1/4: Stevan Miner, of Winnebago, with a few of his Hamm's beer collectible signs. (Contributed photo) 2/4: Stevan Miner's Hamm's beer collection at his home in Winnebago. (Contributed photo ...

Dan McHale may not have been the target audience, but he was still transfixed the first time he saw the Hamm's Brewery ... commercial sign west of Chicago. The glass of beer was 13 feet high ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --Collections come in all shapes and sizes, and a southern Minnesota man has one that is beyond impressive. Steve Miner is proud owner of one of the largest Hamm's Beer ...

displaying a rotating collection of classic cars and as much memorabilia nodding to auto history (Mobilgas and Phillips 66 signs) as beer (Blatz and Hamm’s signs). The unlikely bedfellows could ...

“I was fascinated,” said Miner, who is now CEO of Hamm it Up, a Winnebago-based business devoted to renovating and repairing vintage beer signs. When he was a young adult in the ...

Decades later, that kid who sat on that barstool staring at a mesmerizing Hamm’s Beer sign — the kind that slowly pans to the right to reveal a babbling brook, a beautiful forest scene ...

[cms_ad] Early advertising for the Hamm Brewery included an eagle on items such as metal beer trays, signs, glassware, calendars, and bottle labels. Early graphic art included children, women ...

"Clear coat that sucker," another commented. The Hamm's Beer "ghost sign" joins others like it in Sioux City, visions of commercial activity from days gone by: Just up the road on West Seventh ...

Ernie Garven, who penned that catchy Hamm’s beer jingle about the “land of sky-blue waters” even though he didn’t drink beer, died last week at his home in Rotonda West, Fla. He was 90. Some credit ...