{"id":1166,"date":"2009-07-06T20:41:25","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T01:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hulettsonlakegeorge.com\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2009-07-06T20:41:25","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T01:41:25","slug":"historic-huletts-beer-can-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/1166","title":{"rendered":"Historic Huletts Beer Can Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/Beer_Art2.png\"><\/p>\n<p>Many people may remember longtime Huletts resident, Frank Nelson, who passed away sometime in the late 1970&#8217;s or early 1980&#8217;s. He lived past the entrance to the Mountain Grove Memorial Church.<\/p>\n<p>I came across these recently and thought they&#8217;d make an interesting story. One of Mr. Nelson&#8217;s hobbies was making artwork that resembled miniature furniture out of beer cans.   These were some of the pieces he gave to me when I was younger.<\/p>\n<p>He basically took a beer can, cut it and twisted it and added padding for the seat and turned it into a miniature furniture set.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/Beer_Art1.png\"><br \/>\nI took two shots of the same pieces below. Here is what the finished product looked like.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/Beer_Art3.png\"><br \/>\nHere you can clearly see the bottom of the beer can under the padding.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/Beer_Art4.png\"><\/p>\n<p>Many people in Huletts probably have some of these pieces still around but it&#8217;s a great example of taking everyday garbage and making something useful and artistic out of it.  The funny thing is, Mr. Nelson actually told me; &#8220;Hold onto these, someday they&#8217;ll be worth something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you have any beer cans left over from the 4th, you can try it too! It proves the old axiom, &#8220;that one man&#8217;s garbage is another man&#8217;s treasure!&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people may remember longtime Huletts resident, Frank Nelson, who passed away sometime in the late 1970&#8217;s or early 1980&#8217;s. He lived past the entrance to the Mountain Grove Memorial Church. I came across these recently and thought they&#8217;d make an interesting story. One of Mr. Nelson&#8217;s hobbies was making artwork that resembled miniature furniture &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/1166\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Historic Huletts Beer Can Art&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,8,12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casino-fun","category-history","category-our-neighbors","category-the-environment","category-the-landing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}