bottlebugs
Well-Known Member
I've become rather adept at solving puzzles lately. I can't explain exactly why
but I recently solved a long standing question by the merging of what seemed
to be several completely unrelated origins. Together as a whole it answered
many unsolvable puzzles. You need all the pieces to get the picture. At the
height of prohibition, in 1929, the founder of America Dry, Delatour died, just
before completing his vision. The following stunned me...
I think I found the missing piece in another unfinished puzzle. What happened
to the Golden Orange Company of Canada? In Canada, it existed briefly and
used the exact bottle shape as America Dry of Canada. Hmmm...why?
In the early days of American manufacturing, copy cats were everywhere.
In order to beat out your competition to the Patent Office, American soda
bottlers rushed their product into nearby Canada to gain traction and
facilitate a patent. Lessons were learned and I took notice too. In order
to not give away the whole enchilada, I often present one whole idea,
split into many different, seeming unrelated stories. It works quite well and
safely protects and preserves the idea. Edison did exactly this. He made
new inventions by amalgamating other, seeming unrelated patents. So
there we have it: Edison, Kent and Delatour. Three seemingly unrelated
names. But are they? Here's more seeming unrelated fellows; Nicola Tesla,
John Stith Pemberton and John J. McLaughlin. All three were either copy
cats or the the originator of new ideas; DC Voltage, Coca-Cola and Canada
Dry Ginger Ale. Add to that some more great Inventors; Edison, Vernor &
Bradham (General Electric, Vernor's Ginger Ale and Pepsi-Cola) and you
almost get the picture. Or do you? New York City was eventually the home
to all. It was also home to the US Patent Office.
Golden Orange was one such piece of a puzzle. Where did it fit? Lazarus Bloom
was contracted to make a new drink, eventually known as Kik Kola. I suspect that
Delatour, the founder and owner of America Dry, also contracted a company just
down the street from Bloom called Orange Freeze. "HIT" soda was born. It was a
beverage with a HIT. HIT disappeared after getting noticed by Canadian legalities
which prevented adding caffeine (the HIT/KIK) and KIK quickly added cola flavour
and colour to its new product. I believe Golden Orange was another casualty of this
exclusively Canadian law. KIK never called itself a cola until a landmark case was
won by another cola copy cat; Pepsi-Cola.
So is this what happened to HIT? I think so. Often you just have to have all the pieces to complete the puzzle.
In 1924 Delatour Beverages entered Canada as American Dry. Not long after that, so did Golden Orange and
not long after that, HIT soda showed up. The three most popular mixers of the roaring twenties were ginger ale,
cola and orange. New York, Montreal and Miami were all hotbeds for bootlegging the booze to go with them.
The artwork of all three is haunt- tingly similar. Dee=Dee Dee Dee...
but I recently solved a long standing question by the merging of what seemed
to be several completely unrelated origins. Together as a whole it answered
many unsolvable puzzles. You need all the pieces to get the picture. At the
height of prohibition, in 1929, the founder of America Dry, Delatour died, just
before completing his vision. The following stunned me...
I think I found the missing piece in another unfinished puzzle. What happened
to the Golden Orange Company of Canada? In Canada, it existed briefly and
used the exact bottle shape as America Dry of Canada. Hmmm...why?
In the early days of American manufacturing, copy cats were everywhere.
In order to beat out your competition to the Patent Office, American soda
bottlers rushed their product into nearby Canada to gain traction and
facilitate a patent. Lessons were learned and I took notice too. In order
to not give away the whole enchilada, I often present one whole idea,
split into many different, seeming unrelated stories. It works quite well and
safely protects and preserves the idea. Edison did exactly this. He made
new inventions by amalgamating other, seeming unrelated patents. So
there we have it: Edison, Kent and Delatour. Three seemingly unrelated
names. But are they? Here's more seeming unrelated fellows; Nicola Tesla,
John Stith Pemberton and John J. McLaughlin. All three were either copy
cats or the the originator of new ideas; DC Voltage, Coca-Cola and Canada
Dry Ginger Ale. Add to that some more great Inventors; Edison, Vernor &
Bradham (General Electric, Vernor's Ginger Ale and Pepsi-Cola) and you
almost get the picture. Or do you? New York City was eventually the home
to all. It was also home to the US Patent Office.
Golden Orange was one such piece of a puzzle. Where did it fit? Lazarus Bloom
was contracted to make a new drink, eventually known as Kik Kola. I suspect that
Delatour, the founder and owner of America Dry, also contracted a company just
down the street from Bloom called Orange Freeze. "HIT" soda was born. It was a
beverage with a HIT. HIT disappeared after getting noticed by Canadian legalities
which prevented adding caffeine (the HIT/KIK) and KIK quickly added cola flavour
and colour to its new product. I believe Golden Orange was another casualty of this
exclusively Canadian law. KIK never called itself a cola until a landmark case was
won by another cola copy cat; Pepsi-Cola.
So is this what happened to HIT? I think so. Often you just have to have all the pieces to complete the puzzle.
In 1924 Delatour Beverages entered Canada as American Dry. Not long after that, so did Golden Orange and
not long after that, HIT soda showed up. The three most popular mixers of the roaring twenties were ginger ale,
cola and orange. New York, Montreal and Miami were all hotbeds for bootlegging the booze to go with them.
The artwork of all three is haunt- tingly similar. Dee=Dee Dee Dee...
