Oakland Bottle

[hemihampton]

Carbonated beverages possible. There was only 1 brewery in Pontiac near that time frame of Prohibition & that was the Pontiac Brewery. It closed up in 1915 & Reopened in 1933 as Wolverine brewery. Whats odd about that is Prohibition started in 1919 in Michigan if I remember right so the brewery would of ran until 1919 & then just changed there name to Pontiac Beverage company during the 1920's like most other Breweries did back then to stay afloat during Prohibition. I do not see any info of Pontiac Brewery doing this? LEON.

 

[cowseatmaize]

The City of Pontiac is in Oakland County. One of Detroits Tri-Counties. Only thing I know about it. LEON.


P.S. The CB probably means County Bottling or Oakland County Bottling Works.

I agree and I show 96 Branch St. in 1924 but soda is the place to go.
Wait for it.... here it goes.

 

[smoothjazz63]

Call me crazy, but what I see is "Oakland C.S. Works", meaning carbonated soda works. Anybody agree? That's not a "B" in my eyes....

 

[cowseatmaize]

That was the previous posters bottle. I have no idea about the last one in question.
No, your not crazy though, I saw that too. []

 

[waknaack@gmail.com]

hemihampton: The Pontiac Brewing Co. was at 36-40 Patterson Street (the street went away under a City Improvement (?) project but I know the general area and that street was maybe two blocks long and right on the side of the Clinton River. I found Albany Steam Brewery from 1870-1871 on Patterson Street (on the water also). And the local Historical Society found that Pontiac Brewing changed it's name a bit so it lived 1900-1905 and under different name Pontiac Brewery 1905-1915. They then show it moving to 555 Going Street under the name of Wolverine from 1933-1942. At that street they produced: Rhein-Brau Bock Beer 1934-1937, Wolverine Beer 1934-1943, Dark Horse Ale 1935-1941, Chief Pontiac Beer 1935-1943 and Chief Beer 1939-1943. The name Wolverine Brewing Co. shows as "readdressed to 555 Going Street.

In Pontiac there was also a company named Pontiac Bottling Works at 16-20 Perry (a long way from the river) that "might have" made the bottles (????) This is from the "Pontiac City Directory" 1902.

Learning a lot, but no closer to finding what was first put in the bottles of mine and jdunlap.

Andy

 

[waknaack@gmail.com]

The letters are C.B. for sure on my 2nd bottle. I wasn't sure if the C was C or G until I checked the C's in Pontiac, and Mich. It is a "C" for sure. So C. B. is there.

I first bottle looks like a lot of wear on the lower letters, my 2nd bottle doesn't show much wear at all. We there re-cycled ?

Eric: Where did you find the "96 Branch Street in 1924"?

Andy

 

[hemihampton]

Most likely made from that Pontiac bottling works on Perry street then a Brewery. I might dig one today as I'm going digging on Clinton River. Might already have one somewhere & forgot about it. LEON.

 

[cowseatmaize]

Are they both yours, I'm confused.[8|][8|]

Eric: Where did you find the "96 Branch Street in 1924"?

The book I have is 1925 but I figured a year to compile data. It list Oakland County Bottling Works in Pontiac Michigan at that address.

 

[waknaack@gmail.com]

Eric,

I found one under my church in Goodison (just north of Rochester, MI) and the other was found at jdunlap's Grandfather home in northern , MI

Andy

 

[cowseatmaize]

It's not a beer that's for sure and my book is prohibition era anyway.