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I started collecting beer cans the summer of 1975 when I was only 8 years old! During my childhood, I would visit a cousin in West Virginia. We would play in the coal mines and shale piles and go home looking like miners. We didn't know at the time that beer can collecting would be a "thing" but started having a friendly (almost) competition who could collect the most different beer cans on the way home. Back in 1975 there were plenty of old cans in the mining areas, exposed dumps along our route and litter along the roads. We didn't pick up any of those funny looking cans (cone tops) because they didn't stack well. I don't remember brands, but I can remember 100's of them in dumps and mining trash areas. Wish I could go back in time. After a few summers of this ritual we both accumulated a few hundred cans... Several years passed (maybe 1978) and our cans collected dust in the attic of his West Virginia home. Now the beer can collecting craze started to take off in my home town..

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