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Ah, thanks for the WP link! There's this picture at the end, titled "Opening a beer can with a "church key", 1963" and now it seems to me like before the "Ring Pull" cans, no tool-less opening mechanism did exist. People needed to bring their own tooling even for opening beer or soda cans. I wasn't aware of that… my beverage career started with Ring Pull and single-purpose, can-opener-less bottle openers :)
#RingPull #ChurchKey #TIL

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Spab Mar 5

This is also called a South Dakota Church Key fyi

#meme #memes #shitpost #seatbelt #drinking #alcohol #beer #drunkdriving #badadvice #churchkey #bottleopener

FreddyB Aviation Photography Jan 4

Interior bracing of an abandoned wash plant in the R-2508 Sidewinder Low Level Complex (Between Points D and E) Mojave Desert, June 2025 #R2508 #rust #can #churchkey #abandoned #decay #litter #mojave #washplant #cvvhrn #photography

FreddyB Aviation Photography Jan 4

Not the first person at this perch in the R-2508 Sidewinder Low Level (Between Points D and E) but the first in some time. Church key beverage can. Mojave Desert, June 2025 #R2508 #rust #can #churchkey #abandoned #decay #litter

Swede’s Photographs Jul 23, 2024

Good morning. 🍄🍄🍄

23 July 2024

I was thinking about the old beverage can pull tops that came completely off. Some people even collected them, though I don't know why. Well, you could hook them together and make a chain of some sort and use them as cheap decorations. That was a perfect way to show how classy they were. Kind of like displaying old whiskey bottles as pieces of art.

Anyway, getting back on track, then I recalled the really ancient when cans didn't have a pull tap and a person needed a church key to get in. The trick was to make a big hole on one side of the cans top and a smaller hole on the other side. For beer enthusiast a hole on the bottom was sometimes made.

"A church key or churchkey is a North American term for various kinds of bottle openers and can openers." - Wikipedia

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #nature #morning #mushroom #churchkey #canopener #cans

Mary Beth Frezon Jul 1, 2023

#TGIF folks. Found while rummaging for something else.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverwyck_Brewery

#churchkey #canopener #beverwyck

Beverwyck Brewery - Wikipedia

Leah Braemel 🇨🇦 🐱🐶🖋️Feb 14, 2023

What I learned today: that some people don't know what a churchkey is, or how to use one. (My mom asked her PSW to open a can of evaporated milk with one this morning. The PSW hadn't a clue what it was or how to use it.) #oldfashionedtools #churchkey #oldfashionedcanopener #oldfogey #whatIlearnedtoday 😜