FREMONT, Wis., April 29 (UPI) — A trio of friends fishing in a Wisconsin river made perhaps the most Wisconsin-appropriate catch of all time — a 60-year-old six pack of beer.
Adam Graves and Christian Burzynski said they were fishing during the weekend on the Wolf River in Fremont when their friend Andy dredged up the six pack of Budweiser cans. more here
Good thing they were empty…..
I ain’t buying it…the plastic holder-togetherer gizmo is not that old. Not sayin’ they aren’t old, but not 60 years…
yup, don’t think they were using the plastic thingie in the mid 1950s. I smell BS
I mean, I’m old enough to remember when you had to have a “church key” to open them…these say “Tab Top” on them. I’m guessing from the 80’s, maybe 70’s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_pack_rings
and this story totally destroys the liberal claim that a beer can lasts hundreds and hundreds of years in the ocean.
@menderman chrissakes, there is a wiki for six pack rings….
Dang, the wiki says they (the rings) were invented in 1960…older than my memory suggests. I recall getting beer in cardboard boxes in the late 60’s, when I came of (almost) age. Pop tops were a new thing then, and completely came off the cans. We used to make chains out of them. I don’t recall exactly when they changed to staying attached to the can, late 70’s sounds about right.
Wiki has pages on everything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_penis
Believe it or not, there’s a site that addresses our mystery cans:
http://www.rustycans.com/COLLECTING/howold.html
@Menderman: gives a whole new meaning to “dog clutch”
I was born in the early 60’s, and remember carrying in the groceries as a new double digit aged human, and they were in cardboard, maybe Wisconsin got them early?
I was of driving age in the late 70’s and carried a oil spout in the trunk. Hard to believe we needed those huh?
Can a millennial even add oil to their own car today? I’ll bet 90% don’t know how to do it.
I’d say they’re about 10 to 15 years old. I once found a Rheingold Beer can in a ceiling while renovating a building in NYC. I gave it to my friend, a collector. He said it was from the mid fifties and was thrilled with the find. It was made of tin and opened with a can opener.
Can’t wait to see a little Budweiser wagon being pulled by Clydesdale Carp in their next ad…
Moe, they are at least twice that old.
I would guess they are from 1972.
My beer is Reingold, the dry beer.
Loco B S. You may be right Bro I was just guessing. . But I don’t remember the plastic holders in the 70’s. Then again, I don’t remember where I left my drink right now, and I’m afraid to ask the wife. I’ll just casually make another one and hope my casualness goes undetected.
If the pull tabs weren’t used until early 1960s, obviously NOT 60 years old since we are only 56 years from 1960.
In the pool scenes in The Graduate 1967, Ben is drinking Olympia beer in the pool. It has the two holes of a “church key” opener so, the pull tabs weren’t universally used even at that point in time.
Anybody else here that had a 7 foot by 4 foot beer pull tab curtain in their drinking fort in the 9th grade? (1970s)
I’ve found old Coors cans in the woods around my house that were opened with a can opener. The remarkable thing about that is that back when they used that type of can, and up until just a few years ago, is that it was illegal in this state to possess Coors beer. The fine was over a hundred dollars per can. Razorback revenuers.
Looks like a “5 pack”. Did they drink one?
According to the site listed below, pull tabs went into major distribution in 1965. The site also says that, since pull tabs recently passed 50 years of existence, they can be considered historic artifacts.
http://westerndigs.org/ring-tab-beer-cans-are-now-officially-historic-artifacts/