Need help identifying a vintage beer sign.

Can you post the poto? The image is not showing in the link (though problem may be my crappy workd PC).

 

I believe it is a sign for National Premium, made by Pabst. My clue was what looks like a Colt45 sign under it (also Pabst)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Brewing_Company

 

Clicky-pop for a supersize

 

Based on the (red) chevron behind the words National Beer, it looks like the 1960's version of National Bohemian Beer, also known as Natty Boh. Found this image on a can collector site.

 

I'm still looking for a gas pump.

 

I see what you're describing as a gas pump in the original black and white photo. But, I think the National Beer sign is actually a small rectangle sign mounted on a large round mirror reflecting the room. You can clearly see the hair on the guy chugging Seagram's reflected at the bottom left of the beer sign. Cool old photo, hope you can find more info.

 

Maybe a clock? similar to this one

 

I agree with it being a sign on a mirror.

 

Bingo!

You can also see a reflection of other things in the mirror.

The impression of there being a gas pump may be created by representation of a beer can with vertical red(?) stripes on the sides of the "can" and the reflections or by the distortions of the photo introduced by age/handling.

As you say its most likely a rectangular paste on to the mirror. From what I've seen in various shops where they are for sale, most of the surviving advertising bar mirrors put out by companies are often more ad than mirror. Also it looks as though some expense was spared in decorating the room itself because in the photo we also have a Colt 45 advertising sign, something on the wall next to the mirror that looks like it may be a Cutty Sark poster, and a small sign stuck up just below the mirror that tells us, "Its nice to be nice. Try it!"

 

Looks to me as a sub-brand of National Bohemia.

See the fine print on the coaster: http://www.breweriana.com/vmchk/oth...beer-to-call-your-own/flypage_images.tpl.html

 

The coaster says "The National Brewing Co. Balto. MD, also Phoenix, Miami,, Detroit". No "Bohemia " in the brewery company's name.

National's flagship brand was National Bohemian Beer, which they sometimes called just "National Beer" in ads and on other material. Here's an example from 1961 (so, a few years before they bought Carling's Phoenix brewery in 1966 - as noted on the coaster).​

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The strange thing was that even though the brand and brewery names was "National" (including their superpremium, National Premium), they concentrated on their home Maryland/Mid-Atlantic market for those two brands and continued to brew the original local brands at their other breweries (Regal in Miami, Altes in Detroit and A-1 in Arizona) as well as brewing their nationally-distributed malt liquor, Colt 45, in all their breweries. By the mid-60s, Cold 45 made up half their total yearly barrelage.

 

Hasn't anyone else noticed the guy drinking straight from the whiskey bottle? LOL