> Blatz? I haven't heard that name since I was a kid!
> What other beer names . . . wait, this is not Friday. Oh heck, I'll
> throw caution to the winds . . . what other beer names have been
> subsumed over the last several decades? Here are a few that I recall
> my
> dad drinking: Schlitz, Hamms, & Burgy.

in the very old old days, way before VANAGONS, back when vw buses were
split-windows,
we used to go along the beach roads and pick up the discarded beer
bottles and turn 'em in to the
grocery stores for like $0.02 each. made us money to buy more beer! :)
course, we don't do that anymore,
cause (a) they put out aluminum cans nowadays, and (b) i drive a
Vanagon, and don't want to lose it to a DUI ticket. :)

but i recall Jax beer as one of the more common bottles to find,
possibly it was the cheapest. this was back in the late 1940's and
early 1950's, along the NW florida coasts around Panama City Beach and
westward.
also Falstaff. don't see that anymore. how about Pabst Blue Ribbon?
that was a big seller back then. used to sponser some of the friday
night boxing shows on television.
and Carling's Black Label ... another big seller.

for those beer drinkers amongst you, who want to decorate their
VANAGON (or EUROVAN or whatever),
you might want some old beer label trays ...those round little trays
the looked-good-in-the-dim-light waitresses used to bring the beer to
your table on. there's actually a place that sells those trays ...
(drum roll) ...
http://home1.gte.net/tjhoff/btfs.html

wonder if we could get some small home-brewery to produce labels for
Vanagon Bier?? :)
or maybe Westfalia Bier ... might be some legal problems there since
there is a huge dairy machinery company by that name.

unca joel