Four Famous Photos Made Better with Craft Beer

, Four Famous Photos Made Better with Craft Beer

 

There are iconic photos that capture the essence of an era or a period of history that are both artistically beautiful and thought provoking. Here at ACB, we wondered how we could change several pictures to make them more interesting. Of course, we added craft beer to each one to achieve this feat.

 

, Four Famous Photos Made Better with Craft Beer

The First Keg on the Moon

On July 20, 1969, the US of A put the first keg of craft beer on the moon. It was one small sip for man, one giant chug for mankind. Originally, Neil Armstrong wanted to just place the US flag directly into the lunar soil, but NASA’s leading party guy, Buzz Aldrin, snuck a keg from his favorite brewery onto Apollo 11 for the long space voyage. Buzz had the brilliant idea of mounting the flag to the keg because he knew that there was about four inches of “moon soil” on their sound stage in Hollywood, I mean “the moon.” 

 

, Four Famous Photos Made Better with Craft Beer

 

 

Beer Safety Last!

Harold Lloyd starred in the romantic comedy silent film, Safety Last!, which produced one of the most iconic stills from the silent film age: Lloyd grasping a giant beer tap handle that is affixed to a clock on the side of a skyscraper. In the film, Lloyd is dared as a publicity stunt to climb the 12-story Bolton Building to pull the untapped beer handle on the legendary Beer Clock of Brooklyn. Harold reaches the tap handle, but it almost breaks off while he hangs on it. The beer pours down to the thirsty passersby, but the heavy stream also hits a portly baker carrying 10 cream pies, causing a beer-soaked, whipped-cream mess over everyone on the sidewalk. They sure don’t make comedies like this anymore! 

, Four Famous Photos Made Better with Craft Beer

V-J Beers in Times Square

On August 14, 1945, Navy sailor George Mendonsa exited a movie theater at Radio City Music Hall when he heard that Japan surrendered, thus ending WWII. Bartenders in Time Square were pouring free drinks in celebration of the US victory, and George, being the craft beer lover that he was, pounded a few American pale ales. George was walking from the bar to the subway with his date, Rita Petry, when he saw a nurse, carrying a couple 12-packs. Overwhelmed with compassion for nurses because of their service and dedication to saving the lives of fellow sailors overseas and a desire for the craft beer, George dipped that nurse and planted his big, bottle-sucking lips on her mouth hole. Thank God Alfred Eisenstaedt was there to snap the picture so that we could all commemorate the ending of WWII with beer. 

 

, Four Famous Photos Made Better with Craft BeerYalta Conference Kegger

After Hitler was defeated, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met at Yalta in the Crimea for the Yalta Conference in February of 1945 to discuss Europe’s post-war reorganization. What history doesn’t tell you is that Roosevelt brought a couple pony kegs of his favorite IPA to the conference, which really lightened the negotiation talks. Of course, Stalin would only drink out of a red Solo cup because he had to represent his Red Army and Churchill kept bragging that the Brits were the ones to invent the IPA. Nobody knows how the 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Andrew Browne Cunningham, got that giant mug of a woman’s bust. Andrew was later found skinny-dipping in the Black Sea with Eleanor Roosevelt. 

 

 

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