I remember the Church Key for beer and sodas. Then came the pull tab for beer. Teens loved to have long chains showing how many “beers” they had popped a top on.
Then the soda cans also had the pop top and you could not tell the difference between beer tabs and sodas.
My rememberances...
My uncle would buy beer, pull one out, then strike the end of the steel can with a Church Key several times to “settle” the foam. He then would also add salt to the drink. He and other family members could get falling down puking drunk on THREE 3.2 Oklahoma beers.
1966 Church key used for the Piza-Pop salesman at Chanute AFB.
1968 Church key used in flight crew lunches. When we recovered an aircraft, we would collect the uneaten lunches, church keys and P-38s. I still have a cigar box full of church keys.
1968 first aluminum tops on soda cans and pull tops.
1975 Coors Beer introduces a two hole press tab, till someone cut her finger and sued.
Animal rights people were worried fish were swallowing the flashy pull tabs, and were being killed so the current tab was invented.
I now drink unsweetened tea.
I thought the 2 hole press tab was near brilliant.
As a child when we’d go cross country camping it was the responsibility of the non-navigating son to open the beers while dad was driving.
I opened many between here and Canada, and some actually in Canada. It was easy to cut yourself on them, so maybe not near brilliant.