Thursday’s ad is for Molson, from — I’m just guessing — the 1960s or 70s. I love the tray, and that ad copy. “Thirsting for the best of Canada? Make sure it’s Molson.”
Jay R. Brooks on Beer
Jay R. Brooks on Beer
Thursday’s ad is for Molson, from — I’m just guessing — the 1960s or 70s. I love the tray, and that ad copy. “Thirsting for the best of Canada? Make sure it’s Molson.”
Based on the white font, I’d guess the 70’s. The grocery store where I worked in DC suburbs 71-78 sold that brew (which later got renamed “Molson Export”). I became partial to ales after I got my first tastes of it, Ballantine’s, & Carling Red Cap, but drank them rarely for $$ reasons.
I visited the brewery in 1986 when in Toronto, but no tours were available the day I stopped in – still have a pair of tulip glasses I bought there. After Molson, I rode a streetcar to the long-gone Jarry Park (the Blue Jays’ park before the domed place where Jose Canseco banged a top floor suite window). Bonus was that the NHL HOF was nearby (but in the midst of a re-model), so I hit it before the ball game.
Final note: got my 1st taste of Brador (which I’d never seen in the US) on Montreal in ’85 – in those days, it was an uber “malt liquor”; today, we’d most likely dis it.