Rare soda company?

[JGUIS]

Anyone have anything on Crooksville Bottling Works, or Wetzel Bottling Works Crooksville, OH?

 

[Sam_MaineBottles]

Hi JGUIS -

The 1925 Bottlers Encyclopedia has Marion Wetzel listed as the only bottler in Crooksville at the time, no address or company name given.

-Sam

 

[JGUIS]

Thanks, my uncle has a couple of their bottles and I'd never heard of them before. I'll add a new one to my local sodas to look for.

 

[JGUIS]

Here's a couple of pics of their bottles. These bottles have set in the exact same place for about 20 years or more, but he wont get rid of them.

 

[JGUIS]

This is their early bottle(I'm guessing since it's 6oz.)

Wetzel-center, Crooksville-over, Bottling Works-under.

 

[JGUIS]

Their later(Again, guessing) 10 oz. bottle

Crooksville Bottling Works
Crooksville, OH

They dropped the Wetzel on thses bottles for some reason, maybe the company changed hands.

 

[JGUIS]

Better pic of the older one.

 

[cowseatmaize]

The 1925 Bottlers Encyclopedia

Hey Sam. I read the post referring to this book. Could it be considered as great and do I have to look for a copy? Is it all of US for 1925? I'm totally unfamiliar. Thanks.

 

[cowseatmaize]

Well, I may have bought one. The description wasn't very good as far as detail of the book. The whole title is "THE BOTTLERS AND BEVERAGE MANUFACTURERS UNIVERSAL ENCYCLOPEDIA" 1925 and 436 pages.
I just took a shot to see what it was about. Figure I can always try to resell it if I don't like it. Now I guess I just wait and see.

 

[Sam_MaineBottles]

Hi Eric -

Sounds like you got the right book, it is very hard to find one of those. I originally purchased mine for info when I was working on the 'Maine Bottlers' book a few years ago. It is a great resource when looking for bottler info from that time period - there are around 110 pages in the book with bottlers listed by state and city. There are also many ads for equipment used by the industry back then and articles written for bottlers like how to prevent your soda from getting 'ropey', etc. - pretty interesting.

Later - Sam