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Several years went by and I graduated high school and went away to college. My parents were very happy that I went to college. Several years earlier I had said that I wanted to be a beer truck driver since they got the best of the new beer signs! Of course the collection was much too large to take with me to college so it got left at home in my parents' basement. As college went on, the desire to collect beer cans faded as the desire to drink beer grew. One of my drinking buddies who was a reporter for the school paper did a story on my collection, but that wasn't enough to keep the desire to collect cans alive. Soon my collection languished on the shelves in my parent's basement while I went on finding out about the joys of the working world and real life. With the advent of the personal computer, the desire to learn about and use computers took over where the beer cans and breweriana left off. I spent lots of years working with computers which led to making a living from working with them. I still enjoyed good beer (not the National Mega-Swill beers) which back then was mostly imported beer. During the height of the recession in the early 1990's I needed some money and I tried selling my collection, but no-one wanted to buy it back then...It seemed to me like no-one really cared about things like that when jobs and money were tight. So my collection still languished in my parents basement. Fast-forward several years to 1996. That is when my girlfriend and I discovered the joys of Homebrewing. Soon that became my newest obsession. But that new hobby sparked something that started to bring back the love of Breweriana and all things beer related. We started to go to flea markets (when we weren't brewing) and I started buying bottle openers and then trays and then bottles and finally anything that was old and beer-related. The flea markets led to antique stores and so on. In the summer of 1996 I discovered eBay and I started finding many wonderful pieces of Breweriana to buy. It was a natural for me since I had been using the Internet since 1994 (I was a partner in an ISP from 1995 to 1997) and was fully comfortable with doing business on the 'Net. I started selling in January of 1997(as thebeerhunter) to help fund my Michigan collection. |
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It very soon got to the point where I had to decide (like most serious collectors) what to specialize in or else we were going to be buried in Breweriana. That is when I decided to concentrate on collecting Michigan Breweriana. With that focus in mind I have now embarked on trying to share my collection and the collections of other contributors with the world. Whew! I did not expect to write this much when I sat down to do a page about me, but I got on a roll. Hopefully if you made it this far I didn't bore you too much with that little twisted series of snapshots of my breweriana collecting history. But now that it's out of the way I can concentrate on the important things...like adding more breweriana to the site! Cheers! Prosit! Enjoy! G.B 2/6/99 |
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