Shot Glasses: an American Tradition
SHOT GLASSES: AN AMERICAN TRADITION By Mark Pickvet Presented to the American Culture Faculty at the University of Michigan-Flint in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Liberal Studies in American Culture December 1988 First Reader ________ Second Reader SHOT GLASSES: AN AMERICAN TRADITION BY MARK PICKVET INTRODUCTION My intent in compiling the information contained Despite the fact that shot glasses, to the best of my in this book is for it to be much more than a catalog of shot knowledge, have never been written about, there has been glasses. It is a history project involving significant effort, a great increase in interest in recent years. Needless to say, for researching this subject has proved to be quite elusive. this is a personal interest to me; I own over 1,000 different It is not a topic that has been written about to my knowl shot glasses. I purchased my first one on a sixth grade class edge, except when it is mentioned in passing in books trip to Boblo Island in the early 1970s. Boblo Island is an about glassware. Even then, rarely more than a page or amusement park reached by ferry from Detroit Most two are devoted to shot glasses. glasses in my collection have been purchased as souvenirs After exhausting the major resources of my own of places visited. Others have been acquired at antique state, Michigan, including the cities of Flint, Lansing and stores, antique festivals and flea markets. Detroit and the enormous University of Michigan libraries I would like to note here that drinking is not a in Ann Arbor, I moved on to the city of Coming, New York.
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