Anybody still have one of these old tools?

FLOLDFORD

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I found this laying on the shelf above the work bench tonight. A friend of mine gave it to me years ago
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only a few church keys around here.....note this handful we got out of a dumpster, many more hiding around
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Lets see...Hamms, Schmidt, Grain belt, Royal 58, Coors, Schlitz.....to name a few hanging on
 
(quoted from post at 20:21:16 03/08/18) I found this laying on the shelf above the work bench tonight. A friend of mine gave it to me years ago
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In it's (at least) 54 years of use, I wonder how many elbow exercises it has caused?
It is also unique in that it is [i:ead7ce5173]only[/i:ead7ce5173] a can opener.
 
Fehr is my wife's madden name, her brother has some Fehr beer stuff hanging on the wall. I got 6 or 8 church keys out in the garage and remember how to use them. The 60s GM cars had a built in bottle opener in the door latches, pretty handy option.
 
I have a bunch of them in a metal can somewhere ! They still show up out here now and then at yard sales and I buy them if possible.
 
Yup church key. Can remember at pickanicks they always had to have one of those for the juice cans. Some of the little old ladies thought us kids should have pineapple juice. They always bought the cheapest stuff they cound find. Always warm as all get out. I have tasted better drain cleaner. One hole all the way open and the air vent just a tiny puncture wound. Kids want Hawaiian punch or something. I carry a P-38 opener on my key chain.
 
OLDFORD,

That's pretty neat!

My husband has an old rusty opener hanging on our old rusty Regular.
 
I've got several of them lying around between the house and the shop. I've even got one of the ones that folds in the middle and had a magnet on it to hang on the door of the refrigerator to keep it close.
 
Part of old radio ad jingle from WHAS Louisville, KY "It's always Fehr weather when good friends get together"
 
How times change. A few years ago a bunch of us were hanging around at the motel after a day at the trade show, and I started handing out bottles of my home brew. Not one person there had a bottle opener or church key.

I tried the old college trick of hanging the cap over a hard edge and smacking it with my hand, but only succeeded in breaking the neck off the bottle.
 
not only the door handle option, but seat buckles use to have the hole big enough to pop a top with....just another of many ways to open a beverage with a car.
 
(quoted from post at 05:02:40 03/09/18) Yup church key. Can remember at pickanicks they always had to have one of those for the juice cans. Some of the little old ladies thought us kids should have pineapple juice. They always bought the cheapest stuff they cound find. Always warm as all get out. I have tasted better drain cleaner. One hole all the way open and the air vent just a tiny small puncture wound. Kids want Hawaiian punch or something. I carry a P-38 opener on my key chain.
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I also have a P-38 on my key ring, been there since I got it about 1963.

Dennis M. in W. Tenn.
 
We have a few around here similar to the one in the photo. My favorite was a little aluminum one about 1/4" thick and about 1 1/4" long. They wore out. Ed Will Oliver Bc
 
(quoted from post at 20:48:31 03/08/18) Fehr is my wife's madden name, her brother has some Fehr beer stuff hanging on the wall. I got 6 or 8 church keys out in the garage and remember how to use them. The 60s GM cars had a built in bottle opener in the door latches, pretty handy option.


I've had several 60's GM cars and trucks and never knew about a bottle opener. Was it really a bottle opener or just a place that worked to open a bottle?
 
I drove a beer truck in late 50s before pot tops. When we went to the brewery to get beer you got a box of openers for ever 100 cases of can beer you loaded. For Christmas the company would hand out some with plastic handles , had several around here but do not know where they went. The first pop tops were a wreck, had leaking cans , took awhile to get them perfected. Most folks do not know but the pop top is actually the bottom of the can when it goes thru the fill line.
 
Was at my warming shack with the Mrs. playing Yahtzee, and having a couple, I love having one once in a while!
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