I’d forgotten about these.

My parents had a steel ashtray six or seven inches across, with the Chrysler Pentastar at the bottom. Bashed out at the plant during my Dad's time at Warren Stamping outside Detroit. Likely earlier than the 80s but still in use then.

Oh fuck this just unlocked a memory of childhood.

I can smell the pictures of McD’s ashtrays.

Because we all stole the glass or, in Europe the plastic, ones haha

Plastic? I'm sure Americans would have seen plastic as too cheap. They had plastic ashtrays at the fire hall (a major social gathering place then) in the rural town where I grew up and people saw them as low class. Even the Stuart's in town had glass ashtrays, and also frosted mugs for root beer.

they looked like this: www.deutsches-kunststoff-museum.de/sammlung/vir... they were used from 1990 - 1999 funny enough. so I have to correct myself, in Europe the replaced the brown glass ones with the brown plastic ones in the 90s.

That's identical to the ones I remember in America in the 70s and 80s. There was a big movement to ban smoking in bars and restaurants in New York in the 90s and my grandmother was very angry about it. She used to get a newspaper put out by a cigarette company in the mail that was full of bullshit.