1337 Hamilton Avenue, Hamilton.
Once upon a time this was Atlantic Rug & Carpet Cleaning
Company according to my records:)
UPDATE: Tom Glover says they used to bottle RC Cola here:)
UPDATE2 : Ray adds:
rayfromvillapark said...
Mack, Tom Glover is 100% correct. This was the Royal Crown Bottling
Co. My uncle, Victor Mancuso, drove a large soda delivery truck
(called a bottler's body), for quite a few years, out of this
location. During the early 1950's, he got them to sponsor a baseball
team, I'm going to say the Babe Ruth league, but I'm not sure.
I played on the team, but I left a lot to be desired, in my
infield defensive skills. Unlike today, where you have to spend
hundreds to outfit the players, we got a maroon and yellow Royal
Crown shirt, a Maroon cap, and bats and balls. We supplied our
own gloves, and wore sneakers. Great fun!
Tom is right about the huge windows, so you could watch the
bottling process.Kerns beverages, on North Broad had the same
large windows, so you could watch them bottle that superb Red
Cream soda.George's Beverages delivered a case of Kerns to my
grandmother's house every week. They were in Hamilton Twp., on
a side street (the name escapes me at the moment), but it was in
between Newkirk and Kuser. maybe Miller Ave. They had big Dodge
11/2-2 ton trucks, I believe they were Black and White.
4 comments:
Hey Mack:
Take away those small windows, and replace them with 2 LARGE show windows, and if you were of my generation you could stand in front of that building and watch them bottle Royal Crown Cola. Once again, a blast from my now ancient past! By the way, that area is not considered Villa Park; it is in Hamilton.
Tom Glover
Hi Tom:)
I loved RC Cola:)
I will fix the location on this
and make it Hamilton, Thank You:)
Mack, Tom Glover is 100% correct. This was the Royal Crown Bottling Co. My uncle, Victor Mancuso, drove a large soda delivery truck (called a bottler's body), for quite a few years, out of this location. During the early 1950's, he got them to sponsor a baseball team, I'm going to say the Babe Ruth league, but I'm not sure. I played on the team, but I left a lot to be desired, in my infield defensive skills. Unlike today, where you have to spend hundreds to outfit the players, we got a maroon and yellow Royal Crown shirt, a Maroon cap, and bats and balls. We supplied our own gloves, and wore sneakers. Great fun!
Tom is right about the huge windows, so you could watch the bottling process.
Kerns beverages, on North Broad had the same large windows, so you could watch them bottle that superb Red Cream soda.
George's Beverages delivered a case of Kerns to my grandmother's house every week. They were in Hamilton Twp., on a side street (the name escapes me at the moment), but it was in between Newkirk and Kuser. maybe Miller Ave. They had big Dodge 11/2-2 ton trucks, I believe they were Black and White.
Great stuff Ray, I will add that
to the post:)
Georges Beverages
522 Miller Avenue
Hamilton Twp
Owners: George Henry J and
Joseph H. Marosovitz
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