Mike Larkin hit paydirt with those cups from Etsy. That is as close a
likeness that I have ever seen. It's too bad that I don't remember the
manufacturer's name that was etched on the underside of my dad's mug.
I did find one cup that, like Mike Larkin's, resembles grandpa's mugs. See the picture below. It's a 1968 stainless Japanese cup. I don't know why my dad liked those condiment cups at the Trails in Duarte. Don't know if it is a memory from the war or if it is a memory from his days trucking with his dad up and down Highway 99 from San Jose and San Francisco to San Diego. I just don't know. Your mom might have some insight on that. Wished I did.
Here is another cup that looks really, really like the one that my dad used. That same cup is pictured here but with a lid. Yeah, a lid, showing how the cup could have had a dual purpose of cooking in it. So again, it could have resembled some standard issue that belonged to a GI mess kit that my dad saw in WWII or something that he and his Pa used for cooking on roadsides on their treks north and south through central California.
I did find one cup that, like Mike Larkin's, resembles grandpa's mugs. See the picture below. It's a 1968 stainless Japanese cup. I don't know why my dad liked those condiment cups at the Trails in Duarte. Don't know if it is a memory from the war or if it is a memory from his days trucking with his dad up and down Highway 99 from San Jose and San Francisco to San Diego. I just don't know. Your mom might have some insight on that. Wished I did.
Here is another cup that looks really, really like the one that my dad used. That same cup is pictured here but with a lid. Yeah, a lid, showing how the cup could have had a dual purpose of cooking in it. So again, it could have resembled some standard issue that belonged to a GI mess kit that my dad saw in WWII or something that he and his Pa used for cooking on roadsides on their treks north and south through central California.
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