Cheerwine from Asheville, NC

morbious_fod · Apr 7, 2014

This weekend I found a paneled Cheerwine bottle from Asheville, NC at a toy show in Johnson City. I can't find anything on it online. Any of you Asheville collectors know who was bottling Cheerwine down there in 1952?

Aloysia · Apr 7, 2014

This hard-to-find vintage Caravan Soda Beverage Drink Bottle, made by Cheerwine Bottling Co., Charlotte, North Carolina. Cheerwine became a patented beverage in 1926, and opened a bottling company in Charlotte in 1927, but was sold to the Sun-Drop Company shortly thereafter. Is this what u r asking about ?

2find4me · Apr 7, 2014

I assume you are talking about this paneled deco Cheerwine:

If this is your bottle it dates from around the 1920's.I have no idea who would have been the bottler from Asheville, although Cheerwine was bottled through out NC starting in 1926.

SODAPOPBOB · Apr 7, 2014

Morb This is just a shot in the dark, but do you suppose it's possible that the NEHI BOTTING COMPANY of Asheville also bottled Cheerwine? If you are not already familiar with this book, check out the picture of the Nehi plant in Asheville and you will notice they also bottled Royal Crown and Par-T-Pak. I'm not sure what year the picture was taken but it appears to be from the 1940s or 1950s. http://books.google.com/books?id=CiVDOcBTZAEC&pg=PA97&dq=asheville+north+carolina+bottling&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wh5DU_HoC-GEyAHbwIDACA&ved=0CGYQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=asheville%20north%20carolina%20bottling&f=false

SODAPOPBOB · Apr 7, 2014

P.S. The text on the previous page says "Royal Crown Bottling" but the sign on the building says "Nehi Bottling" so I'm not sure which of the two references is the correct one. Maybe it was both. ???

SODAPOPBOB · Apr 7, 2014

P.S. ~ P.S. I looked through numerous newspaper archives but this is the only listing I could find related to Asheville, North Carolina soda bottlers. ( If nothing else, it at least helps to answer one of my previous questions). The Church Advocate ~ Asheville, N.C. ~ August 13, 1943

MichaelFla · Apr 7, 2014

Cheerwine and Lime Cola were made by the same company. Cheerwine has been around since ca. 1917, and is still around today. Cheerwine

SODAPOPBOB · Apr 7, 2014

Clarification ... I realize there were other soda bottlers in Asheville in the 1940s and 1950s, such as Coca Cola - Pepsi Cola - Orange Crush (and possibly others) but my search and recent postings are primarily focused on Cheerwine bottlers, which I have been unable to find any references for. At least not in Asheville, North Carolina.

SODAPOPBOB · Apr 7, 2014

This will be my last post unless I find something directly related to a Cheerwine bottler in Asheville in 1952 or thereabouts. Just for the record, from ... 1948

MichaelFla · Apr 7, 2014

I found a snippet in a book titled "Problems of American Small Business" (with a really long subtitle) from 1942 that says:"Location and names of plants temporarily closed because unable to obtain sugar, together with the names of sugar distributors or brokers who are unable to deliver the sugar: Asheville: Smoky Mountain Distributors, Food Brokers, Inc. Dr. Pepper, Pilot Brokerage Co. Tru-Ade, Avery Rhyne Cheerwine, Thomas & Howard, C. D. Kenny Division Seven-Up, Savannah Sugar Refinery, Savannah"

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