Origin of the "Up yoors Coors" bumper sticker from years ago.

i actually learned the answer to this while on the coors tour in golden colorado. too bad i got blasted afterward and can't remember a thing. 1 free freshest beer ever during the tour, 3 beers free afterward, then somehow my friends and i got selected for a taste test which included another 4-5 beers. plus i was high. good times!

the Coors tour guide would hardly tell the truth if it was negative to Coors.

Ahhhhh, Colorado piss water. I remember when it was only sold west of the Mississippi river and everyone thought it was great.

notice how no one has actually answered the purpose and question of the thread but decided to pontificate on some tangent.

...or to scold the "trolls"

trolls have to be 'called out' so they will realize the error of their ways and cease and desist.

I can't verify the comment about Adolph Coors, but I do know that the present day owner(s) of Coors make ample contributions to the Republican Party and are purportedly staunch conservatives.

I'm old, so I'll tell you what I remember:

Sixty Minutes did a segment on Coors in about 1980 or so. Coors would not let a union in, so that's probably the grievance you remember. The workers at Coors said on camera that they were happy with how they were treated at work and didn't feel they needed a union. But I remember it being all about union issues.

The Coors family are ultra right wing (not sure about their South Africa connections, but it's possible because Republicans have an abysmal record for how they treat blacks and women), but it is possible you are both a little bit right.

It doesn't take much effort on liberals' part to boycott one brand of beer that tastes pretty much like most of all the other beers out there.

As a funny aside, I used to drink Schlitz beer in college, which was horrible beer, because when Frank Shorter was asked in Runner's World magazine what his favorite snack was, he said he loved "Ding Dongs and Schlitz beer." It made me run faster to the bathroom.

Coors also generously donated money to buy supplies (i.e. helicopters/weapons) for the freedom fighters in Nicaragua and Guatemala during our effort to spread democracy in our own hemisphere (and to protect American fruit company interests from those pesky Communist land reformists). These freedom fighters occassionally mistook Catholic nuns and priests for enemy soldiers, but we managed to usually keep those rapes and killings quiet.

"Republicans have an abysmal record for how they treat blacks and women"

Yeah! Totally! Like when the Republican Abraham Lincoln emancipated the slaves!

Over-Generalizationist wrote:

"Republicans have an abysmal record for how they treat blacks and women"

Yeah! Totally! Like when the Republican Abraham Lincoln emancipated the slaves!

Having just watched the Ken Burns Civil War anthology on PBS, I can tell you that Lincoln, NOT the Republican Party was the force behind freeing the slaves. He had to totally fight the rest of his party to get that done. Anyway, that's pretty lame when you have to go back 150 years to find an example of a Republican caring about civil rights....yikes

hello McFly anyone home.. wrote:

Over-Generalizationist wrote:

"Republicans have an abysmal record for how they treat blacks and women"

Yeah! Totally! Like when the Republican Abraham Lincoln emancipated the slaves!

Having just watched the Ken Burns Civil War anthology on PBS, I can tell you that Lincoln, NOT the Republican Party was the force behind freeing the slaves. He had to totally fight the rest of his party to get that done. Anyway, that's pretty lame when you have to go back 150 years to find an example of a Republican caring about civil rights....yikes

Agreed.

Also, the parties of even 50 years ago are not the parties of today. Remember Strom Thurmond was once a Democrat--back when the Democratic party was dominated by "Dixiecrats" from the south. Both parties have evolved and are on a continual state of change. Even today's Republicans show little semblance to the fiscally conservative, small government, non-nation-building Republicans of even 20 years ago.

I think one big mistake that people make is to think that either party has any enduring principals. They do not. They change to get votes and get elected, that's it. If you are a "life-long" Republican or Democrat, you should take a look at your own principals and those of your party--I think that you would be surprised how much distance there is between the two.

Bill Coors, dead at 102.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/companies/bill-coors-influential-beer-industry-leader-dies-at-102/ar-BBOmhQ1

It's a poorly kept secret that the Coors family bankrolled the KKK in Colorado for years. Buncha bigot brewers.

I remember sexism being the issue but there were some others as well:

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1987/3/5/is-coors-the-one-pbtbhe-most/

When I was in college, you couldn't buy Coors in California because it wasn't pasteurized.

Another Coors family tale that's been circulating in the Denver area for some time is that one of the male heirs is gay and was told he has to remain closeted to maintain his trust fund/inheritance.

Zebulon Pike wrote:

Another Coors family tale that's been circulating in the Denver area for some time is that one of the male heirs is gay and was told he has to remain closeted to maintain his trust fund/inheritance.

Coors treated its employees and their families very well, much better than other companies, and Golden was an aptly named company town with company subsidized housing, schools and playgrounds.But some leftist, Commie, New York union agitators tried to muscle in a union of their own and they were behind the discord and the bumper stickers.

Over-Generalizationist wrote:

"Republicans have an abysmal record for how they treat blacks and women"

Yeah! Totally! Like when the Republican Abraham Lincoln emancipated the slaves!

The Dimocrats race bait and keep blacks down with their crappy socialist policies. What a sorry bunch you lefties are.

A guy name Bud Weiser invented the slogan.