Trays

[renokenn]

These are the only trays I have left other than the Reno Brewing one. I kept them for different reasons.

The Burger tray was given to me by my wife's cousin. Another reason to keep her.

The Holihan's DuBois and Pickwick are all common but there is a story. Look below.

I bought the Narry tray many years ago just because. It has a dibs on it from a granddaughter
The Blackhawk came from a long time friend

My wife is from Coshocton Ohio. Been married for 45 years. Her father died about 10 years ago and when I was helping clean up his garage I found a stack of trashed trays and several that were full of nails, screws, etc. Somehow in all those years nobody thought to tell me that he worked for American Arts and his job was to put the liners in the bottom of the tray. He kept one of every tray he made but by the time I knew about it they were trash. These are the 3 survivors. And oh yeah, my mother-in-law did a modeling thingy with them also. That came out when I was crying over the trays. Life is full of hidden surprises.

[DaveNH]

Great story. Thanks for sharing it. Love that Gansett tray!

[storzman]

great story! My wife grew up in New Hampshire and when we started dating and her dad (now passed on sadly) saw I collected beer stuff he gave me two trays that also were stored in the garage - the same Pickwick Renokenn has - two of them stacked atop each other. the top one was total trash - the bottom only a few chips on the rim as preserved under the other one. I got a few other Pickwick items after that I still have - the big bottle advertising piece and another tray.

[renokenn]

And the mother-in-law. The experts here id the bottle as Cerveza Caracas