Forensic Analysis Techniques For Kik Kola

[bottlebugs]

I have decided to summarize my theory based on new data arriving
almost daily from members of this site. Kudos to all that have pushed
me in the right direction. All dates are approximate but close.

1790s AJ Delatour arrives in NYC with family formulas for fruit cordials
1808 AJ Delatour sells flavoured soda waters on Wall Street NYC
1850s AJ Delatour Jr. and brothers take over family business in NYC
1850s Hannah (widow AJ Delatour) moves to NJ syrups for sons NYC
1870s Koca-Kola type beverages from France in the form of Vin Mariana
1884 Benjamin Kent starts selling Kent's Coca-Cola
1885 Pemberton sells French Wine Coca in Columbus, GA
1885 Pemberton sells cocaine and cola based beverages in Auburn, GA
1886 Pemberton invents Coca-Cola by removing wine
1891 Approx date of Asa Candler's purchase of Coca-Cola
1890s Candler starts suing "Coca-Cola" copycats
1900 Benjamin Kent stops using name Coca-Cola
1905 business sold to Schuler using Delatour as a brand name, NYC
1910s Grandson of AJ Delatour fails ladies hats and starts bottling soda
1911 origin of Kik Kola according to Miami newspaper's intro Kik in 1941
1920s Delatour supplying concentrate to Montreal bottler or vice versa
1924 registers Statue of Liberty image on Ginger Ale Label
1926 Lazarus Bloom sodas bottled by America Dry Corp.
1930 Delatour dies, ending family involvement in soda business
1930 Kik Company attempts to register product in Canada
1931 America Dry of Canada formed.
1930s Kik bottled by Bloom under authority of America Dry of Canada.
1935 Kik registered in Canada
1936 Kik Kola registered in NYC
1945 Kik bought by Orange Crush using the word cola for the first time.

 

[bottlebugs]

So a short conclusion is drawn, approximating the reality. A profile if you would.

An ambitious immigrant arrives from France with his family's cordial recipes, and takes over an existing soda business on Wall Street. It becomes a great success. His sons carry on the legacy with the help of their widowed mother. The business is sold because no grandchildren are interested in continuing the legacy. One of the grandchildren fails to make his woman's hat business a go. The frilly, feathery hats of the Victorian era were replaced with Gibson Girl fashions. Hats fall out of fashion.

The grandson, not used to dealing with the soda business, but still dreaming of being a designer, seeks out an established business to make his soda bases using the family's famous family recipes. He gives the products marketable names and designs their labels. Orange soda became Golden Orange. His biggest seller, Delatour Ginger Ale was called America Dry.

He had a name for his kola beverage but was careful not to antagonize the Coca-Cola lawyers. I suspect he called it KIK (K/K), to conceal its true origin as a Koca/Kola beverage. By the twenties, he had branched out to Canada, in his bid to register his trade marks. After his death, one of his Canadian bottlers took credit for the name and rushed to register it, but without the backing documents was eventually refused. The originals were probably safe back in NYC. I wonder what the Golden Orange trademark looked like. Time will tell I guess.

 

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Great information

 

[bottlebugs]

Thanks to the help from many members!