iggyworf
Well-Known Member
Thanx CanadianBottles for that tip!
I was at a bottle show the other day and found something that I never expected to find, a 7Up bottle marked from Ottawa! And it was the post-swimsuit label as well, so not super old. I have no idea why they're so rare, but this one was in fairly bad shape and priced at $35 so I had to pass on it. I'll definitely keep an eye out for another one in the future though.
Oh yeah I never doubted that there was a 7Up plant in Ottawa but I always assumed they only used generic bottles, since Ottawa is full of generic ones and that's the only marked one I've ever seen. I saw Montreal 7 Ups in Ottawa pretty regularly, but the only Ottawa one I ever saw was in Montreal, ironically enough. I'm not 100% sure it wasn't from Ottawa, Illinois now that I think about it, but that just seems unlikely.
The prices just seemed crazy at the show I was at, is it just me or have bottle prices just skyrocketed in the last two or three years? It was not that long ago that I could get lots of nice local bottles for five bucks or less, now everyone wants $15 for an ACL Canada Dry bottle or a chipped non-local druggist. I got a couple nice ones for decent prices but I really had to search for them.