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RE: Ash Cans??
Posted by: Craig McLean ()
Date: January 30, 2001 05:32PM

<HTML>My feeling about the nickname was always that they looked like big garbage cans, or ash cans. I think they were about the size of 50-gallon drums, often used as garbage cans, too. We still used them in the Army as garbage cans for outside of buildings. In the winter, fires were built in them for warming up outside.

Civilians used them, too. If you\'ve seen movies like Rocky, you see folks hanging out on street corners warming up around them.

Anyway, I think that is where the nickname came from. </HTML>

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RE: Ash Cans?? Craig McLean 01/31/2001 03:14AM
RE: Ash Cans?? Craig McLean 01/30/2001 05:32PM
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RE: Ash Cans?? Werner Frank 01/31/2001 02:55AM
RE: Ash Cans?? Craig McLean 01/31/2001 03:11AM
RE: Ash Cans?? Werner Frank 02/01/2001 04:15AM
RE: Ash Cans?? Ying 01/31/2001 11:13AM
RE: Ash Cans?? Rainer Kolbicz 01/31/2001 02:03PM
RE: Ash Cans?? Jon Balson 01/31/2001 03:06PM
RE: Ash Cans?? Anders Wingren 02/01/2001 12:53AM
RE: Ash Cans?? Ying 02/01/2001 08:32AM
RE: Ash Cans?? Rainer Bruns 02/01/2001 02:36PM
RE: Ash Cans?? Ying 02/02/2001 08:07AM
RE: Ash Cans?? Rainer Bruns 02/02/2001 01:55PM
\&quot;Frau Kaleu\&quot;?--Thanks Rainer! :) Ying 02/03/2001 11:33AM
RE: I\'ll go for that ..... MPC 02/07/2001 11:52PM


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