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« on: January 25, 2014, 06:06:39 pm »

Just got this bottle opener.  Its definitely a quikold opener and has an old Pearl Beer sticker on it.  The sticker matches the size and style of the stickers the company put on its openers for other embossed soda coolers (see dr. pepper pic).

So does this mean there is an embossed Pearl Beer quikold cooler out there somewhere?  Has anyone ever seen an embossed quikold cooler for a beer company?

would be cool if there was...

anybody know anything?
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« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2014, 10:41:49 am »

Yes there was a embossed Pabst quickold in Springfield, MO for a few years it traded hands back and fourth with a few dealers for a few years and finally disappeared. I also believe it was on ebay form awhile.

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« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2014, 10:55:15 am »

awesome, any chance you saved a picture of it? you remember what size it was? standard?
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« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2014, 01:44:24 pm »

It was a big one, probably a master. I do not have a pic of it that I remember. Randy Mitchell and John Ryan were the two guys that both owned it. It went back and fourth from their shops for several years before it finally disappeared.
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« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2014, 02:19:53 pm »

cool, thx for the info
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« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2014, 09:42:14 pm »

Yes there was a embossed Pabst quickold in Springfield, MO for a few years it traded hands back and fourth with a few dealers for a few years and finally disappeared. I also believe it was on ebay form awhile.


I think Rick's restoration bought the Pabst cooler. He called me with a few questions about it a while back.
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« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2014, 11:15:51 pm »

Remember seeing it in Ozark.. I thought it was something else, definately a master at least.. no lids, though I think it would have had slider type lids, no tub
just embossed on the front and maybe back don't remember being embossed on the side?... was blue-ish?...
I remember Randy put it on ebay as “would consider trade”.. that got it flagged and pulled from ebay. Was neat but not into beer and was too big of a cooler
never seen a beer cooler embossed... would like to see it now.
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« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2014, 10:25:55 pm »

Pabst the beer company did produce soda in the late 50's early 60's, but I think in cans only.


But there was a Pabst company in Ohio that bottled soda




So it may not have been for beer.
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« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2014, 08:17:32 am »

Here is Erics original post about the Pabst cooler, sadly no pics though!

Audio... got to stop by Randy's... (wife was asleep in the car)
saw your 44 and junior! Man he has a lot of cool stuff there... did you see the embossed
Pabst cooler? Never seen a beer cooler embossed... heck... never seen a floor model beer cooler ever.
Looked alot like a Westinghouse master or a Quikold... embossed on the front and back panels.
Front panel was enclosed all the way to where the back panel was open underneath for empty
cases..... Would love to see it restored... a rare one for sure.
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« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2014, 08:56:03 am »

wow! nice find Collecture, from the way Eric described it back then you wouldn't think it was a quikold...wonder where it ended up
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« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2014, 08:46:50 pm »

This might be what the original sticker looked liked with reversed colors, without the ‘Best of Texas’. Pearl was brewed in San Antonio TX. It was brought from Germany in the late 1880’s. Pabst didn’t buy them out until the mid 1980’s.
This might help to refresh memories.
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« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2014, 11:40:22 pm »

A little off topic but when we were clearing out my dad's drugstore before it was sold, we found an unopened bottle of Busch Ginger Ale in the back room.  Apparently that is one of the products they made to get them through Prohibition.  My mother still has that bottle somewhere.  I will take a picture and post it the next time I stop at her house.

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« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2014, 10:07:23 pm »

Here is Erics original post about the Pabst cooler, sadly no pics though!


Wow.. Good thread find... Wish I would have taken a picture... I don't know what make/model it was... Heck as rare as it sounds You may have found its
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« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2014, 12:56:05 am »

Wow.. Good thread find... Wish I would have taken a picture...

It wasn't that hard Eric...how many times does Pearl Beer get mentioned on SMC. I searched for Pearl cooler and about five results came up (inc. the current thread).
And yeah, would like to have seen a pic.
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