Bottle opener - "Just Say Heigh-Ho / A Premium Beer / Homestead 4242"

[sparrow75]

Recently picked up a bottle opener at a flea market the other day, only because it was a beer I had never heard of. I dug around on the internet to learn about the brewery, but all I found was a nice Heigh-Ho beer bottle that sold on eBay that the seller said it was a short lived brewery ftom PA in the 1940's? Anyone know additional info or if that is correct?Thanks

 

[UncleBruce]

HOMESTEAD IN PA

 

[cowseatmaize]

Have you tried that phone number?[]

 

[sparrow75]

Eric, not yet, but I assumed it was a zip code[light] Bruce, thanks for the link. If I'm interpreting that info correctly, looks like the brewery was Homestead and they existed in some form or another from 1876-1953. Heigh-Ho was a beer they made from 1935-1939...neat stuff.

 

[UncleBruce]

[font="arial black,avant garde"]"Homestead 4242"[/font] is the phone number. To dial the caller had to give that information to the operator to be connected. Times have changed. Zip codes were not introduced until 1963 and not widely until 1965.

 

[sparrow75]

Thanks again Bruce for the good info!