History

Vintage: Brewery Signs Baseball Contract

Narragansett Beer signing the sponsorship contract with the Red Sox in 1950. Here's the newspaper clipping read. Narragansett Brewing Company, long-time sponsor of Major League baseball broadcasts and telecasts, today (October 17, 1950) renewed its sponsorship contracts with...

Video: Homebrewing Craft Beer!

Is it easier to buy beer instead of going through all that trouble of homebrewing? Or is it? Check out what comedy duo Elaine May and Mike Nichols thought. If you're going to homebrew, make sure you have...

Gansett Presents: Vintage 1960's Record

Vintage 1960's Gansett record featuring different versions of The Good Hours jingle by Gerry Mulligan, Don Elliot and David Lucas. Hosted by Dick Jayson. It's a 7" but 33 1/3 rpm. We have all these tunes on MP3...

Curt Gowdy Spreading Gansett Goodwill In ...

Check out this cool vintage poster featuring Curt Gowdy entertaining friends at Brennan's Famous Restaurant in New Orleans circa 1950's. Brennan's is still around today and located in the heart of the French Quarter. It's home to where...

Vintage Photo: Blizzard Of '78 And WPRO

Look what kept WPRO on-air during the Blizzard of '78! Photo courtesy of Sean Frederick. His uncle, Holland Cooke, is pictured left.

Vintage: Labor Day Ad From Gansett In The...

Narragansett Brewing advertisement in the 1914 Labor Day edition of the Providence Journal. If you look closely it says Narragansett Brewing, Providence, Rhode Island. Pretty cool find at the Rhode Island Antiques Mall in Pawtucket. Happy Labor Day...

Vintage: WNAC And The Yankee Network Feat...

Here's one for you sports fans. WNAC and The Yankee Network advertising Jim Britt as their ace sportscaster for play by play action for both Boston Braves and Red Sox baseball in the 1946 season. Sponsored by Atlantic...

Vintage: The Original “Retro”...

With all the hype over our limited edition cans, we thought we'd share some photos of the actual can that inspired this. Above is a shot of the vintage can from the 1970's that we used to recreate...

New England Heritage: Narragansett Park

Vintage Photo: The 1970's Cookout

Here's what a cookout in the 70's looked like. (Not taken with Instagram.)This may or may not have been a cookout, but it's one hell of a photo. Besides what are all these people doing gathered around 25...

Vintage: 12 Meter Yacht Cans

America's Cup is coming to Newport this weekend. With all the excitement we almost forgot about the old can Narragansett made to promote the 12 Meter Yachts. This one is dated 1980, but we know they made a...

New England Heritage: Gaspee Days

In June of 1772 brave colonists from Rhode Island burned the British revenue schooner, HMS Gaspee, during what has become recognized as the first bloodshed of the American Revolution. For the past 47 years the village of Pawtuxet,...