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[SODAPOPBOB]

P.S. The eBay seller obviously did not do his homework - otherwise he would have realized that the Ma's Bottling Company in Lebanon, Pa. wasn't established until 1946.

 

[M.C.Glass]

I think ol' Bob is trying to pad his post numbers - Terrific research, but someone needs to get a hobby.Wait, this IS a hobby. Get a job, Bob-O!Just kidding. Tons of hits, people are reading you.

 

[squirtbob]

Great work Bob. Maybe we can celebrate all this hard detective work by brewing up some of the original squirt for all your readers. The following from 1942.

 

[cowseatmaize]

[] I'll send a SASB (bottle) to you if you make that happen. []

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

MCglass:

What do you mean "job?" I don't need no stinking job - I'm retired! As to your comment about padding the view numbers, you're right! I tap into this thread at least 250 times a day just to increase them (Not!). Seriously, though, thanks for the thumbs up. I try even though my findings aren't always conclusive and sometimes wander hither and thither.

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Squirtbob:

Cool formula. But as it says on the bottom, "Tack This Sheet On Your Syrup Room Wall." Surely you have a syrup room - right?

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Cows:

What's an SASB?

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Here's one of those hither and thither subjects I referred to that has puzzled me ever since I received it a couple of years ago. The picture was sent to me by John Mehren, who was a Squirt chemist in San Diego in the 1940s and also the brother of Squirt co-founder, Ed Mehren. According to John, the picture is of Ed in the late 1930s or early 1940s.

Notice ...

1. The crates are wood - you can see three slats on the bottom of each one.
2. The word Squirt is slanted - which are the only crates I've seen like it. Every picture I have
found of these early crates shows the word Squirt level and not slanted.
3. The bottle he is holding appears to have a noticeably rounded shoulder and is not gently
sloped like the Squirt bottles we are familiar with.
4. The word Squirt appears to be higher up on the bottle and not near the bottom like the
Squirt bottles we are familiar with.

Question:

Are my observations about the picture accurate, especially about the bottle, or am I just imagining things?

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Remember what I said earlier about Squirt being a secondary brand of Ma's Bottling? Well, here's a good example of how they were still pushing their root beer over Squirt as late as 1962 ... LDN ~ September 8, 1962

 

[squirtbob]

MCglass:

What do you mean "job?" I don't need no stinking job - I'm retired! As to your comment about padding the view numbers, you're right! I tap into this thread at least 250 times a day just to increase them (Not!). Seriously, though, thanks for the thumbs up. I try even though my findings aren't always conclusive and sometimes wander hither and thither.

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Squirtbob:

Cool formula. But as it says on the bottom, "Tack This Sheet On Your Syrup Room Wall." Surely you have a syrup room - right?

~ * ~

Cows:

What's an SASB?

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Here's one of those hither and thither subjects I referred to that has puzzled me ever since I received it a couple of years ago. The picture was sent to me by John Mehren, who was a Squirt chemist in San Diego in the 1940s and also the brother of Squirt co-founder, Ed Mehren. According to John, the picture is of Ed in the late 1930s or early 1940s.

Notice ...

1. The crates are wood - you can see three slats on the bottom of each one.
2. The word Squirt is slanted - which are the only crates I've seen like it. Every picture I have
found of these early crates shows the word Squirt level and not slanted.
3. The bottle he is holding appears to have a noticeably rounded shoulder and is not gently
sloped like the Squirt bottles we are familiar with.
4. The word Squirt appears to be higher up on the bottle and not near the bottom like the
Squirt bottles we are familiar with.

Question:

Are my observations about the picture accurate, especially about the bottle, or am I just imagining things?

Bob, That's a great picture. Is there any way that you can enlarge the bottle Mehren has in his hand? I can tell you that the only other black script squirt that I've seen is noticeably slanted on the yellow splash, unlike mine.

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Bob This is the best I could do with enlarging the Mehren bottle. I included a picture of your bottle for comparison. After opening either image, if you place your cursor arrow over the image and then gently roll the scroll wheel, it will automatically switch back and forth from each image. That way you can compare them instantly. The bottle shapes look different to me, but I'm not certain if I'm right or just seeing things.

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

P.S. Shortly after I received the picture from John Mehren I had a computer problem and lost all of my emails but was able to retrieve my picture files. I'm about 99.9% certain that John told me in the accompanying message that the picture of John Mehren was taken in 1939. I even titled it as such when I originally saved it to my files.

 

[squirtbob]

I tried to enlarge the picture without a great deal of success. Since I've positively seen 1938 and 1939 bottles, and there is no difference in shape, I would say it's just a poor picture of the bottle and there are certainly some shadows. Otherwise that's a great picture.