bottle-bud
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4817 Oleatha
St. Louis, Missouri
This story starts in in 1941 when a new bottling facility is erected at 4803-4817 Oleatha Avenue in South St. Louis. A clipping from a local newspaper at the time partially shows the building, a fleet of trucks and a host of personnel who are posing for the paper. I recognize two names from the picture caption that were related to other bottling operations in St. Louis. Herman Dohrman at one time was president of the Breimeyer Bottling Company and Emil Bischoff at one time was manager of the Eagle Soda Water Company.
Red Rock had a full line of different flavors and was franchised by the Red Rock Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia. Thrill was a soda that was franchised from Green & Green of Houston, Texas.
I have two samples of each bottle in my collection that have dates of 1941. The same year as the ad.
Notice the Red rock bottles say Red Rock Beverage Company and Thrill bottles say Thrill Beverage Company, both obviously bottled on Oleatha Avenue.
1947 and Red Rock Beverage Company is now Bubble Up Bottling Company. I have lots of Bubble Ups in my collection but only two that were bottled by Bubble Up Bottling Company. One 7 ounce and one 32 ounce both dated 1947. Bubble was franchised by the Bubble Up Corporation of St. Louis, Missouri. Bubble Up will get new ownership and move to Peoria Illinois around 1958.
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St. Louis, Missouri
This story starts in in 1941 when a new bottling facility is erected at 4803-4817 Oleatha Avenue in South St. Louis. A clipping from a local newspaper at the time partially shows the building, a fleet of trucks and a host of personnel who are posing for the paper. I recognize two names from the picture caption that were related to other bottling operations in St. Louis. Herman Dohrman at one time was president of the Breimeyer Bottling Company and Emil Bischoff at one time was manager of the Eagle Soda Water Company.
Red Rock had a full line of different flavors and was franchised by the Red Rock Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia. Thrill was a soda that was franchised from Green & Green of Houston, Texas.
I have two samples of each bottle in my collection that have dates of 1941. The same year as the ad.
Notice the Red rock bottles say Red Rock Beverage Company and Thrill bottles say Thrill Beverage Company, both obviously bottled on Oleatha Avenue.
1947 and Red Rock Beverage Company is now Bubble Up Bottling Company. I have lots of Bubble Ups in my collection but only two that were bottled by Bubble Up Bottling Company. One 7 ounce and one 32 ounce both dated 1947. Bubble was franchised by the Bubble Up Corporation of St. Louis, Missouri. Bubble Up will get new ownership and move to Peoria Illinois around 1958.
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