Cold beer served with irony at Fraze

While attending the recent Alice Cooper concert at the Fraze Pavilion, my beer was served with a touch of irony. The pavilion is named to commemorate the Dayton inventor Ermal Cleon Fraze. Fraze had many inventions, but is perhaps best known for inventing the pop-top can.

The story goes that Fraze forgot to pack his can opener for a picnic and was forced to open his beer on the bumper of a car. Frustrated, he reasoned that there had to be a better way.

Fraze went to work and invented the pop-top can, revolutionizing the beverage industry. To this day, is there a sound more closely associated with the anticipation of downing a frothy cold one than the “Crack-fffffft!” of popping the top on an ice cold can of beer?

Alas, this sound cannot be heard at the Fraze. The only choice for consuming beer is from a plastic bottle or plastic cup.

Dayton freed the world from the can opener, but the structure named for its inventor does not serve cans? I say the pavilion should honor its namesake; ban the bottle and pop the top.

David Wimer

Xenia

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