About four years ago, I was watching my favorite show on HBO, Deadwood. After watching "Al Swearingen" serve several people shots of whiskey at the Gem Saloon, I thought...Hey! I want a shot glass from way back then. So, the first place I decided to look was on EBay. After buying a few old glasses, I received a email from the person who runs the Pre Prohibition web site. I rushed over to view it. Found several shot glasses for sale, and after dropping several hundred dollars, buying just about every shot on his site, I was hooked. "Glass Fever" the old time collectors call it! As the shots arrived, I wanted MORE, and MORE! I was humbled on EBay in several Auction's, until I bit the Bullet, and paid for a "Sniper Service". Slowly, I started to learn what glasses to go for, which one's were common, overpaying for some, getting some for a bargin. Now my collection numbers around 300 shot glasses, and about 175 Beer, and Souvenir Glasses. I have case after case hanging in my living room. And every day, I pray the old New Madrid Fault doesnt shake everything off the walls, and turn my collection into rubble!

Here is where I would like to thank the people who helped me get started in this hobby.

 The Number  1 guy in the hobby is Mr Robin Preston, and his site at www.pre-pro.com . No other person or place can provide you the information thats found there. He has a nice sales page that can get you started in this excellent hobby. You should visit it 1st, its the only place to have it all! He's known as The Glassmaster on Ebay, and you'll find  out why when you try to get a glass that he really wants!


My Favorite one in particular is Mr Dick Bales of Chicago. He writes a regular piece on the Pre prohibition web site. A must read for the collector. He and his wife are the nicest people you will ever meet. Mr Paul VanVactor of Louisville KY is a Pre-pro legend. His many sales on EBay and at the Bottle Show's make sure you always add another excellent glass to your collection. A real saint of a person, Mr VanVactor dates back to when Barbara Edmondson wrote her two books about the Pre Pro glasses. He's known as a "Founding Father" of the hobby.

 Other people I want to mention are Bruce Silva of Oregon. Many glasses in my collection are from his sales pages. Jim and Julie Dennis offer great glasses on their sales listings too. Their glasses have found a way into my collection over the past few years.

Collectors on ebay that I have made friendship with include Clint/Rye2be and his wife. Rich Lucchesi out in California has been nice enough to sell me some very rare San Francisco shots, I really appreciate him. David Wade, another legend of the hobby, a few of his cast-off shots are now on my wall. Mr Ralph VanBrocklin is a major source of great information too. He lives out in Tennessee, and we saw him on the Food Channel just the other night, showing off his collection of Flask's.

THANKS TO YOU ALL, and apologies to anyone I've left out! Email me and I'll include you, make you more famous:) A SPECIAL Hello to Mike Deppen, whos family once ran the Deppen Brewery in Reading Pa!