Search results

Welcome to our Antique Bottle community

Be a part of something great, join today!

Register Log in
  1. Helltown hobbleskirthound

    Front Royal, VA Coca-Cola Bottling Works 501 E Main St.

    Newspaper clippings Warren Sentinel (timelined) 11-18
  2. Helltown hobbleskirthound

    Front Royal, VA Coca-Cola Bottling Works 501 E Main St.

    Newspaper clippings Warren Sentinel (timelined) 1-10
  3. Helltown hobbleskirthound

    Front Royal, VA Coca-Cola Bottling Works 501 E Main St.

    Newspaper clippings Front Royal Record (timelined) 21-29
  4. Helltown hobbleskirthound

    Front Royal, VA Coca-Cola Bottling Works 501 E Main St.

    Newspaper clippings Front Royal Record (timelined) 11-20
  5. Helltown hobbleskirthound

    Front Royal, VA Coca-Cola Bottling Works 501 E Main St.

    Newspaper clippings Front Royal Record (timelined) 1-10
  6. Helltown hobbleskirthound

    Front Royal, VA Coca-Cola Bottling Works 501 E Main St.

    Newspaper advertisement clippings
  7. Helltown hobbleskirthound

    Front Royal, VA Coca-Cola Bottling Works 501 E Main St.

    The matching Soda Water bottles embossed "Coca-Cola" on the bottles and caps from Front Royal, VA. I've only found two other sodas to be bottled there so far, Indian Rock Ginger Ale and Ward's Orange Crush. It's presumed that these were bottled in Soda Water bottles.
  8. Helltown hobbleskirthound

    Front Royal, VA Coca-Cola Bottling Works 501 E Main St.

    The bottles patented dated 1915 are Olive in 1924, Blue in 1925, Green in 1926 and Clear in 1927. The bottles patented dated 1923 (Christmas Cokes) are a Blue/Green for 1929. In the 3rd picture you can see the gradience of the color lined up according to date left to right. Bill Porter rates...
  9. Helltown hobbleskirthound

    Front Royal, VA Coca-Cola Bottling Works 501 E Main St.

    The bottles are very interesting, with 5 distinct colors and 2 bottle manufactures. The Graham Glass Co. Evansville plant out of Evansville, Indiana (EG24-G29) and the Chattanooga Glass Company out of Tennessee in 1927 (Chatt '27). Both are clearly marked on the heel of every bottle. I have...
  10. Helltown hobbleskirthound

    Front Royal, VA Coca-Cola Bottling Works 501 E Main St.

    There was also a mural painted in town, it's a common misconception that this was the bottling plant. It was not, it's just one of the talest buildings in town.
  11. Helltown hobbleskirthound

    Front Royal, VA Coca-Cola Bottling Works 501 E Main St.

    The Front Royal Coca-Cola bottling plant bottled Coke between August, 1922 and November, 1929. Sometime in the mid 1920's it was purchased by the Central Bottling Company and was believed to been used for storage not bottling after 1929. In the 1960's it moved to another storage location on...
  12. Helltown hobbleskirthound

    Front Royal, VA Coca-Cola Bottling Works 501 E Main St.

    On November, 24 1922 Front Royal's east end of Main St. was burned down in a horrible fire completely destroying the newly built brick building of the Coca-Cola bottling works. Luckily Mr. Samms of Stanton (proprietor of the Coca-Cola bottling works) was able to retrieve most of the equipment...
  13. Helltown hobbleskirthound

    Front Royal, VA Coca-Cola Bottling Works 501 E Main St.

    A year later in August of 1922, in the back of the Updike Ford dealership on Main St. was a new brick building being erected for the Coca-Cola bottling plant and their young manager the son of C.H.Simpson, Samuel C. Simpson. It's estimated they opened there doors in late August of 1922. By...
  14. Helltown hobbleskirthound

    Front Royal, VA Coca-Cola Bottling Works 501 E Main St.

    There were already a few bottling works here in town as of July, 1921. Christo-Cola since 1918 with their distinct onion bottle and the Crystal Springs Bottling Co. out of Luray, VA bottling Orange Squeeze and Bubble-Up in a straight sided, slug plate bottle. Crystal Springs was set up in the...
  15. Helltown hobbleskirthound

    Front Royal, VA Coca-Cola Bottling Works 501 E Main St.

    Hello everybody, I wanted to start a thread with everything I know about the local Coca-Cola Bottling Works here in our town of Front Royal, Virginia.

Latest posts

Members online

Total: 575 (members: 5, guests: 570)

Latest threads

Forum statistics

Threads
83,999
Messages
747,341
Members
25,082
Latest member
Kellan6191979

Share this page

Top