Just For Openers Jan/2004 Issue #101 The E-22-8 Tivoli Lager at the right was an eBay purchase in 1999. A month before this one appeared, John Cartwright bought (he beat me out) one offered on eBay. Then a second one shows up and I was able to buy it. A tough San Francisco wire opener to find and I know of no others. Copyright 2004 San Francisco John Stanley PO Box 64 Convention Update Chapel Hill NC 27514-0064 (919) 419-1546 JFO Convention number 26 is fast approaching. The hotel cutoff date for registering Web Site th www.just-for-openers.org is March 14 . Please reserve a room if there is any chance of you attending. The ho- tel has plenty of rooms, but as the convention date approaches rooms may not be Past Editors: available, especially after the cutoff date. April is a popular tourist month in San Don Bull (1979-83) Ed Kaye (1984-88) Francisco. Pat and I stayed at the hotel in October and it is very nice. Our hospitality Art Santen (1989-1993) room will be on the fourth floor so when you register try and request a fourth floor room and if will not guarantee at that point, just ask for one when you check in. Membership Renewals / An- nual Dues $20.00 Please Renew if your date is Pat has a write-up about our October trip in her “Spouse’s Corner” column. As this 03/31/04 newsletter goes out I am trying to line up a Friday trip to the Anchor Steam Brewery. After some preliminary discussion with some members, we may not have the JFO Opener and Corkscrew Books (please check Selling convention auction. Recent years has seen mostly common or non-opener items of- Ads for details) fered for sale with very few desirable openers and corkscrews offered. When desir- able items have been offered, many times they do not meet reserve. The one benefit 2004 Handbook of United States Beer Advertising as always is that Verne Vollrath (the auctioneer) provides great entertainment. This is Openers & Corkscrews by not a definite “no”, but I am leaning towards not having the auction. Please feel free Bull, Kaye & Stanley to give your views on having an auction. "Just For Openers" "A Guide to Beer, Soda, & Other Open- We have a spacious hospitality room with plenty of seats. Our room will be on one ers" by Donald A. Bull & side and John Cartwright’s will be on the other side, so hopefully we can keep it open John R. Stanley all day every day except for the brewery tour on Friday. Pat and I will be arriving "Soda Advertising Openers" Tuesday night so we will have the hospitality room ready by noon on Wednesday. by Donald A. Bull & John R. Norm and Judy Jay wanted me to let everyone know they are taking a train from Chi- Stanley cago to San Francisco, then driving to Los Angeles and taking a train back to Chicago from there. This form of transportation is more expensive than flying or driving but "Beer Advertising: Knives, Letter Openers, Ice Picks, then he can bring all of the openers he wants. The trip takes about two days each way Cigar Cutters and More" by from Chicago. Donald A. Bull "The Ultimate Corkscrew —–-——–——-–—2005 JFO Omaha NE Convention——–————— Book" by Donald A. Bull John Mlady is in the process of finalizing a hotel for the 2005 JFO Convention. It "Bull's Pocket Guide to Cork- will be a Double Tree Inn in Omaha with each room being a two-room suite. Corkie screws" by Donald A. Bull is allowed so we will be driving. More details in the April newsletter. ———–———–———ABA Opener Exchange—————–————— “Boxes Full of Corkscrews” by Donald A. Bull Ernie Thoms would like to ask JFO members to consider donating any surplus open- ers to the ABA Opener Exchange. Openers would go into the museum collection or if "ANRI Woodcarvings: Bottle a duplicate to the museum they would go onto the exchange list. The member donat- Stoppers, Corkscrews, Nut- ing would receive acknowledgement of all donations in an issue of the ABA Journal. crackers, Toothpick Holders, Smoking Accessories and It looks like about 81 of the 272 JFO members are ABA members. If members would More" by Philly Rains and want to only donate to the museum collection he would send them the list of openers Donald A. Bull currently in the ABA collection (no junk please). Ernie Thoms, 206 Windemere Way, Anderson SC 29625. JUST FOR OPENERS JAN/2004 ISSUE #101 PAGE 2 Bringing Openers and Corkscrews to San Francisco My NABA Fall Meeting was in Mishawaka IN the first of October and I took about 10 openers (mainly “A”s, “B”s, and “E”s) in my carry-on bag on the flight. In Raleigh they did open my bag to check them out. Coming back from Chicago, they were not checked by the screeners. Just remember, no corkscrews, knives or ice picks will pass in- spection. If you want to bring any items in these categories, either plan on putting them in a bag that you will check into unlocked cargo or plan on shipping the items to John Cartwright. If you mail items to Cartwright you may just want to ship everything opener or corkscrew wise that you are planning on bringing to the convention. JFO Editor Buys Jerry Schele Collection While Dave Lendy and I attended the Hooiser Breweriana Show for the NABA board meeting, I had time to drive to FT Wayne IN and check out the collection of former JFO member, Jerry Schele. Thanks to Dave, he hooked me up with Doug Farmer (a Ft Wayne beer collector) who was trying to help the Schele family sale Jerry’s collection. Dave had a short list of good openers supposedly in the collection and knew the price was around $2,000 for the col- lection. I had four and a half hours to pull this off and it was a little over two hours driving each way from Misha- waka. Jerry’s widow, Kathy, was out of town and her son agreed to meet me outside of Ft Wayne and lead me to the house. I only spent 20 minutes viewing the collection. It was in a basement and it had flooded a couple of years before. As all opener collectors know, openers and water are not a good combination. Fortunately most of the good openers were high off the floor and had not gotten wet. I quickly scanned and figured there several very good styles as this was Jerry’s specialty. A lot of common openers were available. In any event I felt any price $2,000 or less would be fair. On the down side, the son would not deal on the collection. He said I would have to wait until his mother was back in town. It was two hours back to Mishawaka and I made it just in time for the NABA board meeting. The following Monday back in Durham, I called and reached Kathy. She was pretty firm on the $2,000 price as she claimed there were 2,000 openers in the collection. I agreed after she said this would include shipping to Durham. I sent her a check and about 10 days later the collection arrived. Instead of 2,000 there was really only about 500 to 600. But I was very happy with the better styles which included the following; A-11-1 Wooden Shoe, A-22-1 Bal- lantine (rough), B-5-17 Parkersburg, B-31-1 Menks, E-1-34 Monarch, E-4-84 Schultz, E-27-1 Kamm & Schellinger, P-1-1 Anthony & Kuhn and a R-6-Brass Sprenger. There were also a lot of nice “A”s and “B”s. The only bad note was I just threw out 30 to 40 openers and some good $5-10 ones that were very rusty. You never know when the opportunity will come knocking. This was not a big money maker collection, but nice types found a home in my collection. Software Upgrade Causes This Issue to Be Late In January of 2001, the JFO newsletter switched from Microsoft Word to Microsoft Desktop Publisher. I had a pretty big learning curve then, but adding pictures and several other features of Publisher allowed me much more flexibility with doing the newsletter. Probably the biggest benefit was no more paste-up pictures and having the newsletter photocopied from my printout, the newsletter could be printed straight from the publisher file. Things went very well until this summer when I would receive the proof back, 2-3 pages would not line up right. It hap- pened again and I was informed by Kinko’s (they produce the 300 copies each time) that I was using a 2000 version of Publisher and they use a 2002 version. In any event I broke down and upgraded to the 2002 version of Publisher. As you might guess another learning curve. Not as bad as it was in 2001, but as usual Microsoft is notorious moving buttons and just everything needed to use the software around to different locations than in the previous version. Anyway it is working well and you will notice some layout changes (front page and the banner section at the top). Table processing is a little more cumbersome than before but everything seems to work as well if not better. As usual comments are always wel- comed and hopefully I can be more timely in the future.