“For sale today on eBay from our hometown — a beautiful Club Lager Beer Case from the old Sebewaing Brewery. Club Lager was one of the brands made until the end of the Brewery, about 1965, and this case held 24 “long-neck” 12 oz. bottles, the industry standard t
hen.
The cardboard case is VERY familiar, since there were hundreds of them floating around our town back then. We used them to hold all kinds of things, usually not beer!
I still have two (or three) that I carry around with my drums to hold sticks, music, etc., which I’ve had for (ahem) 40-plus years, sigh. This case is offered at an affordable $9.95 right now (bidding may make it go up in price) and it seems in good shape — I DO think shipping will add a modest sum, but it’s a dandy. It can be yours…”
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I guess I never realized it doesn’t say Sebewaing Brewing Company anywhere, except on the bottom. But back then, we all knew who made it… Here’s the bottom of the case for sale on eBay…
Still have my box sitting in the basement holding high school momentous
“luggage” for each of the kids when we visited relatives in the west. Still have some.
We also took those to the beach, as I recall.
If I remember right, seems you also stored barbie dolls and barbie clothes in them, Alice Pommerenke and Kay Armbruster. I have a Sebewaing Beer box, similar to the above one, that I store mementos in.
Hmmm, maybe the Historical Society or someone else could recreate them and sell them as Sebewaing souvenirs. They are incredibly useful around the house, as “older” locals know…
Lynn Jahr, you are so right! I forgot about that!
Club was re-labeled Sebewaing Beer (the blue label) repackaged for a Moose or Elk Lodge club in Mount Pleasant. Using the original large floor stapling machine that was at the brewery, I stapled close to 500 of these Club boxes during the summer of 1983. The boxes were assembled at the Fish House that was the workshop for my Grandfather Otto Thede who passed away in the Fall of 1982. I was able to assemble a box in about 1-2 minutes and that staple machine was fast! The hardest part was folding the edges and finding room to store the empty assembled boxes.
mine has pictures and yearbooks in it.
Scott, I never knew what “Club” meant. That’s a great story. I can imagine them taking 50 cases or whatever to Mount Pleasant for a month’s use by the organization. Wouldn’t it be interesting to set up a fund-raiser by selling reproduction cases like these??
Scott M. Thede – the stapler is still at the fish house if you need it for the reproduction boxes.
Is the smaller staple machine there as well? Your mom said something about donating one or both to the museum.
A wonder how much reproduction boxes would cost to print and cut?
Thank you to Mark W. Rummel for this post and all of those who took the time to comment in Facebook.
William Harder posted this photo on November 15, 2014 in the Facebook Group “You know you are from Sebewaing, MI when …”. He said “Has anyone seen these before?”
