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joe at travelpage
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posted 04-05-2012 08:38 PM

Ok, most of us on this site seem to appreciate artifacts of historical significance.

Well, today I am visiting my 80-year old mom and helping bring up some boxes from her basement when I noticed the following item on a shelf in the back:

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It turns out this is it my family's very own "Holy Can-O-Chicken of Antioch".

According to my mom, it was purchased over 40 years ago - before we left for an overseas assignment in either Italy or Brazil.

Since at the time you couldn't easly get American food abroad at, my father apparently decided to bring a few cans of whole chicken along for the duration.

I first remember seeing this Can-O-Chicken on a shelf in the basement of my parents house in the early '70s after we had returned from Brazil. Over the years I caught glimpses of it when helping move things into or out of my parent's basement.

My kids had heard about, but were skeptical that it even existed - until today when my son finally came face to face with what might possibly be the oldest Can-O-Chicken in existence.

When you hold the can it seems completely full. There are no leaks and when you shake it, you can feel the chicken sloshing about in whatever liquid it has been floating in for almost half of a century.

I am still trying to figure out what to do with this most personal historical artifact (...which I am sure has traveled by ocean liner / passenger-cargo ship at least three times) but I was wondering if anyone else had any "special" family collectable such as this?

Joe at TravelPage.com

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Johan
First Class Passenger
Member # 4458

posted 04-06-2012 03:13 PM

This is quite social history!

My parents inherited "Sunlight soap" hoarded by my grandmother during the Korean War...

The same soaps hoarded by my maternal grandparents during this war was lost in a house move in the late 1970's...

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lasuvidaboy
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Member # 4527

posted 04-07-2012 03:36 PM

My grandparents had the same bottle of Sloan's Liniment in their medicine cabinet for decades. My grandmother told me she bought it NYC in 1952 for my grandfather's sore shoulder just before they were going to Europe. They flew to London on BOAC and returned to the States on the new ss United States late in the summer so that bottle had quite a few miles on it. The bottle was around until the mid- 1980s when it was accidentally tossed out. I remember my grandmother rubbing some on me in the late 1970s and it still worked!

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linerguy
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Member # 4289

posted 04-09-2012 03:16 PM

In my grandparent's basement there was a metal cabinet completely filled with hundreds of cans of canned salmon. Apparently anytime the dreaded stuff would go on sale, my grandfather would stock up....he died before he got around to even putting a dent in the supply.

He was so cheap he would keep old, used toothpicks on the arm of a lawn chair on his front porch...they were held down by hundreds of rotted rubber bands he saved from the daily newspaper.

-Russ

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timb
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posted 04-09-2012 04:25 PM

It might seem odd to us but when you realize they grew up in a time when things like sugar and butter were rationed it makes makes more sense

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desirod7
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Member # 1626

posted 07-11-2012 06:34 PM

quote:
Originally posted by linerguy:

He was so cheap he would keep old, used toothpicks on the arm of a lawn chair on his front porch...they were held down by hundreds of rotted rubber bands he saved from the daily newspaper.
-Russ
[ 04-09-2012: Message edited by: linerguy ]

IMO, that is part of the obsessive-compulsive spectrum

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sympatico
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Member # 797

posted 07-14-2012 12:27 PM

I still have 2 bars of Sunlight soap, in fact used one the other day. The other one is still in the wrapper.

My neighbour sent each of her 5 kids off to University over 30 years ago with a small wash board and 2 bars of Sunlight.

Oh how I wish I had a bottle of Sloans Linament. Best stuff ever for aching muscles/joints and I could sure use one right now.

JOE - are you going to open the Can-O-Chicken?

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linerguy
First Class Passenger
Member # 4289

posted 07-23-2012 12:46 PM

IMO, that is part of the obsessive-compulsive spectrum

Nah, he was just a cheap old man.

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