Anyone Else Like Beer Memorabilia?

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I got it home and it is nicer than I thought it would be for a 60 year old neon.

 
BrianT said:
I got it home and it is nicer than I thought it would be for a 60 year old neon.

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Nice score there Brian! Yeah, that's right there at the top of the wish list for many enthusiasts, and you stumbled across it! It pays to keep.your nose to the grindstone. Congratulations on bringing home a winner. Works beautifully too, that's a keeper right there.
 
Here's my latest estate sale find. I picked this one up pretty cheap on Friday. It has a couple of bulbs that flicker and the scene didn't rotate. Spent about thirty minutes with some lube and a screwdriver and now the scene moves like it should. I'll spend today detailing it out and making look presentable. It supposedly hung in a local bar for years and then was put in a basement by the bar owner's daughter.

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BrianT said:
Here's my latest estate sale find. I picked this one up pretty cheap on Friday. It has a couple of bulbs that flicker and the scene didn't rotate. Spent about thirty minutes with some lube and a screwdriver and now the scene moves like it should. I'll spend today detailing it out and making look presentable. It supposedly hung in a local bar for years and then was put in a basement by the bar owner's daughter.

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That's a dandy!
 
BrianT said:
Here's my latest estate sale find. I picked this one up pretty cheap on Friday. It has a couple of bulbs that flicker and the scene didn't rotate. Spent about thirty minutes with some lube and a screwdriver and now the scene moves like it should. I'll spend today detailing it out and making look presentable. It supposedly hung in a local bar for years and then was put in a basement by the bar owner's daughter.

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You need to get to Steve's place sometime.
 
man folks collected memorabilia without knowing it...they may not have a bottle, sign or clock on the wall but they still have the girl they woke up with one morning after a wild night out...
 
LocuMob said:
You need to get to Steve's place sometime.
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We're trying to put a trip together right now. I bought some cardboard signs last weekend and Steve had never seen them before!?!?! I sold them to him for his collection but kept the big country club sign for myself. It's mid 50's and very cool. At least I think so!
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BrianT said:
We're trying to put a trip together right now. I bought some cardboard signs last weekend and Steve had never seen them before!?!?! I sold them to him for his collection but kept the big country club sign for myself. It's mid 50's and very cool. At least I think so!
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Always good when you can find something he hasn't!
 
my68barracuda said:
I guess the statute of limitations has ran its course, so it is safe to say that back in the late 60's during my wild college freshman days, a buddy and I lifted the neon Miller Beer sign and the lighted Falstaff signs from the roof displays of a local tavern, managed to hang on to them for 50+ years, when I built the new garage in 2010, got em restored. with the neon and lights working and hung them in the garage.

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I have been looking at Miller signs for a while now, every time I find one someone outbids me on it !
 
BrianT said:
And 90% of Mopar A bodies were grocery getters that the rest of the world turned their noses up at. Now 50 years later, they're suddenly some great car??? The Hamm's bear campaign is an iconic marketing/sales strategy that is taught around the country in our colleges and universities, and it's merchandise is one of the most collectable of the post prohibition beers. It about nostalgia. I'd be willing to bet most of the guy's my age recognize the theme music.

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I remember !
 
'73red-duster said:
Hamms wasn't a very good beer, IMO, but they did have some of the best advertising. My brother collects mostly Stag stuff, and I have quite a bit of GB, (Griesedieck Brothers).
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My dad drank Stagg, I used to bring a case back w/ me when he had his second beer joint and keep it in my locker in the Air Force, (8 hr. drive) cooled it letting tap water run over it .
It`s Miller or nothing for me now, everything else just don't taste right , not that I drink that much anymore .
 
famous bob said:
My dad drank Stagg, I used to bring a case back w/ me when he had his second beer joint and keep it in my locker in the Air Force, (8 hr. drive) cooled it letting tap water run over it .
It`s Miller or nothing for me now, everything else just don't taste right , not that I drink that much anymore .
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I had some friends go out of state recently and they bought a case of beer everywhere they stopped to bring back home. Friday night, I had a Stag, a Lone Star, a Carling's, a Blatz, and a.... I forget.
 
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BrianT said:
I had some friends go out of state recently and they bought a case of beer everywhere they stopped to bring back home. Friday night, I had a Stag, a Lone Star, a Carling's, a Blatz, and a.... I forget.
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I got that , did u go to sleep early ?
 
BrianT said:
We're trying to put a trip together right now. I bought some cardboard signs last weekend and Steve had never seen them before!?!?! I sold them to him for his collection but kept the big country club sign for myself. It's mid 50's and very cool. At least I think so!
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@LocuMob I'm meeting up with Steve today and trading him these cardboard signs for some Hamm's signs that I've always wanted. These are pretty rare and deserve to be in his collection. Sadly, we are meeting in Nebraska so I still won't get to see his collection.
 
BrianT said:
@LocuMob I'm meeting up with Steve today and trading him these cardboard signs for some Hamm's signs that I've always wanted. These are pretty rare and deserve to be in his collection. Sadly, we are meeting in Nebraska so I still won't get to see his collection.
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I got bummed out, until I read you were in Nebraska. I was out of town myself. What did you have that he wanted?
 
I traded him the three cardboard signs above. Turns out they are a set that are actually pretty rare. I wasn't going to do them justice in my meager collection so I traded them to Steve for three motion signs. Here's the first one.
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It's been a while since I updated this thread, but with the lockdown in effect here, I've been getting signs hung on the walls. Here is what we got done yesterday.



I hung this one a couple of weeks ago. It was named the Dominator for obvious reasons.

 
BrianT said:
It's been a while since I updated this thread, but with the lockdown in effect here, I've been getting signs hung on the walls. Here is what we got done yesterday.



I hung this one a couple of weeks ago. It was named the Dominator for obvious reasons.

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You've got a nice collection going there Brian
 
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