The "Bottle Opener" Years
cork seal in bottom of bottle cap
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Cantrell and Cochrane, Super Coola can
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Bottle openers were simple but essential tools, needed to open cork-lined crimped metal caps. Bottle caps were so ingrained in our lives that when someone finally decided to put soft drinks in cans, we still needed bottle openers!
Whatever you drank, and whether it came in cans or bottles, the jingles and advertising campaigns were with us whenever we listened to radio or watched television - that is, all the time. Am I the only one whose family included females who discussed the merits of the annual Miss Rheingold contestants? Evidently, sales of Rheingold tripled because of the contest. For the year of her reign, a winner would appear in TV and magazine ads, as she sailed, bowled, vacationed, hunted, rode on horseback, sunned at the seashore, and even was taught how to bunt by Casey Stengel. But she was never seen drinking beer!
1953 Miss Rheingold Finalists
Tippi Hedren did not win, but she did go on to star in 'The Birds.'
Later, she gave birth to Melanie Griffith, and still later
she became the grandmother of Dakota Johnson.
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