Old Collection Photo

[idigrust]

Not quite 1937 like Mr. Joe Veg, but here is mine from 1978

[Flat_Top]

Is that a long A Altes zip up there? What was the dogs name?

[idigrust]

Is that a long A Altes zip up there? What was the dogs name?

1: Highly doubt it, and if so, I don't have it anymore.
2: Kerry - Irish Setter.

[renokenn]

oooh! Red dog. Had 3 over the years, last was Chianti. Love those hyper running dogs.

[Leon]

The collection hasn't changed much, it still looks the same now. LEON.

[Diamond State Boy]

Looks a lot like my collection in the late 70s...currents and cans neighbors brought from their travels. Then I got a detector in 1980. Was out of my mind with joy when I dug a Parti Quiz and a case of Doelgers OIs. Ah the good old days.

[HiJax]

The two great loves of your childhood in one photo. Awesome. I was the same way, except I had a Springer Spaniel.

[iggyks]

Here are some of mine circa 1974 . I had a Brittany spaniel but she was an outside dog. The Canadian Ace cone was sitting on the kitchen counter of an abandoned farmhouse I went into to warm up when hunting; The Muehlebach Pilsener was found same farm in a chicken coop.

[iggyks]

@Canadacan - some Canadian sodas in bottom picture I picked up in 1981 when we went to Ontario and Manitoba.

[kb]

Like the others , looks very similar .. somewhere in my parents big box are some pictures of me and collection in late 70s.. wish we were more organized ... oh nice to see you had both Genesee ( beer and cream ale cans )


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[Rand]

Mid 70s.....horrible pictures, but this thread prompted me to scan them for posterity. Taken with an old Polaroid SX70 in an apartment building somewhere near Bissonnet and 59 in southwest Houston Texas.

Rand :-)

[potters66]

I'll dig up some old ones when I get back home but here was my first good off grade collection start.

Steve

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[Sea Monkey]

I'll dig up some old ones when I get back home but here was my first good off grade collection start.

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That's a better collection than I CURRENTLY have....lol.

[beerhunter14]

I see a Schultz light !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And few other rare cans. Talk about a good start !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kamsquared]

Christmas gift exchange at Michigan Tech in Houghton, MI with my college roommates...circa 1988. That's my friend John opening up his 6'er of Old Mil 16 ozers and a can of whip cream.
I had kind of stopped actively collecting since graduating high school in 1986 but always made sure there was a beer can display behind the bar. Didn't really get back into collecting until about 2006.

[Ziphippie]

no idea who the girl is in this photo from 1980 but she liked the can collection so much she just had to get a pic with them. The look on her face says it all....like, really?

I quit collecting mid-eighties but always displayed a wall of cans, didn't start again until I got a cellphone/computer about 2005 and found eBay. Still not a member of Facebook so quit trying to send me there! Bjorn

[chateaudebris]

Santa clause got me started collecting cans??

[Dixie Dave]

Here is one of me with my sister, my dad, and our poodle Petite from 1980. Yes, those were the plastic shelves with the black elastic things to hold the cans up from Sears. Real shelves would be a few years later. Really happy at the time because I had just picked up that gallon can at a local flea market- my first big can.

[fiat128]

a can of whip cream.

I bet you weren't putting that on pie...

[potters66]

Found another old one... I had no grey hair then.

Supersize... I see a New Yorker and Poths in there

[Summitcan]

Is that Dingle Bay next to the Trommers ?

[Summitcan]

Let me use my computer skills to zoom in
see if I can clean up the pic a little bit

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[potters66]

Is that Dingle Bay next to the Trommers ?

Yup and a trumps hiding in there also.

[Summitcan]

Is that Dingle Bay next to the Trommers ?

Yup and a trumps hiding in there also.

...and directly below an Imperial OI

[Rand]

Imperial.....leads directly to the Trumps......taking you directly to the winner ....the Poth's Ale!!!

[chateaudebris]

A good old lucky day!!!!!

[chateaudebris]

The rest of that lucky dig!

[Leon]

Some Killer finds there Dave.

[Joe Older]

My collection after my first day collecting beer cans. Rode my bike around with a buddy picking up cans off the side of the roads near my parents home in Vienna, West Virginia. 1976. Looking at it now it seems weird that I'd find Coors and Olympia. The Genny Cream Ale started it all when I found it a few days earlier and took it to a friends little brother that was collecting. He said he already had it so I kept it and decided to start my own collection. 41 years later and I'm still at it. Great hobby, great people!

[DaddyDewrop]

Circa 1979 - Santa brought me a Henninger Export gallon can for Christmas!