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I Think I Already Have My Item Of The CANvention

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I think I have already got my piece of the show. I know it hasn’t started yet but I don’t know if I can top this. Most people know I collect Continental Can Comany items.
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I got back into Portland from my driving vacation a day early, so I was able to take a trip to the old Continental Can Company factory in Portland which is disused. It still has the sign at the front from Crown Cork which is the company that took over some of the CCC business.
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I looked through the windows of the offices and they were stripped bare. I then went to the side of the building and looked through the chain wire fences and took some photos of the buildings.
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I then noticed a sign for the employee carpark on the chain wire fence behind some trees. I walked over to the sign and it was held on by some rusting wire that had been there for possibly 40 years or more.I grabbed on the sign and the wire on two corners broke straight away and then the other two wires broke away as well. Well at that point I could not leave the sign there as it would be littering!

I really hope I get some good items this week but any of them will have to be good to beat this.


Looking for any Guinness Items and any Continental Can Company items
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Keith....killer grab...not sure how long that plant has been open but just imagine the test cans that must have been in there.......Have any history on that plant???
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Not with me. Could have on my spreadsheets at home.
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Free is best
WANT ANY MONTANA BREWERIANA
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All those years and they never corrected the missing N... resposible/responsible :)
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