OT: Old Beer Can Found

[steve l]

How about something other than I went fishing and caught fish or didn't?  Floated the 11P last week, and paddled up the Blue spring branch for the first time in a number of years and found the beer can in the picture. Note the instructions of how to use a church key to open the can. I also like the blurb on the front of the can that says 12 oz just like a bottle. My Googling finds that Best Brewing was the first brewery in Chicago to can their beer, starting in 1935. The message on the can saying the brewery was founded in 1891 and been in operation for nearly half a century seems to indicate this can was from maybe the late 1930s to early 40s. So that can has likely been there for 80ish years! At that time beer distribution was mostly local and regional, so wonder how a beer can from a Chicago brewery ended up in the spring branch 80 years ago. Someone touring the area I suppose? Chucked it it from the overlook? Oh, I did get a nicely colored 17 inch rainbow and enough goggle eye to fry up for dinner one night.

[BilletHead]

1 hour ago, steve l said:

How about something other than I went fishing and caught fish or didn't?  Floated the 11P last week, and paddled up the Blue spring branch for the first time in a number of years and found the beer can in the picture. Note the instructions of how to use a church key to open the can. I also like the blurb on the front of the can that says 12 oz just like a bottle. My Googling finds that Best Brewing was the first brewery in Chicago to can their beer, starting in 1935. The message on the can saying the brewery was founded in 1891 and been in operation for nearly half a century seems to indicate this can was from maybe the late 1930s to early 40s. So that can has likely been there for 80ish years! At that time beer distribution was mostly local and regional, so wonder how a beer can from a Chicago brewery ended up in the spring branch 80 years ago. Someone touring the area I suppose? Chucked it it from the overlook? Oh, I did get a nicely colored 17 inch rainbow and enough goggle eye to fry up for dinner one night.

                        This is pretty neat. Thanks for sharing and picking op the trash

[Lvn2Fish]

That’s pretty neat . A few years ago I found a bud light can like the one pictured (on the left) . It was still sealed and full of beer . Although no one was inebriated enough to try it 😂 

[Quillback]

That is a pretty neat find, I can remember the days of using can openers, well I remember the adults using them.  Something I had forgotten about, it's neat to see reminders like this of the ways things were back in the day.  It also brings back memories of those throw away tabs they used to have on cans, pull the tab right off the can.  

Oil cans too.  

 

 

[ness]

31 minutes ago, Quillback said:

That is a pretty neat find, I can remember the days of using can openers, well I remember the adults using them.  Something I had forgotten about, it's neat to see reminders like this of the ways things were back in the day.  It also brings back memories of those throw away tabs they used to have on cans, pull the tab right off the can.  

Oil cans too.  

 

 

Remember these confounded, finger cutters?

 

[Quillback]

I do remember those, something else I had forgotten about.  

[Johnsfolly]

I have quite a few cans at the house. I only have a couple of the cone top cans that look like those oil cans. I have a Coors can like the one shown above. I never had seen any can from the Best brewing company. That is definitely a cool find. Pretty darn good condition for being out in the elements for that long. Thanks for posting that find.

[jdmidwest]

Notice the rust on the can, that was before aluminum cans.

It best you paddled up to see it, I got a dose of seed ticks last weekend hiking down the mowed trail to Morgan and Blue Springs at Narrows.

[moguy1973]

Reminds me of a time I was floating on the Big River between DesLoge and Leadwood and found an old stubby Pepsi bottle, like the one below, floating along.  Those bottles were from the 80's.  Makes you wonder how a bottle like that survives that long without being broken, or who the person was that had that sitting around and decided to drink it finally and discard it in the river.

[jdmidwest]

9 hours ago, moguy1973 said:

Reminds me of a time I was floating on the Big River between DesLoge and Leadwood and found an old stubby Pepsi bottle, like the one below, floating along.  Those bottles were from the 80's.  Makes you wonder how a bottle like that survives that long without being broken, or who the person was that had that sitting around and decided to drink it finally and discard it in the river.

They made glass thicker back then.  Probably why the label torn, glanced off something when they tossed it.

And we have had many "100" year floods in the past 20 years, probably flushed out of some junkpile somewhere.