Early Bubble Up bottles?

[celerycola]

The newspaper ad I have was poor quality and there was no way to enhance the label and make it readable. There was a classified help wanted ad from the company looking for people to work in their NC orchards.

I suspect the grape drink was seasonal at harvest time and they added other flavors to make use of their bottling equipment in the spring and early summer.

 

[ConsDigginVids]

here is my 1937 bubble up soda

 

[ConsDigginVids]

pic 2

 

[Eric]

Here are two embossed from my friends collection... He has some killer embossed bottles!
The Green is a 6.5 oz bottle with Bubble Up and the 6.5 oz embossed on it... no other dates
or marking on the bottom.
The Clear say Bubble Up Beverage Co.
Indianapolis IN Full Half Pint
on the bottom it has a 9<>4
1 Duraglass G 749

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Truly cool Bubble Up's.

The 9 <(I)> 4 Translates ...

Owens-Illinois / Duraglas / Glass Plant no. 9 / Streator, Illinois / 1940 or 1944

SPBOB

 

[JayBeck]

Eric, thank you for posting the picture of the Bubble Up bottles! That is the kind of stuff I wanted to see. I would assume the green bottle has a paper label at one time and probably from the 1930s. The clear deco embossed bottle is awesome! I hope I can eventually find one of those. As Bob said, early 40s, most likely a bit newer than the green one. I'm glad to know that there are indeed some embossed Bubble Up bottles out there. Any paper label examples out there?

ORIGINAL: Eric

Here are two embossed from my friends collection... He has some killer embossed bottles!
The Green is a 6.5 oz bottle with Bubble Up and the 6.5 oz embossed on it... no other dates
or marking on the bottom.
The Clear say Bubble Up Beverage Co.
Indianapolis IN Full Half Pint
on the bottom it has a  9<>4 
                                  1                   Duraglass G  749 

 

[digdug]

Here is an early (around 1919) Bubble Up Paper Label. Thought you might like it. Found it at the Trade mark website after A LOT of searching!

 

[JayBeck]

Doug, WOW! Thank you so much! Now that is what I was hoping to see. It is now my mission to try to find one the bottles with that label still on it. It is also neat to see that the label not only has Sandusky, OH on it but also Pinehurst, NC which helps to fill in the NC connection that celerycola mentioned earlier. Although the label does not state that this was a grape beverage I am thinking the "unfermented beverage" is a clue to that fact.

Based on what I have found so far, this label must date between 1917 and 1921. At some point between 1919 and 1921, Bubble Up changed from an unfermented grape beverage into the lemon-lime soda we know today. So how did that happen? The 1921 patent date can be found on many of the Bubble Up items so that establishes the earliest known date for a lemon-lime Bubble Up. It does not seem clear whether the established date for the Sandusky grape Bubble Up is 1917 or 1919 but it is definitely from that era. I would like to know for sure that the original 1917 or 1919 Bubble Up is the same brand that became the 1921 lemon-lime Bubble Up. It seems that the brand was sold by Sweet Valley Products after 1919 to become the lemon-lime brand but I can find no information on that matter. Maybe prohibition had some impact on this change? However, that does not seem to make sense if wine was prohibited there would be a lot more grapes available for an unfermented grape beverage.

Any additional ideas, comments or info are greatly appreciated!

 

[TheCaliKid]

ORIGINAL: Eric

Here are two embossed from my friends collection... He has some killer embossed bottles!
The Green is a 6.5 oz bottle with Bubble Up and the 6.5 oz embossed on it... no other dates
or marking on the bottom.
The Clear say Bubble Up Beverage Co.
Indianapolis IN Full Half Pint
on the bottom it has a 9<>4
1 Duraglass G 749

I'm in love. How does he get them so CLEAN???

 

[JayBeck]

Hopefully I will eventually be able to find some more information about the early days of Bubble Up but I did find some nice stuff from the ACL era on gono.com. The earliest ACL date listed on the site is 1947 but I doubt that is when the first Bubble Up ACL showed up. Check out bottle E in the photo. It looks like the earliest bottle of the bunch even though the date is not listed. Looks like late 1930s or early 1940s. Does anyone have an example of this bottle to show a better picture?