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HitTheTrail Member
Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 5455 | TRs | Pics Location: 509 |
In our ongoing effort to sort and downsize a life’s worth of stuff, we often come across old photos and memorabilia. Olympia Brewing was going through some tough times in the 1970’s and started selling low end Buckhorn as a way to improve market share. My wife and I had just started dating and it fit our budget perfectly. It also helped us identify with all the laid-off loggers and mill workers stuck in Ardenvoir. Buckhorn was their mainstay. Our recent finds include an old tee shirt and photo of her holding a can of Buckhorn on one or our car camping trips.
Buckhorn Beer Tee Shar with a Buckhorn Beer
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Ski ><((((°>
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Mon Nov 11, 2013 9:55 pm
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that was some seriously crappy beer, even when I used to drink beer.
I'll bet that t-shirt would fetch a handsome sum on an EBay auction!
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
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tmatlack Member
Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 2854 | TRs | Pics
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tmatlack
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Tue Nov 12, 2013 3:43 am
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HTT,
My friend and I collected beer cans back in the 70's in W. Indiana and I'm sure we found lots of Buckhorn cans. We didn't even consider it a rare find, if my feeble memory serves correctly...it was the '70's ya know.
Tom
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treeswarper Alleged Sockpuppet!
Joined: 25 Dec 2006 Posts: 11276 | TRs | Pics Location: Don't move here |
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treeswarper
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Tue Nov 12, 2013 8:23 am
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We were shocked at the prices at the Ardenvoir Tavern in the 70s. If you wanted a beer, it was a whole dollar for a can of Columbia. Probably the same for a Buckhorn.
What's especially fun about sock puppets is that you can make each one unique and individual, so that they each have special characters. And they don't have to be human––animals and aliens are great possibilities
What's especially fun about sock puppets is that you can make each one unique and individual, so that they each have special characters. And they don't have to be human––animals and aliens are great possibilities
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HitTheTrail Member
Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 5455 | TRs | Pics Location: 509 |
treeswarper wrote: | We were shocked at the prices at the Ardenvoir Tavern in the 70s. If you wanted a beer, it was a whole dollar for a can of Columbia. Probably the same for a Buckhorn. |
There was no draft beer at Ardenvoir, only bottles and cans. As I remember Buckhorn was the lowest price and was just slightly higher than a tall schooner down at the Log Cabin Tav in Entiat.
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Bedivere Why Do Witches Burn?
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Bedivere
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Tue Nov 12, 2013 11:22 am
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HTT - pretty cool! If you're interested in parting with that shirt, let me know.
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DIYSteve seeking hygge
Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 12655 | TRs | Pics Location: here now |
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Tue Nov 12, 2013 11:44 am
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Actually, I had successfully forgotten about Buckhorn beer. Hit's thread refreshed my memory of the foul swill. Thanks for nothin'
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HitTheTrail Member
Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 5455 | TRs | Pics Location: 509 |
Chainsaw_Willie wrote: | HTT - pretty cool! If you're interested in parting with that shirt, let me know. |
Willie- actually it turns out that was my wife's shirt. I doubt you have the funds to purchase it from us. We both had one and wore them a lot in the years before we got hitched. But, thanks for the interest.
BigSteve wrote: | Actually, I had successfully forgotten about Buckhorn beer. Hit's thread refreshed my memory of the foul swill. Thanks for nothin' |
My goodness, I always thought it tasted a lot like Oly and assumed it all came out of the same vat. Maybe the price influenced my taste buds back then.
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DIYSteve seeking hygge
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Tue Nov 12, 2013 12:10 pm
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HitTheTrail wrote: | I always thought it tasted a lot like Oly |
Wait, you say that as if it's a good thing
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HitTheTrail Member
Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 5455 | TRs | Pics Location: 509 |
BigSteve wrote: | Wait, you say that as if it's a good thing |
Question: How are drinking Oly beer and making love in a canoe similar?
Answer: Both are F**king near water.
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Schenk Off Leash Man
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Tue Nov 12, 2013 12:56 pm
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A little further East: Great Falls Select!
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Nature exists with a stark indifference to humans' situation.
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wolffie Member
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Tue Nov 12, 2013 3:08 pm
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In the late 60s, we paddled up a long, lonely, godforsaken trickle of a beaver stream in the Boundary Waters Wilderness in northern MN, following a long trail of floating Buckhorn Beer cans which terminated at an illegal fly-in hunters' camp, thoroughly trashed, compleat with stripped birch bark and initials carved in trees. I formed a bad first impression of Buckhorn drinkers, but I subsequently bought some 'cause it was the cheapest stuff in the store. A passerby stopped to mention, "...that's good beer!"
Bear Whiz Beer
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lookout bob WTA proponent.....
Joined: 12 Apr 2005 Posts: 3043 | TRs | Pics Location: wta work while in between lookouts |
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lookout bob
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Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:21 pm
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only ( used to) drink Buckhorn when Schlitz Malt Liquor or Blatz or Strohs was not available....
"Altitude is its own reward"
John Jerome ( from "On Mountains")
"Altitude is its own reward"
John Jerome ( from "On Mountains")
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tmatlack Member
Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 2854 | TRs | Pics
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Thu Nov 14, 2013 4:54 am
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Strohs is the nectar of the Gods!
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Lono Member
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Thu Nov 14, 2013 3:48 pm
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Ah, Rheinlander, in 12 pack little stubby bottles. It might have been 3.2-4.0 alcohol beer but you could drink a 12 pack in one night as a 19 year old. So I was told.
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