Explosive Soda Pop Cans...

[WAYNO]

We've had some pretty high temperatures out West, and of course my Wife who's always thinking had me bring all the canned soda pop in the house from the garage so they wouldn't explode.

Got me thinking, as a kid I was at the local grocery store on a hot summer day when their soda pop began spontaneously exploding. That got me to thinking further, the brand that our local store sold, was Can-A-Pop. I've asked other people if they remember the brand, and of course they don't remember.

I googled it, and here's the proof!


In the same part of the store I remember a magical, illuminated sign for Olympia Beer, with a horseshoe and actual waterfall flowing thru it. 8)


This is the dumb stuff that occupies my memory bank, refusing room for much more important and recent stuff.

 

[sfhogman]

Memories...
Back in college my roomies and I had a Hamm's Beer sign, complete with animated waterfall and Hamm's bear...wish I still had it!

Jeff

 

[Kevin]

Hamms and Olympia had the absolute best Tv commercials.

 

[Dave P.]

Drifting your thread a bit... the bursting pop cans reminded me of a hockey trip
a few years ago. Non pressurized Cessna 210 and a large bag of Cheetos.
We decided to climb over a bit of cloud to avoid some icing and somewhere around 13,000 feet
heard a dull "pop" as the Cheetos bag failed.
A Cheetos bag contains an impressive amount of orange dust!
The customs guy in Canada was pretty amused. We were joking with him about
orange colored Cheetos flavored cocaine.
Dave

 

[Busterswoodshop]

I remember when Coke came out with the 16 ounce can.
It said " The big can for the lovers of Coke " on it.
I also remember it was all you could do to drink the whole can.
Now everyone walks around with 64 ounce cups in their hand all the time.

 

[Bob Wright]

One year after returning from vacation, I overlooked one can of either Seven-Up r Canada Dry ginger ale and left it in the trunk. Temps reached 100* or so. When I found the can the top and bottom were almost hemispherical, and the pull tab had ruptured spewing sticky coke juice around the trunk area!

Bob Wright

 

[Jeepnik]

Oly had to pull all of their commercials. Seems the anti-defamation league was threatening suit because the were stereotyping all Artesians as alcoholics.

Hamm's was forced to remove their advertising because peta accused them of abusing bears.

 

[DeletedMember275]

I remember growing up in Colorado, when we went 'up in the hills' for an outing, the bottled soda would sometimes 'explode,' because of the change in atmospheric pressure (or something)!

 

[eveled]

One time I had a can of seltzer explode in my hard saddle bag on my Harley.

Which isn’t that big of a surprise, the weird part is that it turned into snow! It must have burst as a liquid and flash froze into snow.

 

[RSIno1]

In the same part of the store I remember a magical, illuminated sign for Olympia Beer, with a horseshoe and actual waterfall flowing thru it. 8)

This is the dumb stuff that occupies my memory bank, refusing room for much more important and recent stuff.

My dad had one of those signs in our garage. My mom worked there during WWII while my dad was in basic at Ft Lewis. When he got out of basic they sent him by ship to Ft Richardson in Anchorage and they sent the wives there by the newly finished AlCan highway.

 

[jimd441]

Hamms and Olympia - thanks for the memories.

Jim

 

[wolfsong]

"Don't you know it's the water that makes it Olympia beer!"

"A beer is a beer is a beer is a beer - until you've tasted Hamms!"

Anyone remember Lucky Lager?

 

[Jeepnik]

"Don't you know it's the water that makes it Olympia beer!"

"A beer is a beer is a beer is a beer - until you've tasted Hamms!"

Anyone remember Lucky Lager?

Hamm's the beer refreshing, Hamm's

 

[blume357]

Reminds me of the first time I tried to brew some beer.... we had been given this big glass punch bowl as a wedding present and one of the bottles exploding sent a hunk of class clean through it.....

 

[graygun]

I remember Hamm's ads with the bear and "sky blue waters" lyrics as a kid in MD in the 50s/60s. Olympia wasn't sold there as far as I know.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o83xxWCel8g

 

[jgt]

My favorite were two animated Jax Beer commercials made when black and white tv was the only choice. One about a guy and his horse in a saloon, and the other about a bartender dealing with an old lady and a shapely young thing at the bar. I also enjoyed those What-a-burger commercials made just before the original owner died in a plane crash. "Please don't eat my What-a-burger!!!!" No one I know remembers them. I would love to find a place that could access them and play them for my wife.

 

[LDM]

I remember Hamm's ads with the bear and "sky blue waters" lyrics as a kid in MD in the 50s/60s. Olympia wasn't sold there as far as I know.

I remember the hue and cry that cartoon bears in a beer commercial were going to turn all children into alcoholics.The absentee parents that did the complaining are what cause children to become alcoholics.

 

[kramden]

I drove a delivery truck. Had a 12 pk. of Coke in the cab. In just the opposite vein it got very cold one night and in the morning I had an interior of my truck coated in frozen Coke.

 

[RSIno1]

......"A beer is a beer is a beer is a beer -........

Brew 102 was made right next to the trash ridden LA River. Miller Brewing was at the mouth of Azusa Canyon or as we called it Azusa Beach home of the yellow river. I knew a guy who worked at Miller they allowed employees to take home a case of beer a week. When our Shrine Club had a party they always gave us all the free beer we wanted.

 

[SEM]

"Don't you know it's the water that makes it Olympia beer!"

"A beer is a beer is a beer is a beer - until you've tasted Hamms!"

Anyone remember Lucky Lager?

I remember 5 year old me sneaking a sip from my dads beer in the evenings, Oly was my favorite, Hamms was ok Busch tasted like an old sock, every now and then he got a German brown beer, pretty much cured me of drinking at least until I was 13, 16 to 20 something Lucky Lager was it for me a 1.83 an hour brand of beer budget, Remember the game piece under the cap

 

[turd]

Not good memories of Olympia. Was pretty famous for giving you the sheets! :shock: