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The Dead Thread: Yep. Still Dead.

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Killing time in work found this,

1973 was the last year that Rheingold sponsored the Mets, for it was in 1973 that they closed their large Bushwick, Brooklyn brewery. Rheingold could no longer compete with the national Breweries of Anheiser Busch, Schlitz or Miller.

Although they did remain in business through 1976 when they closed their last location in South Orange, New Jersey.

Starting in 1974 Schafer became the official beer of the Mets "the one beer to have when you're having more than one" in the Schafer circle of sports!
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http://www.centerfieldmaz.com/2015/04/remembering-rheingold-beer-its-mets.html
 
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goldy_331 said:
If she was 18 in 1952 she'd be about 82 now, but if that's what you're into....
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Time Travel assumed.

1955's not bad, either.

Hey, Millenials. Your grandmas called. They said, "JFC, put some nice clothes on and do something about your hair, you slobs."
 
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Kepler said:
No, but I didn't ride a subway until I was 18.

I remember: "My beer is Rheingold, the dry beer. Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer."

And: "Piels' Real Draft, the kind of beer you first loved."

And of course: "Shaefer is the one beer to have when you're having more than one."

And: "If a gentleman gives a Tiparillo to a lady..."

And I remember the Avengers was on right before the Mets, so I always associate the end theme from the Avengers with excitement, and not just for Mrs. Peel.
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Erik cigars - with the cool dude in the Viking ship sailing up the East River

cigars, cigarettes, Tiparillos..

And the incomparable Edie Adams for Muriel cigars
 
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FreshFish said:
"Hamms, the land of sky blue wa aa ters (BOOM boom boom boom)"

either https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o83xxWCel8g or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yHsoW6CTjM ... I can find the links but cannot click on them while in the office....



For some reason memories of my youth in Chicago call to mind Old Pio....all I had to do was make a tangential reference and he'd be off with a cool story.

RIP Jerry.
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Hamm's was St. Paul brewed, the Hamm family was quite powerful around here back in the day. You can still find it around, but it's not that popular. In fact, I've never actually had one.
 
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"Matt's. Our one brewery ensures... consistency."

I always thought that was the most honest ad I'd ever heard. "You know what we are, we know what we are. Our only promise is it'll always be... that."

When I was at Stanford in the late 80s Hamm's, of all things, was the beer of choice at keggers. Maybe one of the scum-sucking undergrads was the heir to the Hamm fortune or something. It would have been like getting Coors at Cornell functions.

The cheapest beer I ever had was Blatz, which was sold for $1.89 a six pack at a gas station in Ithaca, which included 5 cent bottle refunds driving the price to a very nice $1.59, i.e., 30 cents a beer. I was blown away to find years later in the midwest that Blatz not only was, like, a real thing, but actually one that some people thought at least middlingly of.

Personally I always thought the stained glass label was gorgeous.

Sadly, I have never heard the Blatz jingle.
 
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FreshFish said:
"Hamms, the land of sky blue wa aa ters (BOOM boom boom boom)"

either https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o83xxWCel8g or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yHsoW6CTjM ... I can find the links but cannot click on them while in the office....



For some reason memories of my youth in Chicago call to mind Old Pio....all I had to do was make a tangential reference and he'd be off with a cool story.

RIP Jerry.
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Most of my correspondence with Old Pio was completely tangential. Often going on for hours. Indeed, RIP.
 
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Sniped.

Not to speculate, but I wouldn't rule out CTE with some of these guys.
 
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