Hamms Beer Sigh

Miller engineering.        https://www.microstru.com/Coming-soon.html

And Lionel MPC also made a nice Hamm's reefer:

Or this one:

I remember drinking Hamm's in the early seventies. Not a bad beer for its time, though Stroh's was better!

Back in the mid/late 70s, a local radio station ran spoofs of the Hamm's Beer bear commercials - for Bear Whiz Beer - "it's in the water".  Probably get sued for doing a spoof like that today.

Remember trying it once in college.  The key word being "once".

But still happy to see the sign being made.

Didn't Hamm's TV commercials in the 1960 sort of have a Native American theme to it? I remember the Tom-Tom's and the voices with a Native American dialect.  Was the brewery in Washington State?

You have a good memory Chuck....

A Hamm’s Beer sigh is much better than an Iron City Light belch!

Jon  

Chris Lonero posted:

Miller engineering.        https://www.microstru.com/Coming-soon.html

Cool, thanks Chris & Miller Engineering.

Wish it was Old Milwaukee.

KOOLjock1 posted:

A Hamm’s Beer sigh is much better than an Iron City Light belch!

Jon  

Glad somebody else caught that. I love typos, even my own.

But beer? Not so much. It's all....beer.

Chuck Sartor posted:

Didn't Hamm's TV commercials in the 1960 sort of have a Native American theme to it? I remember the Tom-Tom's and the voices with a Native American dialect.  Was the brewery in Washington State?

The land of sky blue waters was a slogan for Minnesota - the first brewery was in St. Paul in 1860. Then San Francisco in 1953.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamm%27s_Brewery

Hamms beer and Swingline staplers but no John Deere??  This is an outrage!

Gentlemen:  I like the Hamm's car.  I don't understand why so few breweries don't (cheaply) sell advertising rights to the train manufacturers or people like Chris Miller for his great signs.  There are a lot of guys, with a lot of trains, that would be more than interested.  It's not like you're putting out a short tee wee ad, that is soon gone and forgotten.  Gotta be dozens and dozens of brands that our guys would love to see on a train car.  That free advertising would last forever.

My existing favorites are mostly from Founders (Michigan).  They make the most flavorful stouts, porters, and ales available.  The best beer I ever tasted was Watney's Cream Stout, from England, by appointment to Queen Elizabeth II.  A fantastic roasted malt flavor.  They no longer make it,  and my friends and I probably drank every last one in the USA.  

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On another track, so to speak, imagine how popular a Jack Daniel's car would be...

Maybe I'm just too dumb to get it.  All comments referring to why so many popular beverages are not available to train manufacturers are encouraged.

Jerry

I would like to see Miller do this one...

Mill City posted:

I would like to see Miller do this one...

I asked him about the grain belt sign, but he said he could not obtain the permission to do it. Like jerryg, I wonder why.

RoyBoy posted

I asked him about the grain belt sign, but he said he could not obtain the permission to do it. Like jerryg, I wonder why.

Gaining rights may be complicated involving more than a single party. Lifted from Wikipedia:

Sign on Nicollet Island[edit]

Grain Belt Beer Sign
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Nicollet Island
Nearest city	Minneapolis
Coordinates	44°59′10″N 93°15′48″W
Built	1941
NRHP reference #	16000511
Added to NRHP	August 4, 2016

In 1941, a 48-foot-high sign with the Grain Belt logo, illuminated by a mix of neon tubes and incandescent bulbs, was placed on the roof of the Marigold Ballroom in downtown Minneapolis. In 1950, the sign was moved to Nicollet Island, next to the Hennepin Avenue Bridge, and an illuminated green frame added around the logo. The sign sits on Nicollet Island, an island in the Mississippi, and is part of the Saint Anthony Falls Historic District. The sign was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.^[10]

The sign's illumination failed sometime after 1966; it was restored in 1989 and the sign lit intermittently until 1996.^[10][11] On December 30, 2017, the sign was again relit following a 15-year restoration campaign and the replacement of all the neon tubes and incandescent bulbs with LEDs

Marigold Ballroom location. Photo taken in the midst of facelift.