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Posted By: <b>George Dreher</b><p>Many years ago I traveled to St. Louis for the estate auction of a deceased baseball card collector. In between the pages of one of the card albums I won was this item. I've never really done any research on it, but I believe it is a cardboard megaphone, maybe handed out at the ballpark? It is in mint unused condition, completely flat and never opened up. What I would be most interested in finding out is the year when it was made. Anyone ever seen anything like this before?<br /><br />Front:<br /><br /><a href="http://imageshack.us"><img src="http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/6346/document3gf0.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us" /></a><br /><br />Back:<br /><br /><a href="http://imageshack.us"><img src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/1379/document4gd3.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us" /></a>

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Posted By: <b>David Smith</b><p>I once had one of these. The person who gave it to me said it was a popcorn holder and then you could bust out or detach the bottom cardboard pieces and it became a megaphone. Mine was from the 1970's.

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Posted By: <b>dennis</b><p>i had one (white sox) and got it at pallbark in the late 70's/early 80's and it was a popcorn holder.

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Posted By: <b>Pcelli60</b><p>Could also be used as a megaphone..

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Posted By: <b>Frank Wakefield</b><p>That fine item held popcorn.<br /><br />The bottom had 2 tabs that closed the hole so that popcorn didn't fall out (very much).<br /><br />Popcorn was sold in these megaphones in the mid 60s and on to about 1970 at St. Louis.<br /><br />My recollection, as a kid, is that the popcorn was 50 cents. The popcorn was salty as could be, I guess so that more watered down Coke could be sold. I recall chomping the popcorn, then putting that megaphone to my mouth, and shouting my heart out. The remnants of salt down at the bottom would burn the lips. I vividly recall that.

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Posted By: <b>Rob Dewolf</b><p>The Reds also sold their popcorn in these types of megaphones/containers in the mid-70s at Riverfront. And Frank is right: The remaining salt at the bottom of the container seemed strong enough to bore through the door of a bank safe.

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Posted By: <b>Mark L</b><p>I remember these from the late 60's and early 70's.

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Posted By: <b>George Dreher</b><p>Appreciate all the responses. Didn't realize it could be a popcorn holder also.

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Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>If you look inside the display case you will see both a Red Sox and Yankees Megaphone/popcorn holder. My local minor league club still uses this idea as I got one from them at a game last year.<br /><br /><img src="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b331/nudan92/baseball%20room/vintagebaseballcollection005.jpg">

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Posted By: <b>Dave Williams</b><p>I had one (the holder/megaphone not popcorn... <img src="/images/wink.gif" height=14 width=14> thumbtacked to my wall as a kid.<br /><br />I got it at a Cardinal game in the late 70's.<br /><br />They are on Ebay on occasion.<br /><br />