Or smash it against your forehead. Or open bottle caps without a bottle opener. Probably using your teeth.
The secret was to hold the can with the seam against the palm of your hand (cans were not stamped out of one piece of metal then), and crush the can with your fingers on the side opposite the seam.
I also remember linking the pull top rings into a chain so you didn’t litter the ground with them.
Oh man, pop tops.
I remember walking across a small bridge over an apparently quite popular river for fishing. There was an astonishing number of pop tops on it. Inches thick in places. It would take all day with a snow shovel to clean them up.
There were also a common cause of cuts to your feet at the beach.
Those are one thing I don’t miss.
People used these to speed up the tanning process, along with tanning oil :eek:
I just learned to crush them (steel) by strength. I didn’t know any tricks.
“They switched to aluminum back in 63, now anyone can be a hero.” - Jim Rockford
I thought of that, too.
Said to a large Black guy who had just gotten out of prison.
Yep, that was me alright! You might remember when I went up to the stage and told Dylan he got some of the lyrics wrong. 
Wow, I never knew that about Just Asking Questions.
I do remember. You made him cry. 
Did you blow out your flip flop?
Would that have been Gandy Fitch, played by Issac Hayes?
“They make them out of aluminum now, Gandy. Anyone can be a tough guy.”
Maybe. You remember The Rockford Files better than I.
Isaac Hayes is pretty unmistakable. But yeah, Gandy was always calling Jim “Rockfish.”
I think of Hayes as the Chef.
That Chef is one bad mother…
Shut your mouth!
You’re damn right!
I’m just talkin bout Chef!
And his chocolate salty balls are the sweetest!
Then we can dig it.
Yes and no. There was more tolerance for humor that today would be considered racist and sexist. But in many public forums, there was less tolerance for explicit humor (or any discussion at all) about sexual or body functions. I remember when Jimmy Carter’s hopes for the presidency were called into question because he used the words “screw” and “shack up” in an interview (in Playboy magazine, which made it even worse). Flash forward a couple decades, and we had the moralistic prig Dr. Laura using “shack up” as a catchphrase.
Ah, that nostalgic 60-cycle hum.