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  • tomahawk
    heck yeah[:D][:D][:D]
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  • GuvamintCheese
    I remember my dad drinking out of them in mid 60's. I wasnt legal to drink til 1980.

    http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=254412
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  • dongizmo
    Do you mean cans that required a "church key? to open[:p][:D]
    Don
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  • kristov
    The beer that is inside those cans is not worth the effort involved in opening them [V].
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  • sarge_3ad
    I remember. Everyone had a church key in their pocket for those type of cans. Then the pull tabs were invented and everyone was making pull tab chains.
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  • bama55
    Yes, I remember.
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  • mateomasfeo
    quote:Originally posted by sarge_3ad
    I remember. Everyone had a church key in their pocket for those type of cans. Then the pull tabs were invented and everyone was making pull tab chains.


    I still have a cowboy hat with a pull tab hat band.
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  • rhythm_guy
    Must have been before my time. Either that or it never caught on with Country Club, my dad's drink of choice.
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  • Colt Super
    I still cave a couple of church keys - can't bring myself to pitch them.

    Maybe after the end-of-civilization-as-we-know-it, that will be the only technology to open beer cans, and I will get rich.

    Ya think???

    Doug
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  • buschmaster
    heck no! the oldest I remember is the steel cans with pull tabs.

    my gawd, man, you must be a dinosaur!
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  • TooBig
    Kriston you say the beer out of them wasn't worth opening well that's all we had so I guess you would have been a non drinker. haha[:D][:0][^]
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  • SCorvers
    I have a small collection of church keys. The beer cans were before my time, but used them to open oil cans. I still need one occasionally when I buy evaporated milk to put in my morning coffee.[8D]
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  • minitruck83
    quote:Originally posted by mateomasfeo
    quote:Originally posted by sarge_3ad
    I remember. Everyone had a church key in their pocket for those type of cans. Then the pull tabs were invented and everyone was making pull tab chains.


    I still have a cowboy hat with a pull tab hat band.





    The round pull tabs (mountain dew nickles) worked so great in parking meters that they changed the shape.

    Allen
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  • mowart
    Schlitz used to be a very good premium beer. Then in the late 1960s the efficiency experts took over. They bragged to the WSJ that they had shortened the brewing time from three months to one, and instead of using those expensive Bavarian hops they now had a "pill" which could be dropped in the tank. During this cost cutting they didn't notice that their new beer tasted like horses _______ and they were losing customers. Finally, the now almost bankrupt Schlitz was bought by Miller.
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  • FEENIX
    quote:Originally posted by kristov
    The beer that is inside those cans is not worth the effort involved in opening them [V].


    Yeah, but they make pretty good targets [}:)]!
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  • john carr
    EIght or ten years ago I was out metal detecting in an area where there had been a flood. About three inches down found a can like you showed, full, never been opened. Co-incidently it was Schlitz also.
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  • whompuss
    Years ago my brother in law, a farmer, had hauled a load of beans to the State Farmers Market auction about 30 miles away. It was hot as almighty hell and he had a thirst. On the way home he stopped at an Amvets club and told the bar keeper to put him a tall Bud in a bag. He got down the road and, damn! it was the old hard top. He had removed his tool chest from the truck bed to make room for the beans, he looked, no knife, not even a nail to open the can. He unholstered his single six .22 mag he carried for varmits and carefully shot a hole in the can near the top.
    To this day he says that was the best beer he ever drank.[:D]
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  • sig232
    I remember when folks had "church keys" on their key rings for that purpose! Very common!
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  • agman1999
    Also pretty common to file the point just a little bit, as I've been told. Know a couple of guys with with some nasty scars from them.
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  • 1911a1-fan
    i only remember them from collectors when i was young, i do remember pull tabs, i made a hippie curtain out of them for my doorway, i did have about 150 feet of pull tabs in my collection at one time
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  • Da-Tank
    I keep trying to forget. Then someone brings it up again. Hope the memory of me keeps popping up like that.
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