We'd love to have this set someday. We see them frequently in antique stores around town; a full set with the tray like this goes for $300-$400.

 

 Proclivities wrote: 
There is something on the table that looks like it says 'happy', but I can't make out the rest - it doesn't look like 'birthday'. The cowboy theme was more common in the 50's, so were the poodles, which I don't understand.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Yeah, it looks like some sort of cowboy theme on his glass, though it may be a Christmas motif. Maybe "Wildman" is trying to compensate for still having his Parker pen in his shirt pocket well after work.
  Unfortunately, that appears to be the only slide from that particular party on that guy's Flickr.  There are some intriguing pictures there - especially the "Mid-Century Mindset" folder.

 Proclivities wrote: 
And nobody's paying attention to/going home with the dude photobombing. Who's got a mixing glass (aka Pint glass) jammed into one of the holders. Biff's glass has some sort of rodeo motif, looks like. 
 
 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
They may be home-made, they seem to have large seams on them.  Only the women have the glasses with the etched leaf patterns.  The tall woman seems to be checking out Biff over there on the left - he's got some kind of special green glass. 

 Proclivities wrote: 
Now that I look closer, maybe they're homemade, but they seem like Dixie Cups, sort of. They all look different but have a stripe, sort of.

Not exactly these but I remember my grandma having them around:

 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
We have a couple of sets of those glasses with the caddys.  One has a bunch of names of pacific islands and cities in Europe in colors and odd angles all over it. I've searched a bunch and all I can come up with is that they were mostly notable conflict areas in WWII. Seems an odd choice for decoration, but cool nonetheless. 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
I wasn't sure what to call those things to Google them (coaster-cocktail-cups?).  The other adornments could be fun in the right environment - nice package design.

 Proclivities wrote: 
That lyric from Got Me Under Pressure "She like whips and chains" just come to mind for some reason....

 Proclivities wrote: 
I went googling and didn't find those coaster things but I did find these:


...which are similar to a set I own, right down to the carrier. Should get those out; they were my grandma's.
 
Also spotted these, which may come out later in the party:
 

 Coaxial wrote: 
Yeah, she looks like a real "live wire" (one of my father's old expressions).  All that shiny jewelry and the choker: the photographer probably had a crush on her.

 Proclivities wrote: 
I see that...I think we had some rubbery plastic thing that kept the condensation to a minimum...I love the look in the eye of the lady, with the hand full of sugar, eating the Bonbon.

 Coaxial wrote: 
There are some interesting details there: the clothes, the decor, the low ceiling.  It looks like the glasses have some sort of early "coozie" prototypes on them, but more for absorption than insulation.  They are not just napkins wrapped around the bottoms. 

 Proclivities wrote: 
Quite a group...The couple seem to be dealing with their pain with their own poison of choice.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
what are the odds?