Seventy years ago, Lorain had a facility on the east side that bottled Canada Dry Ginger Ale. So it's not surprising to see Lorain Journal ads for the fizzy concoction like the one above, which appeared in the paper on April 26, 1951.
My blog entry about the Canada Dry bottling plant at 1251 Colorado Avenue in Lorain continues to be the second most-visited post since the blog began in 2009. Here's the link to that 2013 post that has had more than 27,000 views.
I’ve made several pleas over the years trying to find out just what brought visitors to that post. I’ve come to the conclusion that it was Mr. James R. Edwards, mentioned in the post as the well-known owner/operator of the Corner Store (where he sold and repaired model trains) at the former bottling location.
But getting back to the 1951 ad.
It’s always nice to see old pop bottles from the days when they had the graphics printed on them, and they could be returned for a deposit. It was a much more environmentally friendly system than what we have now. (Plus it gave those of us who went looking for old pop bottles in fields a little pocket change, after we washed the mud out of them and returned them.)
The Canada Dry bottles were especially attractive, with the map of Canada and the regal graphics. Here’s one from the early 1950s, similar to the ones in the Journal ad.
