OT: Old Beer Can Found

[curtisce]

On 9/19/2021 at 6:11 PM, ness said:

Remember these confounded, finger cutters?

 

Oh yeah Lived near Golden CO growing up. 3.2 beer was legal at 18 so we  got  our fair share of cuts.maybe a few before we turned 18.

[Quillback]

Here's a pre-can beer bottle, found at a flea market, not in a river.

 

 

 

One of my ancestors was a snake oil salesman.  

When I lived in Washington, my neighbors were bottle collectors, they used to travel all over looking for bottles and would dig into old outhouse holes to look for them too.  They gave me this one, probably 1870's or so.

[Mark]

Anyone ever play "bottle caps"? As a child, I remember the men playing this baseball variation game behind the tavern. The bartender would keep the bottle caps in buckets, and on Saturday afternoons the men would play. Similar to their wiffleball rules.No base running. Pitcher, catcher, and batters.  One strike IF the barehanded catcher caught it. Used a broom handle for a bat. Only singles and home runs. Amazing how some of the oldtimers could wizz the caps. 

[jdmidwest]

I used to dump the old bottle caps out of Grandpa's store soda machine on the ground in front.  Made good pavement.

The best Mountain Dew came out of that machine there.  That woodpile fed the potbelly stove in the middle of it that kept it warm.