bottle-o-pop
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I am a collector of decorated embossed soda bottles, but this topic isn't limited to just those.
Prohibition (the 18th amendment of the Constitution) remained in effect from 1920 to 1933. I found it interesting to read about it in Wikipedia and elsewhere.
Anyway, 13 years is a long time, and large bottling and beverage companies had to turn to other things for people to drink during that time - to keep their beverage and beverage-related businesses alive.
There was also an empty niche in people's lives. Hence, the 'prohibition bottles', but which ones are, or can be called, prohibition bottles? I guess this question really means to ask - which are the 'prohibition' brands printed on beverage bottles?
It appears to me that there are two basic kinds of 'prohibition bottles'.
There's a third type of bottle that has a name or depiction of a person that would make one think of adult partying, instead of just quenching thirst. that might be called a 'prohibition' bottle.
Has anyone here ever made or seen a list, or a specific collection, of 'prohibition bottles'?
Prohibition (the 18th amendment of the Constitution) remained in effect from 1920 to 1933. I found it interesting to read about it in Wikipedia and elsewhere.
Anyway, 13 years is a long time, and large bottling and beverage companies had to turn to other things for people to drink during that time - to keep their beverage and beverage-related businesses alive.
There was also an empty niche in people's lives. Hence, the 'prohibition bottles', but which ones are, or can be called, prohibition bottles? I guess this question really means to ask - which are the 'prohibition' brands printed on beverage bottles?
It appears to me that there are two basic kinds of 'prohibition bottles'.
- bottles with brand names that include 'tag' words such as: wine, brew, club, punch, rye, etc.
- bottles with recognizable brand names of beers or wines that have the soda bottle shape, not the beer or wine shape.
There's a third type of bottle that has a name or depiction of a person that would make one think of adult partying, instead of just quenching thirst. that might be called a 'prohibition' bottle.
Has anyone here ever made or seen a list, or a specific collection, of 'prohibition bottles'?