You All Young Folks, We had “Yeti” Cooler Back in the 60s & 70s….

[murphranch]

First bachelor pad I lived in with another guy had a chain of the pull tabs we made by hooked them to each other. It went all the way around the living room ceiling.


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[gh1950]

There was some promotion where school kids could bring in the tabs, and the school exchange them for supplies.

Back the glass bottles, school fundraisers were bottle drivers, where everyone canvassed their neighborhood and brought the bottles to school, and newspaper drives, when most people still read a newspaper, they would save them, bundle them up, and take them to the school to sell,

 

[Blue bio balls]

 

[Jiggabelly]

Mine…..
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My Drill Sergeant taught me how to kill with one of those...

 

[H2O MAN]

This was the way… hahahaha
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[lostchild]

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Those old steel cans made a nice weapon in a bar fight. Grab one unopened. Palm it, slam against side of someone’s head.

 

[aFarewellToKings]

There was some promotion where school kids could bring in the tabs, and the school exchange them for supplies.

Still do, apparently.
Made sense with pull-tabs, since the alternative was to find them on the ground everywhere.
With pop-tops, they never come off unless for donation. So what's the point?

 

[aFarewellToKings]

This was the way… hahahaha
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My mother's version was wrapped in foil, newspaper, and bagged - after sitting overnight in the freezer.
One field trip, lunch sat in the school bus all morning, in the sun.
Lunch time, drink was still frozen.

 

[pavogrande]

Paper oil cans were preceded by metal cans and bottles that had a spout and cap ---
One of my chores was to refill the bottles from the 55 gal drum of oil - It was a hand cranked pump that screwed into the drum bung --
Usually only 30 wt detergent or non-detergent oil at the gas pump island - other bulk oils were inside -- 1949-50 fairfax county va --