Here's my "funky" light for John Scalzi's Monday Photo Shoot.
My grandfather used to own and operate a blue-collar factory bar way, way back in the days before, during, and after the Great Depression, and after he'd passed away, he left us with a mountain of old beer signs and lights and other bar stuff. I'm not exactly sure how old this Schlitz beer light is, but it's always been one of my favorite things. I just like the look of it and the fact that there's a huge star showing everyone exactly where Milwaukee is.
It's not the oldest thing in the collection, however. There are some really ancient Pabst Blue Ribbon, Miller, Blatz and god knows what other crappy beer up in lights. Some of them work fine, and others are an absolute fire-hazard. For example, I plugged the Pabst choo-choo train light in a while back and the little locomotive wiggled a bit before I started to hear buzzing and saw hypnotizing blue arcs of light coming from the plug. Fun stuff.
Oh well... If nothing else, it's a pretty light and a little slice of Milwaukee's beer-making history. Plus, it was a lot easier taking a picture of this light than it was trying to snap a picture of the wickedly bright, red, jewel light on my Fender Twin Amplifier.
-DP
ReplyDeleteI love your beer light. I have had one too many Schlitz in my day ... me no drink beer anymore, but for a split second (omg) I could feel it and so not only does this show light shining, should one wish to partake, their own light would come on from the inside out; if my memory serves me correctly. First time I ever bought beer, it was a bumper of Schlitz. (and I might add I was underage at the time - bad glenda, bad bad bad!!) tee hee.
Hey, my grandfather owned a blue-collar bar, too. He also ran the VFW. Unfortunately, he passed teh business down so I ended up bartending for freakin' YEARS. The lights were cool though. Great photos. You must be enjoying that new camera.--Cin
ReplyDeleteVery very cool! Your Milwaukee pride is awesome too!
ReplyDeletebe well,
Dawn
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