Old Budweiser Can

Found an old Budweiser Can in Shop today from the early 80's. I found it funny that there are no idiot warnings on the can. Today they have to tell people that a Pivo (czech for beer) could be bad for you if your not smart enough to enjoy it responsibly. haha.

Was doing some repair work on the bathroom of the little house Mom and Dad bought post WWII. Mom still owns it as a rent house. Under the tub we found a brown paper sack with a Schlitz beer can in it. The can had a date of 1947 on it. I dont drink but I did save the can.

About 30 years ago I was helping a neighbor remove a seed cleaner from a local elevator due to be torn down. In the crawl space I found an old beer bottle, no label, but molded into the bottle was "Furniture City Brewing, Grand Rapids, Michigan". I still have it and always wondered how long it had been there. The elevtor was built in the late 1800's.

Looks like Furniture Brewing was only in business for a few years before Prohibition shut it down.
Furniture Brewing

I put an addition on this place about 4 years ago now. In the new bathroom I stashed a couple of empty Pale Ale bottles behind the sheetrock on the header above the door. Might be a while before someone finds it but find it they will.
There is also a used cellphone in the insulation behind the kitchen stove.

Found several layers of newspaper dating from the early 50's to the early 60's under the carpet in my great Uncles house being used as padding/insulation. Although we had been completely through the house from top to bottom, or so I thought, we never thought to rip up the carpet looking for "buried treasure". Unfortunately I didn't find it until after the local VFD burned the place for practice but I did get lucky to find an area about 6x8 that didn't get burned or soaked. How that happened I haven't a clue but it allowed me to get some nice examples of 'how things really were' in the world at the time.

It never ceases to amaze me the kinds of stuff I've read in the pieces I've got. There's everything from a mid 50's article talking about how all our jobs are going overseas and the trouble it's causing to one from the 60's telling where Kennedy had just signed a paper that made the order of succesion to the Presidency more sure in case the President was incapacitated. Don't remember the exact date of the paper but wasn't long after that that he was shot. On top of all of that historic info I love to just look at the adds for the brand new '55 Chevrolets, the new Packards, Fords, Nash's, etc. Still makes me sick that about 1/4 of a full/double page ad showing the complete lineup of the 55's got burned.

not to hijack the topic, but whats a 1950s coke machine worth? bottles not cans. could work if the rite fella restored it. seen on a tv show, american restorationstv had like 6 of em! thanks