[SOC] Beer Slobs

[David Ring]

And then again, there is the mysterious "33" on the back label of "Rolling
Rock" a very light but excellent tasting lager from Latrobe, PA.  Was it the
end of Prohibition?  A way to say "all my love" without the mushiness of
"88" as some have suggested?

The last transmission of Radio Officer Albion Lane from the sinking "Marine
Electric" call sign WOOH in 1983 was "33".  Al had a wonderful signal and I
used to listen to him in the mornings coming up and down the coast from VA
to MA (they were a coal carrier for the Massachusetts Electric generation
plant in SE Coast of Massachusetts.   He would call either USCG VA or USCG
MA with his WX observation messages with a great fist on a hand key and nice
crisp modulated cw (mcw).   He was the last to die before the two or three
survivors were rescued by USCG in a terrible storm off of VA coast.

73
DR

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Rich Jones <michjonezee at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On the back of the labels on "stubbies" were a series of dots.  4 dots
> meant your girl had to give out  The only thing was you had to have a girl.
> dots, what dots.