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.
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Mack: Georges Beverages was on Miller Ave. I lived in the apartments next door to the store back in the early 70's.
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