Anonymous wrote:1970s, started drinking from a cup at about 8 months. I had a metal cup with a handle. People didn't use to have water constantly at hand.

Exactly...water bottles did not exist. Kids might use a water fountain at school but most only had a drink at lunch...the milk container.

My younger brother was born in 1971. I definitely remember his Tommee Tippee cups. They were two-handled and weighted at the bottom and came with an accompanying hard plastic insert that you used to drink out of.

I saw a sippy cup in a 1950s Alfred Hitchcock hour show S1 E25 The Long Silence, so how did Richard Ballenger invent the Sippy cup?

Public water fountains.

At my grandma's (up until 1969 when they moved to town) we drank water from a dipper from a white enameled metal bucket that would be hauled on a Radio Flyer wagon to the pumphouse by the barn to be filled.

Koolaid, which grandma called "nectar" (I think this was at one time an actual brand name for a product similar to koolaid), would be poured into 6-oz jelly glasses. When DS was little I had a bunch of those although I don't recall where they came from. They were ideal for a toddler to learn to drink from a glass. The glass was thick and the diameter was small so easy to control. And had Tupperware sippy cups.

That 1981 business--I know there were cups with tops before that and positive they existed in the 60s.

1970s, started drinking from a cup at about 8 months. I had a metal cup with a handle. People didn't use to have water constantly at hand.