Looking For Information on BIG HIT Soda

[bottlebugs]

I was amazed many years ago when I thought I had stumbled upon an early KIK bottle.
It was the same shape as the one pictured on the earliest Kik bottle sign that I had seen to
date. It was an early 1930s "BIG HIT" bottle from the USA.

Close but no cigar as I was to find out a few years later. America Dry of Canada
used the same bottle design.

So did a company called Golden Orange!

Earlier BIG HIT bottles featured a baseball player not unlike my "HIT" fountain glass.

Was this a coincidence or was there more to the story? Hope someone can help!

 

[Step Back In Time]

I'm not sure, but it's very interesting that they all used the same bottle design.

 

[bottlebugs]

thinking it was a stock catalogue item....

 

[CanadianBottles]

I'm not sure, but it's very interesting that they all used the same bottle design.

This is what almost all the smaller companies in Canada did in those days, continuing up until the 70s or so. Even ACL labels were sometimes shared between unrelated companies. It's surprising to me that in the US the small bottlers would all pay for their own unique mold designs, seems like it would have been an expensive way to do it. I guess our glass companies must have charged more for unique designs than the ones in the US.

 

[bottlebugs]

Thank you Canadian Bottle...that is what I suspected. It was the depression after all. Out of economy they must have share plenty across the borders.

 

[Step Back In Time]

This is what almost all the smaller companies in Canada did in those days, continuing up until the 70s or so. Even ACL labels were sometimes shared between unrelated companies. It's surprising to me that in the US the small bottlers would all pay for their own unique mold designs, seems like it would have been an expensive way to do it. I guess our glass companies must have charged more for unique designs than the ones in the US.

That's interesting.