Barq's Root Beer

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Bars

 

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Just for the record ...

 

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Orangine, a gold medal winner in 1893, and bankrupt in 1896. How can that be. Welcome to Louisiana guys and gals. im starting to wonder if this Barq's Orangine was a scam.

 

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Orangine, a gold medal winner in 1893, and bankrupt in 1896.

That seems to be what occurred ...


But on the other hand, you gotta wonder about the deco Orangine bottle produced by the Cascade Bottling Works in New Orleans that was owned and operated by Edward Barq's illegitimate son, Jesse Robinson. I wonder what the story is on that?

 

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P.S.

And why, after hours of searching, can I only find one example of the Orangine deco bottle, which is the one that sold on eBay and described as a "dug" bottle? Where are the other examples? I'd sure like to have one of them bottles - it just might be the rarest Barq-related bottle in existence!

 

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Speaking of Jesse Robinson ...

I'll have more later, but for the moment I can tell you ...

1. He was born in Mississippi in 1889
(But I don't know where in Mississippi)

2. He "worked" in a pop factory in New Orleans in 1920.
(But I don't know whose pop factory - The Barq's were already in Biloxi)

3. He was a bottling plant "proprietor" in New Orleans in 1930

4. He was a bottling plant "proprietor" in New Orleans in 1940

5. He died in 1949

 

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P.S.

When Jesse Robinson was born, his father, Edward Barq, was only 18 years old!

 

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P.S. - P.S.

Edward Barq's first and only marriage was to Elodie Graugnard - They were married in New Orleans in 1898 - Edward was 27 years old at the time

 

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This is the earliest New Orleans directory listing I can find where it list Jesse Robinson as an independent bottler and not working for someone else in that field ...

1921




This is the earliest New Orleans directory listing I can find where it list Jesse Robinson as the proprietor of Cascade Bottling Works. As we know, Jesse received a Barq's Root Beer franchise from Edward Barq in 1934. This was six years before that.



1928

Note: The reason you don't see the name Robinson is because it was listed under a long list of other Robinsons in New Orleans - and then alphabetized by first name.




Note: I'm not sure if Jesse Robinson started Cascade Bottling Works or bought it from someone else. All I know is that there wasn't a bottling plant listed under that name in the 1921 directory.

 

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I also found this paper label but do not know the date ...