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« on: January 31, 2010, 11:31:47 pm » |
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My roommate bought this at an antique store and gave it to me today. It was really cool looking and we compared it to a pepsi throwback can and it is almost identical. It looks great ontop of my pepsi machine and we found that it is the exact size for the can opener. I just thought this was really cool.  |
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Creighton
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« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2010, 01:28:53 am » |
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Nice gift!!
I was 12 in 1973, you could make all kinds of fun stuff out of the straight sided cans.
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« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2010, 05:28:55 pm » |
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Loved those steel cans back in the day...they used to make a magnetic wrap that looked like a mountain dew or pepsi can and you could wrap your beer can and drive around all day long without the cops busting you  |
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Kilroy
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« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2010, 05:36:13 pm » |
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Don't forget making a chain from top pull tabs that proudly hung from your rear view mirror
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« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2010, 05:51:43 pm » |
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My grandmother used to cut the cans in panels and knit them into hats. She did a lot of those in Stroh's Beer. Similar to the one in the attached picture. Wish I still had one!  Tim |
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« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2010, 06:32:54 pm » |
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Don't forget the tennis ball rocket launcher. You would can-punch a hole in the bottom of one and leave the top alone with the pull tab removed, tape two more cans on top of it with their top and bottoms cut out. I think we would put a little rubbing alcohol in the bottom one and light it through the can-punched hole. The tennis ball would fire out of it like a bazooka going 100-150 ft. up in the air.
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« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2010, 07:09:07 pm » |
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My roommate bought this at an antique store and gave it to me today.
It didn't hit me at first, but then I realized, wow, trash I tossed out as a kid is showing up in antique shops.  |
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« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2010, 08:01:13 pm » |
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« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2010, 08:57:23 pm » |
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Not to get off the topic ...But i was at Kroger the other day and i notice Coke Cola made there short lunch box can different. It looks like the old 6 oz juice can but it is a 7.5 oz can. Anyone else seen this yet?
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« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2010, 09:38:14 pm » |
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Or on a shelf in my basement  Very impressive collection! Are those all steel cans? Look to be in pristine condition. |
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« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2010, 09:43:01 pm » |
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Very impressive collection! Are those all steel cans? Look to be in pristine condition.
Thank You! Yes these are all steel cans and all of them were bottled in Minnesota. There are a few off grade cans if you look closely but most are pretty much like you would have found them when they were new. This is just a small portion of my collection although I have downsized it quit a bit. At one time I had over 2000 different Shasta cans but have been slowly selling those off. |
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« Reply #11 on: February 01, 2010, 10:18:15 pm » |
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I think I might have a new thing to collect. They are really neat looking. Right now I have the can on display on my 7up clock. Fits perfectly. Also I did not intend this at all the arrow is pointing to the pepsi machine but it just worked out this way. lol  |
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« Reply #13 on: February 01, 2010, 10:46:37 pm » |
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Clock and messag board looks great but it should say "Go Blue!" Tim Had to put Go Big Red for the Huskers. Thanks the clock is really a cool thing to have here. It was a pain in the first place as the mechanism did not work but I took it appart but I got it working. Only thing wrong is that the light takes for ever to turn on. |
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« Reply #14 on: February 03, 2010, 10:23:31 pm » |
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Don't forget the tennis ball rocket launcher. You would can-punch a hole in the bottom of one and leave the top alone with the pull tab removed, tape two more cans on top of it with their top and bottoms cut out. I think we would put a little rubbing alcohol in the bottom one and light it through the can-punched hole. The tennis ball would fire out of it like a bazooka going 100-150 ft. up in the air.
That sounds like it would be fun. |
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« Reply #15 on: February 04, 2010, 01:38:28 am » |
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It was great fun. We used lighter fluid. Another one for playing Army was secure a can on a short piece of broom handle. Drill a hole to hold a firecracker. Very good "gernade". Didn't have SWAT teams or Homeland Security issues back then.
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« Reply #16 on: February 04, 2010, 10:44:32 am » |
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That sounds like it would be fun.
It was fun until the principal of my Junior High school confiscated it from us while we were playing with it on recess. |
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« Reply #17 on: February 04, 2010, 10:56:22 am » |
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I think back to the things we did as kids, and wonder how I'm still alive, with all limbs, eyes, toes and fingers still intact today.
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« Reply #18 on: July 11, 2010, 12:00:27 am » |
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I found another one today. Went to an antique store and found some aluminum mountain dew cans. Bought one for a buck and I now have it sitting on my 7up clock with the pepsi can and the 7up can. I kind of like finding these cans. They are cheap and easy to find and they are also neat to display with stuff like this.
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« Reply #19 on: July 11, 2010, 12:09:58 am » |
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Clock and messag board looks great but it should say "Go Blue!" Tim Don't you mean GO GREEN Hey Vend Dr Do collect can's from just MN. ? I have some that I will snap a picture of tomorrow to show you. |
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« Reply #20 on: July 11, 2010, 04:04:55 am » |
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Plse don't show can collections.... I have no wall space... And I'm thinking that would be a cool thing to
collect and postage costs from the US aren't going to be that high...
Come on guys ...Give a poor man with no wall space a break....
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