SODAPOPBOB
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Your "Best Ever Bottling Co." bottle is mucho interesting. If it wasn't for the paper label there would be no way of identifying it as being a 7up bottle. I took a quick look around and according to this first ad about their 11th anniversary it places their start date at about 1924. I haven't been able to determine yet if they ever bottled Howdy Orange or when they first started bottling 7up, other than they were definitely bottling it in 1935 as the second ad indicates. Notice in the first ad that their phone number was 2343. The owner/manager was a gentleman by the name of Charles Beery. The majority of the ads I've seen for the company are for a brand of beer called "Balboa." I'll continue to look around and see what else I can find.
By the way, what is the date number on the base? (Which is an Owens-Illinois mark) The 9 is for Streator, Illinois ... 9 <(I)> ?
Arcadia Tribune - December 21, 1934
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Arcadia Tribune - August 2, 1935 - 11th Anniversary = 1924
Notice it says they were the only bottlers of 7up in the eastern part of Los Angeles County at the time.
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