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Posted: 4/28/2024 4:10:18 PM EDT
[Last Edit: ceetee]
I don't know if y'all remember my recent post about finding a box full of bowling trophies up in my attic.
There were two more boxes. I dragged one of them down, intending to toss it out, but in my neverending search for the elusive attic-stored transferable MG, I decided to go through it, looking for treasures. Mostly bowling trophies, but also this box:  Attached FileHmm. Interesting. What in the world is the one and only original Merry Go Round Bar? Inside were all these things:  Attached FileThey go together like so:  Attached FileI cleaned it all up, and filled it with plain tap water, but try as I might I couldn't get it to pump any water out. I took the pump apart (the top is just press-fit onto the barrel) and noticed that it didn't look like it even could pump liquid. In fact, inside the barrel was a piston like you see in a manual air pump. Also, the washer between the globe and the pump came out looking like this:  Attached FileIn a rare stroke of genius, I realized how this thing is supposed to work. The pump must shoot a quick shot of compressed air into the globe, which would force liquid up the drop tube and out the spigot. I had to go to Lowes anyway, so while I was there I bought a rubber washer that looked like it could fo in there. I had to trim a bit of rubber off, but voila! Eureka! And so forth!  Attached File |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 4:12:36 PM EDT
[#1]
Neat!
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Posted: 4/28/2024 4:13:32 PM EDT
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Are there other tags indicating alternate products? Nice find.
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CA, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 4:25:59 PM EDT
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Never seen one, but then again I don’t really serve jiggers
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Posted: 4/28/2024 4:27:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sakohntr: Are there other tags indicating alternate products? Nice find. Yes. There's a tag for Rye, and one for Scotch.  Attached File |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 4:38:34 PM EDT
[#5]
That's nifty.
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MT, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 4:40:28 PM EDT
[#6]
Looks like Absinthe is in your future.
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TN, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 4:50:37 PM EDT
[#7]
You should win a Nobel Prize for cool shit.
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Posted: 4/28/2024 4:51:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Flatbilly: Looks like Absinthe is in your future. Is that a brand of bourbon? 
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SD, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 4:52:43 PM EDT
[#9]
Nice
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Posted: 4/28/2024 4:54:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By fas2c: Neat! As it should be... |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 4:55:07 PM EDT
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I like that
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MD, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 4:58:46 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Bollocks44]
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Posted: 4/28/2024 5:16:30 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Bollocks44]
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Originally Posted By sirbordsalot311: Never seen one, but then again I don’t really serve jiggers Originally Posted By Ranxerox911: I'm not sure how much a jigger is, but it took 5 pumps to get 4 ounces of water, so a jigger must he 4/5th of an ounce. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 5:29:47 PM EDT
[#14]
That's pretty cool!
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Posted: 4/28/2024 5:34:05 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Stryfe]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ceetee: Yes. There's a tag for Rye, and one for Scotch. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/103046/1000002168_jpg-3200553.JPG Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ceetee: Originally Posted By sakohntr: Are there other tags indicating alternate products? Nice find. Yes. There's a tag for Rye, and one for Scotch. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/103046/1000002168_jpg-3200553.JPG Gonna take awhile to serve John and George. |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 5:40:49 PM EDT
[#16]
That's badass.
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Posted: 4/28/2024 6:04:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Stryfe: Gonna take awhile to serve John and George. This is true. |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 6:29:17 PM EDT
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Well that’s cool!
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Posted: 4/28/2024 6:36:05 PM EDT
[#19]
Cool
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Posted: 4/28/2024 7:40:59 PM EDT
[#20]
Most excellent find.
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Posted: 4/28/2024 7:53:40 PM EDT
[#21]
Jigger what?
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Posted: 4/28/2024 7:54:04 PM EDT
[#22]
Kinda want one
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NH, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 7:59:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Flatbilly: Looks like Absinthe is in your future. I have the exact same thing as the OP and that's what I use it for. My parents and grandparents used to put anisette in it for parties as an after dinner drink. It's pretty fun at parties, people seem to enjoy drinking out of the little mugs. |
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VA, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:01:12 PM EDT
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Ahbedammd. That's pretty cool.
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:24:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TheFaz: I have the exact same thing as the OP and that's what I use it for. My parents and grandparents used to put anisette in it for parties as an after dinner drink. It's pretty fun at parties, people seem to enjoy drinking out of the little mugs. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TheFaz: Originally Posted By Flatbilly: Looks like Absinthe is in your future. I have the exact same thing as the OP and that's what I use it for. My parents and grandparents used to put anisette in it for parties as an after dinner drink. It's pretty fun at parties, people seem to enjoy drinking out of the little mugs. How does it work, this Absinthe? @Flatbilly @TheFaz |
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NC, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:29:38 PM EDT
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My parents had one, I think it was in the 60s.
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:31:55 PM EDT
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A what in a jiffy?
 That’s awesome, OP |
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NC, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:34:50 PM EDT
[#28]
Color me impressed! Cool AF
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:35:23 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Bollocks44]
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PA, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:48:45 PM EDT
[#30]
I only found mousetraps and electrical hazards in my attic, I would be very happy to have found that.
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:53:03 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 302w: I only found mousetraps and electrical hazards in my attic, I would be very happy to have found that. You can have a bowling trophy if you want. I still have plenty. |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:00:55 PM EDT
[#32]
I found this portrait in the attic of my last house, which was built in 1910. I contacted the previous owners, who had lived there for years and had inherited the house from an aunt and uncle who had lived there for decades. They had no idea who it was or if it might have predated their family owning the house.
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:01:52 PM EDT
[#33]
The company moved in 1960 so the bar is 1950's probably . Very nice. You should display a bowling trophy in your house.
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:03:14 PM EDT
[#34]
Be careful, merry-go-rounds are known to throw people into the wild blue yonder.
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:09:53 PM EDT
[#35]
I saw something kinda like that for sale not long ago:
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:10:37 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By ceetee: I don't know if y'all remember my recent post about finding a box full of bowling trophies up in my attic. There were two more boxes. I dragged one of them down, intending to toss it out, but in my neverending search for the elusive attic-stored transferable MG, I decided to go through it, looking for treasures. Mostly bowling trophies, but also this box: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/103046/1000002164_jpg-3200529.JPG Hmm. Interesting. What in the world is the one and only original Merry Go Round Bar? Inside were all these things: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/103046/1000002165_jpg-3200531.JPG They go together like so: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/103046/1000002167_jpg-3200534.JPG I cleaned it all up, and filled it with plain tap water, but try as I might I couldn't get it to pump any water out. I took the pump apart (the top is just press-fit onto the barrel) and noticed that it didn't look like it even could pump liquid. In fact, inside the barrel was a piston like you see in a manual air pump. Also, the washer between the globe and the pump came out looking like this: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/103046/1000002166_jpg-3200539.JPG In a rare stroke of genius, I realized how this thing is supposed to work. The pump must shoot a quick shot of compressed air into the globe, which would force liquid up the drop tube and out the spigot. I had to go to Lowes anyway, so while I was there I bought a rubber washer that looked like it could fo in there. I had to trim a bit of rubber off, but voila! Eureka! And so forth! https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/103046/1000002170_jpg-3200543.JPG My grandmother had one identical to that one, COMPLETE with the little bourbon, rye, scotch tabs on the spout. |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:12:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Flatbilly: Looks like Absinthe is in your future. He just needs the spoons! |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:15:11 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Bollocks44]
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:19:39 PM EDT
[Last Edit: CastleBravo91]
[#39]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ceetee: How does it work, this Absinthe? @Flatbilly @TheFaz It's a green liqueur, primarily flavored with anise but it has a bunch of other botanicals in it. You put water in a little fountain, similar to the one you have but not exactly. You get a special glass that has a bottom bulbed portion. Fill the bottom with Absinthe up to the top of the bulb, then you get a perforated absinthe "spoon" to put over the glass, put a sugar cube on it, and run water over the sugar cube and into the absinth until it forms a "Louche" where it gets cloudy and opaque. Absinthe is REALLY strong (like around 68-70% usually), so you water it down which also causes the botanicals to precipitate out, resulting in the cloudy Louche. Or something like that, I could be off on some of the details. I'm sure I'll be corrected by someone.   
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:24:46 PM EDT
[#40]
 Cool find.  In my folks attic I left my mom's super creepy porcelain face doll and some of my childhood toys in a far corner setup like the doll was playing with my toys. If that don't creep the new owners out nothing will. Come to think of it they sold the house two years later ...   |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:31:13 PM EDT
[#41]
That's cool...my bourbon club would like that.
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:45:08 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Admiral_Crunch: I found this portrait in the attic of my last house, which was built in 1910. I contacted the previous owners, who had lived there for years and had inherited the house from an aunt and uncle who had lived there for decades. They had no idea who it was or if it might have predated their family owning the house. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/6688/IMG_0350-3200849.jpg Nothing written on the back of the photo? |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:54:08 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Bollocks44]
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Posted: 4/28/2024 10:51:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ceetee: Nothing written on the back of the photo? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ceetee: Originally Posted By Admiral_Crunch: I found this portrait in the attic of my last house, which was built in 1910. I contacted the previous owners, who had lived there for years and had inherited the house from an aunt and uncle who had lived there for decades. They had no idea who it was or if it might have predated their family owning the house. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/6688/IMG_0350-3200849.jpg Nothing written on the back of the photo? Nope. |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 11:03:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Admiral_Crunch: Nope. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Admiral_Crunch: Originally Posted By ceetee: Originally Posted By Admiral_Crunch: I found this portrait in the attic of my last house, which was built in 1910. I contacted the previous owners, who had lived there for years and had inherited the house from an aunt and uncle who had lived there for decades. They had no idea who it was or if it might have predated their family owning the house. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/6688/IMG_0350-3200849.jpg Nothing written on the back of the photo? Nope. That's a shame. |
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