John G. Epping Bottles

[Bass Assassin]

That is so weird. Campbellsville, Ky.. I could possibly be transferring there from Louisiana. What a small world we live in. Maybe if I move there I can find the address!

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Here's another location/address I came across but currently know very little about ...

In 1927, the John G. Epping Bottling Works of Louisville acquired the NuGrape Bottling Company of Lexington, bottlers of NuGrape and Orange Crush. Their plant was located at 210 Clark Street, with Hilary Bell the General Manager.

http://lexhistory.org/wikilex/epping-bottling-works

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The Kentucky Kernel ~ Lexington, Kentucky ~ Feb 17, 1928

(This was a college newspaper for the University of Kentucky in Lexington)

210-212 Clark Street Lexington, Kentucky

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Here's another location/address for Epping Bottling Works in Lexington. Notice its from the same year as the one above. I do not know which location was the earliest or if they operated both plants at the same time. Google Earth shows a city park currently at the 3rd Street location.

From ...

Lexington City Directory ~ 1928

579-581 E. 3rd Street

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

That is so weird. Campbellsville, Ky.. I could possibly be transferring there from Louisiana. What a small world we live in. Maybe if I move there I can find the address!

Bass

Thanks

Please let us know if you come up with anything. I'm still looking but not finding!

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

P.S.

If this information is correct from the link I posted earlier, then it indicates the NuGrape Bottling that Epping bought in 1927 was on Clark Street. So I'm thinking the 3rd Street location was the latter of the two. ???

"In 1927, the John G. Epping Bottling Works of Louisville acquired the NuGrape Bottling Company of Lexington, bottlers of NuGrape and Orange Crush. Their plant was located at 210 Clark Street, with Hilary Bell the General Manager."

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Epping Locations Timeline / Subject to Revision ...

Note: To the best of my knowledge these are close-approximate start-up dates for when each of the Epping Bottling facilities were established and do not include addresses, which I'm still working on ...

Louisville, Kentucky = 1863 (Confirmed)

Lexington, Kentucky = At least as early as 1927

Campbellsville, Kentucky = At least as early as 1930

New Albany, Indiana = 1936

Lebanon, Kentucky = 1937

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Experimenting ...

(I haven't figured out how to do those multiple quotes)

Misc. Dates ...

1838 = Herman Epping born in Germany (Conflicting Dates. Some say 1840-41)
1857 = Katherine Litkenhus born in Tell City, Indiana
1863 = Herman Epping starts Bottling Works in Louisville, Kentucky
1869 = Louisville, Kentucky directory list Herman Epping Bottler with Ernest Heinecke
187? = Katherine Litkenhus marries Hermann Broecker
1877 = John George Broecker born in Louisville, Kentucky
1890 = Herman Epping marries Katherine (Litkenhus) Broecker
1896 = Herman Epping died
1910 = U.S. Census list Kate Epping Mineral Water
1910 = U.S. Census list John G Broecker Mineral Water
1911 = Katherine Epping died
1916 = Louisville, Kentucky directory list John Broecker Epping Bottling Works
1917 = Most likely year for name change from John Broecker to John Epping
1918 = John G Epping's draft card list Herman Epping as his father
1920 = U.S. Census list name as John G Epping
1920 = John G Epping marries Anna Lee Wachtel
1933 = Anna Lee (Wachtel) Epping died
1943 = John G Epping died


Location Start Dates ...

1863 =Louisville, Kentucky
1927 circa = Lexington, Kentucky
1930 circa = Campbellsville, Kentucky
1936 = New Albany, Indiana
1937 = Lebanon, Kentucky

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

This next part is a little difficult to explain but I will do my best. It involves the Alkalaris bottles and the St. Matthews location. St. Matthews is a suburb of Louisville and located to the east of the city proper. Even though I have not found an exact address for the bottling plant, I have narrowed it down pretty close. But rather than explain every attachment, I will let them speak for themselves and sum it up with the following ...

1. Indian Mineral Wells was located on La Grange Road near Shelbyville Road, St. Matthews, (Louisville) Kentucky
2. Indian Mineral Wells bottled Alkalaris Mineral Water and also Indian Wells Ginger Ale
3. John Epping bought the Indian Mineral Wells bottling company in 1941
4. The location is described as being near the Airport on La Grange Road
5. The airport on La Grange Road was established in 1927 and ceased operation in 1931
6. I cannot find the exact address for the old airport, nor is there any picture of an old airport on Google Earth

I plan to keep looking for a St. Matthews address, but the following is everything I have found so far, starting with the bottles themselves ...

[ The newspaper dates can be seen when you click on each individual image ]













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[SODAPOPBOB]

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Epping carries on 1941

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

In other words ...

Indian Wells was located on La Grange Road about 1 1/2 miles east of St. Matthews near the old airport and Shelbyville Road

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

I'm getting closer but no cigar yet ...

1937