http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc489/Marisa_Neuman/image.jpg3.jpg http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc489/Marisa_Neuman/image.jpg2.jpg A friend gave me some goodies today and this carton was one of them. Anyone know if the actually put beer in there?
They were used as throw-away "growler" for take-out draft beer, so it was a bar not the brewery that filled it. See my page on Cardboard Containers Used for Draught Beer To Go (bottom of page has a few other examples of these fold-in top "milk" type units from Pabst and Pearl). In NJ where they were commonly just called "containers", into the 1970s, bars routinely sold them during the days or hours it was illegal to sell "package goods". They were later replaced with plastic (think deli potato salad containers) but thankfully the laws were changed before they got popular. In NY State, when they initiated mandatory bottle deposits in the mid-1980s, Anheuser Busch tried to encourage bars that didn't want to mess with accepting empties to use those waxed cardboard "milk" cartons for take-out beer, as seen (top right) in this AB illustration of typical draught beer containers. Nice piece.
No problem, of course. With your permission, I've added your image to my (absolutely non-profit, educational ) website's page on Cardboard Growlers.
