Scarce WEST TENN. Soda at National Show Memphis!

[CreekWalker]

Hey guys, got to the show in Memphis at 3:30 and found a good crowd and some great bottle dealers there! Super displays, the northeast and central US dealers have the most scarce, oldest, beautifully colorful,... and HIGHEST priced bottles I've seen. Fatastic stuff, I'm talkin about! One on the local dealers just happened to have a straight side soda , I've been diggin to find for two decades, and I found it in about 5 minutes! Yes!!![] It is a WEST TENN. WHOLESALE GROCERY SS soda bottle in great condition. It was bottled in Paris, Ripley and Brownsville Tenn. in the 1920's. Short life scan, some are marked with a small town name, I have a Brownsville bottle in clear glass but only 80% complete. Never since but one example from the other two towns, and no ones selling. I will be back tomorow, as I made one and half row of dealer tables before closing. It was good to see Mike from the Memphis Diggers again, and celerycola! Although I did not have time to talk to Dennis, he has a great display of cola and other soda bottle! The photo shows the National bottle second from the left, for a guy who loves his locals , this is the bomb! The other bottle shown are a couple of rare local art deco bottles by the UNION BOTLLING CO. forerunner of the Chero Cola and RC.

 

[CreekWalker]

Ok here is the WTWG soda!

 

[CreekWalker]

This is a UNION BOTTLING CO. soda from the very small town of Ripley Tenn.

 

[CreekWalker]

The straight side UNION BOTTLING CO. is a HAPPEE (happy!?) soda, never seen one before, looks like the OJAY and SUGAR BEVERAGE bottles, it is from Memphis, and dug this week.

 

[CreekWalker]

Here is another UNION BOTTL CO. Memphis soda, a SS amber CREASANT BRAND, I dug a couple weeks ago.

 

[CreekWalker]

The next photo will show the base of the Creasant Brand.

 

[CreekWalker]

Creasant Brand base at partial eclipse this afternoon!

 

[celerycola]

I saw that bottle and left it for you.

WEST TENN. WHOLESALE GROCERY SS soda bottle

 

[beith_2005]

I had that bottle in my hand also. I wish I would have known you needed it so I could have bought it and traded it to you for that wright's hutch you have! Ha Ha.

 

[digger mcdirt]

Nice that bottle is really from Dyersburg Tenn . There may have been some from other towns but it is actually originally a Dyersburg bottle. When they tore down a building downtown there several years ago there was a ton of them under it but about 99 1/2% were busted. It comes in clear and aqua and all I have dug have been applied top never seen a machine made example. The Happ-EE is neat it also comes in aqua and clear and is 20's into 30's era. There are two others of different names from the same company that look just like it I would have to dig around to find them but I have all three styles. Matter of fact that bottle comes with no name and only for paper label I had one once it is not as heavy a bottle but looks the same I believe it is late 30's era. Nice pickup all I have dug of those WTWG were around Dyersburg and North of there. dm