wishing well soda?

Historical-Info-Service said:

Wishing Well Drinks became the flagship brand of National Dry Limited, headquartered in London, Ontario. In 1933, three businessmen purchased the assets of Alfred Tune Limited, the bottler of National Dry Ginger Ale, and formed National Dry Limited. They opened two additional bottling plants in St. Thomas and in Windsor. They carried a number of products such as Wishing Well Lime Rickey, National Dry Ginger Ale, Kilworth Belfast Dry, and a variety of Wishing Well flavours. Most were in plain green bottles with a paper label, but what became the "famous" Wishing Well Orange ( initially called Good Orange) was soon marketed in the familiar twisted clear bottle. The set of 3 shown was the style used from 1935 until the early 1950s (with the exception of the 30 oz which was shorter lived). The green acl pair was made by Consumers Glass and, though undated, are likely late 40s to early 50s.

The Wishing Well slogan and logo was "Good Alone or in Company", with marching King's guard soldiers.

Eventually Wishing Well Ginger Ale replaced the National Dry brand, and a small green acl labelled bottle was introduced for ginger ale and probably lemon-lime, while Orange, root beer, cream soda and grape would have been in the twist bottle. The 30 oz green bottle shown here was introduced in 1949.

There were many other labels used, as well as clear 30 oz bottles. I have several other green bottles not shared here.

Wishing Well did not expand into BC until 1953 when a plant opened in Langley (Milner). It only operated for 10 years, closing in 1963.

National Dry Ltd appears to have gone out of business in the early 1970s. It's unclear if Mio Manufacturing of Weston took over Wishing Well, but in 1976 Mio became National Dry Company Limited and continued to bottle Wishing Well into the 90s.

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