Collins Beverages - Barrie Ontario soda bottle

[RCO]

found some really neat info on this bottler when searching thru an old barrie newspaper online , oddly nothing mentions what happens to them in the end ?

is a help wanted as from 1953 , mentioned in a 1949 article about building in the city , George Fricke was one of the owners and served in US army during WW2 and returned to barrie , council sold property on Victoria/innisfil streets for $500 in 1949

they also sponsored the weekly cartoons , mentioned the ginger in large bottles , 2 for 35 cents

a Pure Spring ad from august 1953 , didn't know they bottled pure spring there

and best one a vintage call for a Collins ad from 1948

 

[Donas12]

found some really neat info on this bottler when searching thru an old barrie newspaper online , oddly nothing mentions what happens to them in the end ?

is a help wanted as from 1953 , mentioned in a 1949 article about building in the city , George Fricke was one of the owners and served in US army during WW2 and returned to barrie , council sold property on Victoria/innisfil streets for $500 in 1949

they also sponsored the weekly cartoons , mentioned the ginger in large bottles , 2 for 35 cents

a Pure Spring ad from august 1953 , didn't know they bottled pure spring there

and best one a vintage call for a Collins ad from 1948 View attachment 219278View attachment 219279View attachment 219280View attachment 219281View attachment 219282View attachment 219283View attachment 219284

This is interesting info! So they must have only been around for maybe 5 years or so?
Pure Springs too, cool, wonder if they had their name on the backs of these bottles...

 

[RCO]

This is interesting info! So they must have only been around for maybe 5 years or so?
Pure Springs too, cool, wonder if they had their name on the backs of these bottles...

I'm not sure how long they operated for , the Ontario bottle book says 1948 - 1957

however when searching that newspaper there is no mention of them past 1953 , so unclear what they did between 1954 - 57 if anything , although possible they were still there just not as active or such ? oddly nothing in the paper about there closure ? not a word of them

I've never seen a pure spring bottle with anything other than Ottawa here so would doubt there is one for Collins but new to me as I wasn't aware it was done in barrie although have read about pure spring having so called branches in different places in Ontario