Here in south Jersey, I remember the "Montco" brand of sodas having the
solid tops as late as the mid 1970's- which meant those church keys were
still in demand by me then.
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>
To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: Churchkey
> On 22 May 2003 at 9:45, Dave Massey wrote:
>
> > Check out
> > http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-chu2.htm
>
> I respectfully disagree with, or at least question, the origin of
> "churchkey" (or "church key") as given in that website. I wouldn't
> have been paying much attention in 1951 but from my limited
> experience the term was applied because of the prevalence for opening
> beer or Coke (a.k.a. "Cocola") bottles at church picnics. Beer cans
> were possible then too, but the predominant use of the pointy end was
> to open oil cans.
>
> I remember back when softdrinks didn't come in cans, but I don't
> recall non-poptab softdrink cans. Seems to me that the invention of
> the poptab was what made the softdrink companies think they could
> sell the idea of cans to the public.
>
> --
> Jim Muller
> jimmuller@pop.rcn.com
> '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+
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