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Possum said:
From my googles the one Rainer seems to be worth about $150 and most seem to be in the 15-30 range but my Google-fu sucks.
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They are cool to have, but not worth the effort to sell, if it’s like anything in my life.
 
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Crash said:
Fourlofirst from OG pbb found this TAB can in a school attic that had been blocked off for 40yrs and sent it to me. The graffiti was "groovy" 🤣


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Tab tasted like a carbonated cleaning product :barf::barf:

Yeah, I remember when grocery stores had a basket in front of the registers for returned bottles too :homer:

GET OFF MY LAWN !! :flipoff2: :laughing:
 
SLOWPOKE693 said:
Blast from the past..... My mom uses to drink TAB soda when I was a kid. I can't even remember the last time I even thought about that stuff. :laughing:
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For a while we were staying at the TWA hotel at JFK. It's all done up in a pretty cool 60s-70s airline theme. At the bar there they were selling Tab and whiskey, or maybe jack and Tab, for $18/drink.
 
Anyone collect Oil Cans?

I saw a Riley Bros. can at the antique fair, didn't know they existed, it's a family name and I was intrigued. More of a Midwestern thing apparently so I'd never heard of it. I bought one for cheap on a lark, word got out, and for the next few birthdays/Christmases I got Riley Bros. stuff. Now I've got a real vintage sign, various shapes and kinds of lubricant cans, a couple that still have stuff in them, and even a 5 gallon Riley Bros. grease bucket. Anyone have any Riley Bros. cans they want to get rid of? Apparently I'm a collector. :laughing:
 
Lee said:
Anyone collect Oil Cans?

I saw a Riley Bros. can at the antique fair, didn't know they existed, it's a family name and I was intrigued.
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Actual oil cans?

I have a couple of the glass oil containers with the screw on spouts. They were made by either Ball, or Mason, I’ll have to pull them out.
 
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smurfblue40 said:
Actual oil cans?

I have a couple of the glass oil containers with the screw on spouts. They were made by either Ball, or Mason, I’ll have to pull them out.
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Sorry I guess I hijacked this thread a little.

Random google image, but I've got a few similar. Would like to find a windmill oil or a castor machine oil can. I've seen newer (I think) cans that are green and white or red and white, like Riley Bros 500 Motor Oil.

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For you puppies, here how yer dads got their oil...
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I'm going fishing tomorrow, maybe Wednesday I'll get pics of my stash.
If op don't mind the derail :laughing:
 
Clb said:
For you puppies, here how yer dads got their oil...
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I'm going fishing tomorrow, maybe Wednesday I'll get pics of my stash.
If op don't mind the derail :laughing:
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Planes still used canned oil. No idea why.
 
SoylentGreen said:
No, my "larger" older step-sister drank it too. Consumed that shit as if the weight was literally going to melt right off of her faster if she drank every drop they made.

Crazy is as crazy does.
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My mom was on a diet, it was on the calories counter tally on the wall
all these '1' 's as they drank them

40 years later, she is still doing the same shit
and I am the asshole for telling her to get off her ass if she wants something to actually happen :laughing:
 
All women pre teens and up drank the diet sodas.

My mother preffered Diet Pepsi but that sweetener made me sick so I drank TAB.

I always had a warm TAB and a cigarette. Probably drank four a day because I needed the energy. My mom didn't really allow me to eat much food but these sodas I was allowed.

I then switched to Diet Cokes until 1996 when I quit that addiction.

I tried a TAB about 10yrs ago and it was disgusting. :barf:
 
I have the oldest Monster bottle around. I have a 32oz Pepsi from the 70s that is still full and was even stored cold up until about 13 years ago. It sat at the top shelf inside the walk in cooler at my Aunt and Uncles country store.

I also have a whole collection of unusual pop bottles. Not standard Pepsi Coke kind of brands.

I have a few old beer cans too in perfect condition.

My Aunt would save any kind of special can or bottle that came through. Many of them are unopened.
 
I love to collect old beer cans being there was an old family clubhouse back behind my house and they are still abundantly laying right where they were tossed back in the late 50's early 60's. Cool conversational pieces.

Several popular beer companies experimented with aluminum early on. And then Prohibition squashed the distribution of beer all together soon after beer was being canned for sale until the late 30's or even 40's before distribution gained steam again. Then by the time the breweries got back to full swing, then come along WW2 and it sucked most of the aluminum out of the atmosphere until the late 40's early 50's before breweries could get their hands back on aluminum canning again. So your earliest beer cans to be found might be dated late 50's or early 60's.

I think unless you found a large collection of cans in great shape as a collection and then found a buyer, chances are your grandkids would be the ones to finally profit one day.

Similar note:
I found a dirty 4/5 quart Jack Daniels bottle dated 1958 last summer. I tried my best to clean it up with a tooth brush without spending all day and put it up on ebay for $25 "Buy it Now" and then lowered to $20 2 months later. It didn't sell for that. I then placed it in a bucket of water thinking it would eventually clean up by soaking it but I found out that once dirt sits in a clear glass bottle it's dirty forever. Come this spring I went to check on it and discovered the bottom popped off probably when weather was cold. So it went to the trash. I had nowhere to put it and couldn't even give it away.
 
det107 said:
Didn't the JD distillery go :rainbow:? I remember on videos whereas people were smashing their JD collections-
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I know JD is produced only in Lynchburg TN and the county is a dry county.:homer: But since it's "made on site" it can be "sold and drank on site".

I also know JD himself died from self infliction after getting blood poisoning from a hurt toe when he got mad and kicked a safe that he couldn't remember the combination to.:laughing:

And yes, Google said they had a gay parade in 2021 with drag queens from Ru Paul's drag race at the distillery that exposed children. But wasn't until 2 years later that they were called out for it.

So yet to add on to the :homer:... Children were allowed at a gay parade at a distillery in a dry county. So much :shaking: going on there...
 
I have 10 Squirt bottles in a 12-pack crate.
Some oil cans, probably from the 70's ( they have Litres on them) One of the quart cans is still full with 20-20W.
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