Orange crush bottle

[celerycola]

Ward's Orange Crush was bottled and sold nationally for five years before the krinkly bottle was introduced. A lot of existing bottlers for Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Chero-Cola and other national brands added Orange Crush to their lineup. There are several variations of paper labels used before the krinkly bottle.

 

[celerycola]

South Boston VA bottler of Orange Crush, Pepsi-Cola, Nu-Grape, etc.

 

[sunrunner]

you are right.[]

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

I can't explain this one, but it's a Ward's Orange Crush straight-sided bottle that has a paper label showing three images of the krinkly bottles. I don't own it and do not know the date.

Bob

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Here'a a picture of the entire bottle. I do not know what's embossed on the shoulder ...

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

B66 ~

You might find these of interest. Angelfire shows a bottle similar to yours with some info, but the images sometimes take a minute to load.

Angelfire:

http://www.angelfire.com/tn/traderz/crush.html


eBay: Label pictured below at $99.99 each ...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-1920s-Wards-Orange-Crush-Chicago-IL-w-bottles-Label-Tavern-Trove-/190754783086?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c69deff6e&ssPageName=RSS:B:SHOP:US:101

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Although I have researched this to some extent by gleaning information from the following links, I am still somewhat confused and wondering ...

If Bumpa66's embossed slug-plate bottle is pre 1920, then why doesn't it have the name Ward's on it?

( As far as I know, the name Ward's was used between 1916 and 1921 and was even embossed on the first krinkly/ribbed bottles ).

Note: I acknowledge the comments regarding ... Independent Bottler / Flavor Bottle ... but I am still confused as to whether or not it was an actual Orange Crush bottle? After all, it does say "Orange Crush Bottling Co." and not "Greenville Bottling Co."

Bob

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/advertising/orange-crush

http://www.metnews.com/articles/2006/reminiscing052506.htm

http://www.angelfire.com/yt/soda/Rosman-OC-amber.html

http://www.etsy.com/listing/119446397/vintage-very-rare-orange-crush-bottle?ref=exp_listing

http://clubout.voila.net/bouteille_crush.htm

 

[zecritr]

Metropolitan News-Enterprise

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Page 15

REMINISCING (Column)

Orange Crush—a Soda Pop Developed in Los Angeles

By ROGER M. GRACE

Coke was invented in Atlanta, Georgia; Pepsi in New Bern, North Carolina; Dr. Pepper in Waco, Texas; 7-Up in St. Louis, Missouri; and Vernor’s Ginger Ale in Detroit, Michigan.
Was any major soft drink first concocted in Los Angeles? Yes. Orange Crush.
Before getting to the product’s local beginnings, here’s what Cadbury-Schweppes—the British Company that now owns Orange Crush and just about every non-cola brand you can think of—says on its website:
“In 1916, Clayton J. Howell, president and founder of the Orange Crush Company, partnered with California chemist Neil C. Ward to incorporate the company. Ward, a beverage and extract chemist, perfected the process of blending ingredients to create the exclusive formula that yielded the zesty, all-natural orange flavor of Orange Crush. J.M. Thompson of Chicago is recognized as the original inventor of Orange Crush in 1906.â€
The website continues:
“C. J. Howell was not new to the soft drink business, having earlier introduced Howell’s Orange Julep. Soft drinks of the time often carried the surname of the inventor along with the product name. Howell sold the rights to use his name in conjunction with his first brand; his partner, Ward, was given the honors and Crush was first premiered as ‘Ward’s Orange Crush.’ â€
Howel (spelled with one “lâ€) did form the Orange-Crush Company (incorporated Aug. 16, 1916). A 1917 opinion of the Supreme Court of Missouri shows that he had not been the inventor of “Howel’s Orange Julepâ€; rather, he had been secretary and manager of the Jersey Creme Company and, in that capacity, oversaw the development of the drink by an employee. The name “Clayton James Howel†had been registered by the company as a trademark in connection with its product and rights to the trademark were assigned by Howel to the company.
Neil Callen Ward was a chemist who had injured an eye in an explosion. He developed the formula for Orange Crush in 1915, at the age of 34. Ward and his wife lived in an apartment on Virgil Avenue.
There may have been a J.M. Thompson who had developed an earlier product known as “Orange Crush,†but it would appear that Ward’s formulation was unique.
Widespread advertising of Ward’s Orange-Crush got underway in 1919.
An ad appearing in the summer of that year in numerous newspapers said that “[t]he process of preparing Orange-Crush was perfected in Los Angeles—in the midst of the beautiful orange groves of Southern California.â€
The ad recounted that the “almost insurmountable difficulty which had to be faced at the start was the quick deterioration of orange-juice.†It could only be preserved by keeping it at a temperature 18 degrees below the freezing point—or one to three degrees above that point if the juice were sterilized, ruining the flavor, according to the ad.
The answer was found to be use of “tiny, fragrant globules of oil artfully concealed in minute cells†in the outer skin of the orange, which contained the “dominant flavor†of the juice.
The ad continued:
“It was only after many patient years of experimenting that the exclusive process, whereby the delicately flavored globules of oil are successfully introduced into the drink, was achieved. The discovery and perfection of this remarkable process was accomplished by N.C. Ward, a soft-drink chemist of national repute. The process is known and used only by Orange-Crush Co. It is the presence of these minute and delicious particles of oil, distributed by the Ward process uniformly throughout the drink which gives the inimitable flavor and the fruit-cloudy appearance to Orange-Crush.â€
While the company was headquartered in Chicago, its laboratories were in Los Angeles.
Initially, there was no orange juice in the beverage—only the oil from the skins. But by 1921, juice was added to Orange Crush (as well as to the newer beverages, Lemon Crush and Lime Crush).
A 1924 decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia listed what was contained in the Orange Crush bottles:
“A compound prepared from oil of orange, orange juice, citric acid and purest sugar syrup. Colored with harmless food colors.â€
Today, by contrast, labels read:
“Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup and/or Sugar, Citric Acid, Sodium Benzoate (Preservative), Gum Acacia, Natural Flavors, Glycrol Ester of Wood Rosin, Yellow 6, Salt, Brominated Vegetable Oil, Red 40.â€
Wood rosin, but no mention of orange juice.

 

[zecritr]

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[morbious_fod]

ORIGINAL: SODAPOPBOB

Although I have researched this to some extent by gleaning information from the following links, I am still somewhat confused and wondering ...

If Bumpa66's embossed slug-plate bottle is pre 1920, then why doesn't it have the name Ward's on it?

( As far as I know, the name Ward's was used between 1916 and 1921 and was even embossed on the first krinkly/ribbed bottles ).

Note: I acknowledge the comments regarding ... Independent Bottler / Flavor Bottle ... but I am still confused as to whether or not it was an actual Orange Crush bottle? After all, it does say "Orange Crush Bottling Co." and not "Greenville Bottling Co."

Bob

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/advertising/orange-crush

http://www.metnews.com/articles/2006/reminiscing052506.htm

http://www.angelfire.com/yt/soda/Rosman-OC-amber.html

http://www.etsy.com/listing/119446397/vintage-very-rare-orange-crush-bottle?ref=exp_listing

http://clubout.voila.net/bouteille_crush.htm

Because it is a bottler created slug plate bottle not an Orange Crush company bottle. The Wards would have been on the paper label. The information on the bottle was just to inform the customer/retailer who to return the bottle to.