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Gross Bottling Company
1533-1535 N. 15th Street
St. Louis, Missouri
Christian Gross acquired a parcel of land in 1888 and started a soda water factory in St. Louis that would stay at the same location until 1948. That is 60 years. Here is a clipping that shows the purchase.
Christian and Mary Gross had nine children per the census in 1880, all three boys would assist dad at one time or another in the family business.
Here is a mini bio from around 1904
His portrait.
A 1905 article in the American Carbonator and American Bottler sums it up quite nicely.
For an operation that was in business for so long I only managed to find one advertisement.
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1533-1535 N. 15th Street
St. Louis, Missouri
Christian Gross acquired a parcel of land in 1888 and started a soda water factory in St. Louis that would stay at the same location until 1948. That is 60 years. Here is a clipping that shows the purchase.
Christian and Mary Gross had nine children per the census in 1880, all three boys would assist dad at one time or another in the family business.
Here is a mini bio from around 1904
His portrait.
A 1905 article in the American Carbonator and American Bottler sums it up quite nicely.
For an operation that was in business for so long I only managed to find one advertisement.
Only 10 images allowed, bottles on a reply.