Inventor Ermal C. Fraze may not be a household name like Thomas Edison, but he helped create something we all use today: the pull tab that opens drink cans. Before these convenient pop-tops, people typically opened cans with a can opener or through brute force. That included Fraze himself, who forgot his church key — a small tool used to pierce metal lids — while on a family picnic in 1959. Though Fraze managed to open his beer by physically cracking the lid open against his car’s bumper, he remained frustrated by the need to carry a dedicated beverage-opening tool… read more >
Fight Litter 1968 Vintage Men's T-Shirt
Design Description Before pull tabs became standard, beer cans were opened with a pointed can opener known as a “church key.” Though the pull-tab can was invented in 1959, it didn’t become widespread until the mid-1960s, when the convenience of removable tabs also created a major litter problem. People routinely tossed
