Vintage Trash Can

[55chevy]

Picked up this heavy trash container at an estate sale at a 50's era house. Painted and added Pure Oil decal. Then decided to put a coat of wax on the floor of the show room part of our garages. Time for an adult beverage!

 

[carnutdallas]

Winner-Winner-Chicken-Dinner!!!


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[gearhead1]

Nice!

 

[colt zantop]

Very cool!

 

[jonshonda]

awesome work!

 

[rburke65]

Floor looks great.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Both look really nice.

I got a trash can like that years ago. I let it go and still regret it.

 

[PFSard]

That can is slick. Goes great with that floor. That pic of your garage looks better than the inside of my house. I'm jealous.

 

[yeldogt]

Are they St. Charles metal cabinets in the background?

I did a midcentury modern and had to track some of them down -- ended up buying a whole kitchen to get some extras that I needed. Harvest Gold. I had a local body shop paint all the ones for that project. Saved the extras and used them in another projects laundry room -- again painted by my local auto place (white) . Amazing cabinets and quite valuable today -- especially the curved ends ..

 

[55chevy]

I have two sets in this part of this garage. The ones pictured are Beauticraft, 1952. I have another set in that room that are Youngstown.

You may not have seen my post from last week, but I was gifted another set attached recently. Not sure what I'll do with them.
50's steel cabinets work great in a shop.

 

[goforbroke]

Super cool trashcan,

*searching craigslist for vintage trashcan now*

 

[yeldogt]

I have two sets in this part of this garage. The ones pictured are Beauticraft, 1952. I have another set in that room that are Youngstown.

You may not have seen my post from last week, but I was gifted another set attached recently. Not sure what I'll do with them.
50's steel cabinets work great in a shop.

cool ... Don't know much about other makers. The St Charles are tanks -- and they have all these accessories that go into them.

I'm keeping what I have because if I ever do another NYC apartment kitchen -- I'm going to track down the few I need to make it work.

 

[gungatim]

Is that a Bennet? I have one that looks similar. galvanized can inside pulls out to empty. Bennet made lots of service station stuff besides just gas pumps.

I stumbled across mine at a moving sale, guy said it was there when he moved in and didn't know it was anything special...cost me $1

I need to get it looking as good as yours some day.

 

[55chevy]

Mine is an Atlas, Chicago, Ill. $1? Mine was $15. You just earned a you **** award. Good job

 

[sberry]

Kept something similar in the paint bay till I remodeled.