Tuesday, August 14, 2012

A Tour of My Collection

I still have around fifty cans that haven't been "processed" yet (meaning they haven't been added to the website or shelved/boxed with my other cans), but this is my collection as of today.

This is shelf #1.  It starts with 7Up and alphabetically goes thru some of the major brands thru Hi-C.

Note: the spaces have been left intentionally to allow for new cans to be added without having to shift other brands around.










This is shelf #2.  It starts with Hires root beer and goes thru some of the major brands thru the Walmart line of sodas.













Shelf #3 contains Sprite, Pepsi, Mountain Dew and Shasta.














Shelf #4 holds my Coke cans and short 8oz cans.















And these are two additional shelves. 

The gray ones on the left hold the soda brands that don't fit on shelves #1-4.  They are organized alphabetically in the trays.  The bottom shelf has six trays of foreign cans.

The black shelf on the right holds my large 16 oz cans, slim 8 oz cans and any other odd-sized cans.  This is where most of my energy and juice cans are.  I also have some 12-packs of soda on this shelf.

The boxes on the floor are cans I haven't added to the trays yet.




And now for the two overall shots of my collection:

Shelves #1 and #2

Shelves #3 and #4 and more

What I don't have pictured are my can sets such as the 7UP Bicentennial 50-can set, the 24-can Star Wars Pepsi set or the two 1970's RC sets of baseball player cans.

4 comments:

  1. Very nice collection :) And very nice blog. I come here everyday to check out new posts. :D

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  2. The collection has become a LOT bigger than I originally intended. And since there's no end to the stories/news about cans, I'll keep trying to post at least once a week. Thanks for visiting the site!

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  3. Hi There, Very nice collection. I'm 52 years old and just started up collecting soda cans soda bottle paper label pre. 1980. And aluminum soda bottles. I wanted to keep it down to a collectable collection and not to big, I'm running out of room now with my smaller shelves, I need to do wall shelves now. I have about 300 plus cans now 150 aluminum bottles and 40 paper label bottles. I'm in So Cal and looking for a few people to trade with I have some traders, There not perfect but in good condition. So if there's anyone out by me in So Cal Los Angeles, Ca. area email me at mark_perez323@yahoo.com Thanks Mark

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  4. Hi There, Mark again, collecting soda cans. I forgot to mention I started collecting Beer Cans, Bottles, Trays, Coolers, Signs and everything beer. I was 9 years old in 1970 and started my collection. When I first started collecting I had some old timers that brought me some old and new beer cans to get started. Growing up my dad and family would take a different way on vacation every year to Indiana and Ohio to visit family, So I would hit the local stores and the shops there telling my dad I don't have that one. And hit all kinds of shops or the hotel woods to find more beer cans. Well by mid 80's I had over 7,500 beer cans 2,300 beer bottles and tons of signs coolers trays and a bunch of small stuff. I sold everything off in the late 90's. So no more beer collection just soda now. Thanks Mark

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