polar cola NY?

[twowheelfan]

a buddy of mine found this on a construction site in NYC.
Was looking for a little information.
searched here, nothing.
anyone? will keep researching the web!
thanks!
delicious refreshing
bear of a drink
bear club beverages ny

 

[RCO]

i never seen the bottle before but its super neat . i'd guess its from 40's - 50's era . its not unusal for nothing to come up online if the company was really small or only existed way back in the 40's lets say . there are some bottle books and its likely its in one of them .

have you tried to carefully clean up the bottle ? myself i'd just focus on the inside and glass and not touch the acl at all .

 

[twowheelfan]

i dont have it. i am researching it a little for a friend.
i definately will advise him re: cleaning.
I don't have any experience with ACL's and figured it was from the 40's or 50's
i just thought that maybe someone had some information. I looked at the links here on this site and the name polar is listed on one of the websites linked here,
http://www.gono.com/museum2003/plbottles%20brand%20names/pbottles%20brand%20names%203.htm#P
and a very small image of a polar cola from MA. which looks different.
http://www.gono.com/museum2003/paintedlbottles/paintedp3.htm

 

[twowheelfan]

so it might say polar club beverage ny. no info on line. is this rare? i cant believe that no one knows or has one.
i cant find anything online about polar beverages having a NY branch. epackage? you are always the one with the online skills and encyclopedic knowledge of everything from shards to well, whatever. could this be from the twenties?

 

[bottlingco]

twowheelfan,
It is not from the twenties. The ACL process was not invented until 1935. Yours appears to be from the late 1940s -1950s. I do think it is hard to find. There are likely a lot of them, but the problem is they are buried in the ground with a skyscraper over the top of them or such. Where I live, you can find bottles out on someone's property where there used to be a dump. But most of the dumps of NYC have concrete over the top of them. ~bottlingco

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so it might say polar club beverage ny. no info on line. is this rare? i cant believe that no one knows or has one.
i cant find anything online about polar beverages having a NY branch. epackage? you are always the one with the online skills and encyclopedic knowledge of everything from shards to well, whatever. could this be from the twenties?

 

[twowheelfan]

Can anyone find anything on the company?

 

[RCO]

no but i wonder if there is any other names or markings on the bottle . sometimes one name is used but there could of also been another somewhere else to identify who actually made this drink .

like as an example i have an old colony bottle and you wouldn't know it was made by orange crush until you checked the bottom and see the markings .

 

[RCO]

i actually found something that might help you in your search for information . was looking thru my pop bottle book and there was actually a compnay by the same name from Toronto , Ontario .

it was called Polar Cola co of canada limited and it only operated from 1949-1952 , it sounds like its related to the bottle he found as its exactly the same name . i'm wondering if the american company had just as short an existence .

 

[Von Kellman]

One of the lots in our auction is Polar Club. Maybe the embossing on it can give you a clearer picture of the company and your bottle. Other pictures of the bottle are here, where the bottle is for sale... http://vonkellman.hibid.com/lot/266...verage-soda-bottle/?q=soda&sort=2&ref=catalog

 

[RCO]

neat bottle , even though the post is old I still find this bottle intriguing , bottle up for auction appears to be same as one found other than its for polar club not cola