Vernors Ginger Ale 150th B-Day

[SODAPOPBOB]

Last but not least (for the time being) ...

My offer for the free acl book still stands but I'm adding the following to it ...

1. Any published and verifiable reference for Vernor's Ginger Ale during or earlier than 1880

and adding ...

2. Any published and verifiable reference about James Vernor operating a counter-top-type with stools soda fountain during or earlier than 1880.

Signed,

Sodapopbob

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Pic of another Outfit. LEON.

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Leon

Thanks

I've seen those around but believe they are from the 1930s or 1940s. Do you have any specifics on the dates? The earliest example of the cabinet style, like the one I posted, is this patent from the 1930s. But it seems way too late unless Vernor waited several years to actually file for a patent on it.

Filed: June 30, 1930
Registered: March 1, 1932

William E. Doughty was an assignor to the Vernor Ginger Ale Company. James Vernor was involved with quite a few patents but this is the only one I can find that looks anything like his cabinet-style "Outfit"

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

P.S.

For those who might not be aware of it, Google has a separate site called "Google Patents" that you can search by simply typing in the words 'James Vernor' and it will pull up every patent he was involved with. Google also has a separate site called "Google Books" that I use all the time but haven't figured out how to save images from, only small snippets. Anyway, check out those sites and see what you can find.

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Here are a couple of shortcut links for those that don't have time to search for websites ...

Google Patents

https://www.google.com/?tbm=pts&gws_rd=ssl

Google Books

https://books.google.com/

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

I forgot to mention I taste tested a bottle of Schweppes Ginger Ale today (that has 'Since 1783' on it) and it taste more like Sprite to me than it does ginger ale. Like I said earlier, I'm not a big fan of ginger ale but at least Vernor's taste like what I believe a ginger ale should and not like some type of highball mixer like Canada Dry and Schweppes.

 

[hemihampton]

I agree, No Ginger Ale as good as Vernor's. LEON.

 

[iggyworf]

I am drinking a Vernors right now. Ice cold. Incredibly tasty! They are the best ginger Ale.

 

[hemihampton]

Bob, Here's a Vernors Product I bet you never seen before? Lift. Did not see any in Keith W. collection? LEON.

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Leon

I'm not all that familiar with "Lift" other than I believe it was introduced in the late 1950s or early 1960s. I don't recall seeing anything about it in Keith Wunderlich's collection but could have missed it. What's the story about it? Did they ever produce it in a bottle?

 

[hemihampton]

I would assume made in a bottle but have not seen it. I don't know much about it but tough to get in a can. I have 4 different variations of it. LEON.