On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 12:27:29 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2014-06-09 10:37 AM, Pete C. wrote:
>>
>> Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 21:03:02 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> "John Kuthe" > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>> the little key operated openers to the huge pop top openers?
>>>>>
>>>>> I miss the key openers! That was one of my favorite parts!!
>>>>>
>>>>> John Kuthe...
>>>>
>>>> I never opened sardines but some other things like that. Ham? Spam?
>>>
>>> Coffee cans too. Those key opening cans disappeared some 50 years
>>> ago.
>>> http://preservationinpink.wordpress....ap-coffee-can/
>>> http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_kw=VINTAGE+COFFEE+CAN
>>
>> I'm just old enough to remember when pull tabs on soda/beer cans were
>> replaced with the flip tops...
>>
>
>
>I thought that you were my vintage. I remember pop cans needing a can
>opener. I am pretty sure that I also remember when pop cans were
>introduced. It used to always be sold in bottles. Doing a little
>research I gather that cans were first used in the mid 50s for
>distribution to troops overseas but Coke introduced canned pop in 1960.
>
>I have a faint recollection of cans with a conical top and screw cap,
>but I don't remember if that was used with pop cans or just for beer.

Those cans were all steel, they had a conical top that was capped with
the same cap used on bottles.
http://www.conetops.com/gallery.php