Do you remember
Wild West Firewater?
I've got to admit, I'd never heard of this soft drink until I saw it mentioned in Allen W. Ashbolt's reminisce about his father's company, World Trade Inc., and the various soft drinks it produced in Lorain.
I found a little bit of information about the brand online on one of those trademark websites. Apparently the name was registered with the United States Patent Office in 1976.
And I was pleasantly surprised to see a Wild West Firewater can for sale on Ebay right now (
above).
As for its flavor, the can says it was a flaming red soft drink, so it must have been cherry-flavored. So I'm assuming it was positioned as a competitor to
Cherikee Red (which by the way is still available in Ohio and Pennsylvania ).
I sure like the design of the label.
4 comments:
I've been trying to find info on Wild West Firewater for a while. I remember having in the late 70's/early 80's and don't recall it being cherry but I could be wrong. If my memory serves me It was like a super spicy ginger ale. We drank it out of the can on camping trips and I had forgotten it being red but remember the can.
I think it was a strawberry cinnamon flavor, and yes it was red.
It was cinnamon-flavored (don't remember it being strawberry at all), and it was STRONG. I had it once on a camping trip back in the '70s; never again.
The flavor was similar to a cinammon cola with a general slight fruity flavor and yes it was red and had a kick to it. I found it in a little mom and pop grocery store back in 1979 for a month and bought all they had but couldn't ever get any again. To this day it is my favorite soda and I am now 64 yo.
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