I couldn't come up with any better "data", so my less-than-empirical observation: I was born in 1955, and I remember crown caps with cork liners from my childhood, as well, probably at least into the early 1960s. I remember "we" (i.e., my "homies" -- or hooligans as we were probably better known -- and me) used to pry the cork out of the caps, for no good reason that I can recall at this temporal distance, when we would go to Doc James' store down the road in the afternoons. When that stopped I can't begin to guess, but, if my memories are accurate (given my otherwise sieve-like brain . . .), the cut-off date has to be more than 5 years after 1955, maybe even closer to 1965.
Ahh, the existential angst of the archaeologist: I have a colleague who says he will retire permanently when he finds his own childhood in a test pit. Given the interplay of legality and his age, that could be any day now.
Jeff
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY on behalf of Ron May
Sent: Sat 10/29/2005 10:15 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Crown Caps
Some of these crown cap answers seem to conflict with my childhood memories.
When in elementary school (approximately 1958), kids used to collect bottle
caps to flick in the air (snapped fingers sent the cap flying like a Frisbee
today). The top flickers sent the caps the furthest or closest to lines drawn
in the sand. I recall experimenting by putting pennies in wax to lend weight
to the flick. Those caps at that time were cork. At that time, my family
engaged in hotelier work and the bottle caps with foil were mixers and tonics
from the bar. Maybe I was just observing the transition point in technology. In
truth, I don't think I ever gave bottle caps much thought after 1959. This
would place west coast bottle caps with cork liners a tad later than the 1955
rule.
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
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