Anyone ever collect beer cans?
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Don’t have any Billy Beer
But I do have unopened 6 packs on plastic rings that kill dolphins of.
M*A*S*H beer
Who Dey
Worlds Fair from early 80s
LA Beer
115th Ky Derby
Rock n Roll (mid 80s)
I few more that I can’t remember
But I do have unopened 6 packs on plastic rings that kill dolphins of.
M*A*S*H beer
Who Dey
Worlds Fair from early 80s
LA Beer
115th Ky Derby
Rock n Roll (mid 80s)
I few more that I can’t remember
I did, as a kid in the late 70s to early 80s. Had probably 200 or so from all around the world, some unopened. Had a few magazines/booklets for collectors showing the alleged worth of different cans. Used to search for them on sides of roads and especially along railroad tracks. My dad and my uncle bought a few in different stores.
My dad trashed them all while I was away at college or grad school. They probably weren't worth much by then anyway.
Only one I still have is a Hudepohl Cincinnati Reds World Series special edition can.
My dad trashed them all while I was away at college or grad school. They probably weren't worth much by then anyway.
Only one I still have is a Hudepohl Cincinnati Reds World Series special edition can.
Yes! Did that for a couple decades. Went to college and my family threw away thousands of dollars worth of collectible cans before I could line my apartment walls with them. Was totally pssed.
We did. Traded with and sold cans to neighbors. Went to garage sales looking for them and dug quite a few up over those early years. Traveled to old and abandoned breweries... Fun times as a kid
Same here re:family, but they were and are still worth some money. The problem for me was it was a shared collection with my siblings
Had a bunch of unopened Iron City cans with Steelers team photos from SB Championship seasons. Had some BRM (Hudepohl I think maybe). Want to say I had some other baseball team/player cans as well. Had a bunch of pinup themed cans. St Paulie Girl and one or two other brands. Got a ton of wildlife themed cans from beer brands popular in Wiscy, Iowa, MN, and the UP.
Had some from Japan, Israel, Australia, England, Scandinavia, plenty from Canada, about 7 or so cone tops. Quite a few solid tops but most were opened/ empty. Had a shelf wall full of cans, plus some crated/boxed multiples of the same, that we used fir trading. Had one sibling in the Navy and another that traveled and sent/brought us back some cool and rare finds.
I had several Olde Frothingslosh cans with "pinup girls." Yikes!
Images of Olde Frothingslosh beer cans
A lot of my opened cans were opened from the bottom so that the top remained untouched.
I also had several Iron City cans. I had good friends from Pittsburgh, and they would sometimes go back there to visit and get cans there for me.
It's interesting to me that there used to be so many regional/local beer brewers back in the 70s, and most went away as the big names came to dominate. By the 90s, it seemed like there were only a few major brands left around. Then there was another explosion of microbrews/local breweries in the 2000s, but there was no longer much interest in their cans (if they even provided their beer in cans).
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Dude that owned O'Connells Irish Pub in Louisville had hundreds of beer cans displayed throughout the place.
i remember an older frothingslosh slogan from somewhere back in the day “to wit to woo, the two-headed brew”
never could figure out what the hell that meant
Initially it was on Fegenbush Lane in the Highview area. He moved to Shepherdsville Road when they increased his rent dramatically. He's since retired.
Oh yeah! Neighbor had those. We were able to trade for couple he had doubles of. Forgot about those. Parents weren't thrilled with them on display. Lol
Had TONS of different Schmidt cans with wildlife illustrations on them, too.
It's cyclical. Tons opened after WW2 and shut down in the late 50s early 60s. The labels that survived thrived because of marketing. Then the larger companies drove them out by bottoming out the price and buying them up.
Rinse and repeat for the 2000s. The beer is rarely as good as the marketing but the marketing is what keeps them afloat.
