in Seattle at that point) a buddy and I drove my VW microbus to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho and filled up that old babe with cases of Coors in the can. (Retailers were considerably more casual about checking ID's back then.) Didn't do that van any favors. I think we could have kept pace with it on foot coming back home over Snoqualmie Pass.

Coors has been available in this state for decades now, and so of course it has lost its cachet.

 

[randooch]

Very cool stuff on this thread. I need to tune in here more often!

Today I found this 1960's steamer with box. It works great, too! I used it on a hat or two and was quite pleased. I paid a whole dollar.