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One Thermos and Three Generations of Underground Coal Miners
A few years before my grandfather retired from working in the underground coal mines he purchased a new Stanley Thermos to take with him to work. When he retired he gave it to my father who was working in the mines. It suffered some cruel treatment and received a large dent in the side, but still works great. My father retired and passed it on to me, and I've carried it underground only until I realized how sentimental it was and that I'd rather not loose it. If you work in an underground coal mines you know Stanley is the only thermos that will survive the harsh conditions and mistreatment, t...
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READ FULL STORY It is like a common tool for Construction Workers
When my father started in the construction industry in 1979 he purchased a Stanley Thermos. When I took my first job in the industry in 2007 after graduating college he passed his trusty thermos on to me. As I got on the jobsite, I noticed many construction workers relied on the Stanley brand for keeping coffee hot ALL DAY LONG! It is amazing to me that after so many years of use and abuse it keeps on tickin! THANKS!
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READ FULL STORY Grandfather's Stanley N944
For years I saw my grandfather's thermos in our storage building. Didn't think much about it until I started taking coffee to the duck blind. I purchased a rather nice "thermos" thinking it would do the same as any other, but it was easily dinged up while carrying to and from the swamp. My fellow hunters were all carrying Stanley brand and had nothing but praise for them. My mind immediately went to that old Stanley sitting on the shelf of the buidling many years ago. I went back to my parents and asked if they knew where it was located now. My mom had found it in the building...
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READ FULL STORY Thirty Below Road Trip
Last winter, I left my home in Ohio and filled my big Stanley thermos with hot water for tea for the trip. It's a twelve hour trip from Ohio to Minneapolis. When I got to Minneapolis, I emptied my car, but forgot the thermos. Air temperature overnight was thirty below. Windchill was colder than that. I remembered my thermos the next morning and went out to get it and not only was it not frozen solid, but the water inside was still hot enough to brew a brand new cup of tea. Incredible.
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Even a car crash can't stop this bottle.
I was delivering some copiers for my job on the morning of December 14th, 2006. That morning I had already had two fresh cups of coffee from my Stanley Vacuum Bottle. Thirty miles from my destination, I encountered a cross-wind that sent our company van out of control. I ended up in a horrible car accident that broke both of the bones in my right forearm, fractured my c6 vertebrae, and broke my jaw. After a one hour extrication from the local fire department, I was on my way to the local hospital lucky to be alive. Eight days after my accident I was released from the hospital with pins in...
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READ FULL STORY A Welcome Legacy
I am using an A-944B Bottle that has been in use by my Grandfather since 1974. When he passed in '06, my grandmother gifted it to me. Every day when I was little, I remember him taking this bottle, cradled in its matching Aladdin lunchbox to work with him as he drove a truck for the Lancaster County Roads Department in southeast Nebraska. Every day for over thirty years. Now it comes to work with me. I love the thing, even though everyone I work with pokes fun at my antique. Long after their Starbucks or Scooters cups have been discarded, I'm still sipping away on my next-to-scalding pla...
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Baby Water
I was trying to find a way to keep water hot until I needed to make a bottle for my 3month old baby girl, my husband tells me I use my stanley to keep my coffee hot you might want to try it for the babies water. So here it is I use my stanley everytime I go out the house to make sure I have hot baby water when needed to make a bottle its the best ever I just wish it came in pink so it could match her diaper bag! Thanks you saved my life and I will never need a mircowave around to heat up a bottle when I am out and about. P.S Those heating elements they make for babies bottle don't work worth a...
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READ FULL STORY tougher than a tractor
while driving my 1964 minneapolis-moline U-302 tractor to the neighbors to split some firewood with the attached log splitter in tow, i felt as if i ran over a log with the left rear tire. A quick glance behind me didnt show anything, and so i went on. reaching the wood pile I stopped the tractor & prepared to set up. About the time I reached for my classic stanley quart bottle it hit me,"wern't no log" because it wasn't were I put it on the tractor!... Back tracking on foot I found it in the pathway half under the semi soft earth. Still mostly full of hot coffee & not to bad...
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READ FULL STORY Little did I know!!!!
My first Stanley was given to me by my neighbor the garbage man. It was used but still usable. But this story is about my second Stanley. A few months after getting my first Stanley in 1995 I was shopping in a second hand store and saw this very nice looking chrome plated thermos. So I bought it for $6.00 and when I got it home looked it over I notice on the bottom it was called a Ferrostat made by Stanley Insulating co. of Great Barrington Mass. with a date of Sept.12, 1913. I thought this was old, but did realize until 2003 when in a walmart store I notice a new Stanley thermos box stat...
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never!
After 26 years my stanley is still on the job.I work for AT&T.This is my second one,Do you believe I ruined my first one,I have taken better care of this one. Many people still ask wheni'm getting a new thermos.. I still say NEVER! Rob
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