Re: NANFA-- Before Plastic Bags

Robert Carillio (darterman_at_hotmail.com)
Fri, 04 Aug 2000 18:08:01 EDT

>From: "Hoover, Jan J WES" <HOOVERJ_at_wes.army.mil>
>Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>To: "'nanfa_at_aquaria.net'" <nanfa at aquaria.net>
>Subject: NANFA-- Before Plastic Bags
>Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:33:19 -0500
>
>A friend and I were discussing one of the more obscure aspects of the
>aquarium hobby:
>
>Before the advent of small plastic bags, how were fish commonly transported
>among aquarists ?
>
>I remember that cardboard cartons, like those for Chinese food or ice
>cream,
>were in use as late as the 1960s. I've seen glass fruit jars used in books
>and movies depicting the 1940s (e.g., at the beginning of "The Incredible
>Mr. Limpet"), and Innes suggests that candy jars were used about that time.
>If jars or miniature versions of the old fish shipping cans were used, then
>pet shops must have had to devote a lot of space to empty containers. Is
>this what they did? If so were special fish jars manufactured or did shops
>use ordinary off-the-shelf jars?
>
>
>
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