Olde Frothingslosh Pale Stale Ale

Well, there's a flashback - I still have a Bulletin with the card car sides attached - should dig it out. Olde Frothingsloshe was quite a thing in the Whit Towers days, wasn't it?

The pale ale with the foam on the bottom!

Another flashback to college days in The Burg!

Curt

Cool, Thank you, oddly enough I had been strangely interested these and now you have enabled me to be able do something constructive maybe.

in 12-54 ( according to the date on the car ) Lionel built a Pittsburgh Brewing Company car with the " Old Frothingslosh " logo and a picture of the upside down beer drinker with a right side up beer stein.

I bought the car for my wife last May from Pats Trains

HCLARK6345,

Are you sure it was Lionel and not MTH? Your description sounds like a #30-78016 MTH Rail King reefer.

jim sutter posted:

HCLARK6345,

Are you sure it was Lionel and not MTH? Your description sounds like a #30-78016 MTH Rail King reefer.

Here’s a photo of the MTH car Jimmy mentioned which was made in 2006 and also a photo of another MTH Olde Frothingslosh car made in 2012.

Bill

Jim

You are right. I turned the car over and there is a big MTH stamped in the bottom.

Bill

Without trying to find out where I stashed the box,  the car looks exactly like the picture of the car you show with the $ 100 price tag on it.

Guess I'll have to take up drinking.

I had two roommates in college (77-82) who were big collectors of beer cans.  They would empty the cans from the bottom.  This was my introduction to Olde Frothingslosh.  Pretty ladies () on the can, but a terrible tasting beer!

Jim

I still have three Olde Frothingslosh beer cans from the collecting days in the late sixties.  Three different colors.  One still has the pull tab in it.  Cool...   The writing is hilarious on them.  If I remember correctly the model's name is Fatima Yechburg.  I had them down about a year ago for some reason.  Great beer can, not so sure about the contents.

I have been thinking of enlarging the cardboard sides and making a Standard gauge  box car.  It would be different.

As I recall, KDKA am had the Rege Cordic show (late 50's) which was enjoyable and zany. One of their skits and/or commercial involved the Old Frothingslosh beer with the foam on the bottom. Somehow I think this is where/how the beer was started and Iron City beer commercialized the concept.

Redonionite posted:

As I recall, KDKA am had the Rege Cordic show (late 50's) which was enjoyable and zany. One of their skits and/or commercial involved the Old Frothingslosh beer with the foam on the bottom. Somehow I think this is where/how the beer was started and Iron City beer commercialized the concept.

And to keep this train related, Pittsburgh Railways even painted a streetcar for the Rege Cordic radio show on KDKA.

Bill

"The pale stale ale with the foam on the bottom."

MTH did that yellow foam-on-the-bottom scheme on one of their Premier 36' reefers in the 20-5609-1 GG-1 Express Beer Train Set.  I wish MTH would do some more Olde Frothingslosh Premier reefers.  Their wood-sided reefer offerings have been rather bland over the last few years.

Andy