BRISTOL - Soda Bottles

Bristol didn't have many bottling companies that survived for long, and it seems Coca-Cola had the lion' s share of the market in the early years. In one instance they bought out the less than one year old Holston Bottling Company in 1908, and thus halted the production of Koca-Nola and Dr. Pepper, along with other beverages Holston was bottling. About 1916, Pepsi-Cola established a plant here but it didn't prove to be viable for long either. Only one Hutchinson bottle and only one blob top beer bottle are currently known, both from: J.W. Waynick Steam Bottling Works.

Dixie Bottling, Rush Bottling, and Holston Bottling had seltzer bottles, but only one intact Dixie is known. The Rush seltzer bottle was yellow amber glass with acid-etched lettering. The Dixie & Holston were both clear with acid-etched letters.

cor Front & Sycamore Sts.

J W Waynick Steam Bottling Works

Hutchinson Soda BIM

J W Waynick Steam Bottling Wks blobtop beer

Diamond Bottling Wks applied crown soda

Rush Bottling Works

"tombstone" slug plates, applied crowns

Jay's Quality Beverages - DBW

DBW - Dixie Bottling Works variants

J C Layman MC Mint Cola

J C Layman KC King Cola

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Nov. 16, 1915 and Dec. 25, 1923 Bristol, Va.

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cr: Tommy Fouch

Dixie Bottling Works 75th Anniv.

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Dixie Bottling Works beer or soda

applied crown, oval slug plate

on base of some DBW (watermelon slug) bottles

Pepsi-Cola & Nehi

cr: Tommy Fouch

Cr: John Gillispie

J C Layman MC A Wyrick Spring Product

J C layman MC Mint Cola

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Pat D 105529 Bristol, Va.

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cr: Ralph Van Brocklin

Dixie Bottling Wks applied crowns

oval slug plates

Holston Bottling Co

slug circle, applied crowns

Dixie Bottling Works Coca-Cola variants

applied crowns

Jay's Quality Beverages - DBW

NOTE: center bottle circle is lower

Soda Water (center)

(l & r) Chero-Cola

Nu-Grape & Eye-Se

"Deco" sodas

KBW Kay Bottling Works

base emb Bristol Va (clear example only)

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Sources - Bibliography

i)      Library of King College, Bristol,Tenn. - Newspaper Microfilms

ii)     Bristol,TN-VA Public Library - Newspaper Microfilms &  City Directories

iii)     1904 Bristol Herald Industrial Supplement

iv)     Bristol-Goodson Industry & Resources in 1885 -W.F.Henry/Reporter

v)    Witness To An Epoch - Chas.J. Harkrader

vi)     Double Destiny   - Robert Loving

vii)    Historic Sites of Sullivan County - Muriel Spoden

viii)   Bristol Tennessee-Virginia : A History - V.N. "Bud" Phillips

ix)     Spirits & Medicinal Bottles of Bristol, Tenn.-Va.   - Charlie Barnette

x)       The Passing Years   - Bristol Historical Association

xi)      City of Bristol @ 1915

xii)     A Pictorial History - Bristol Historical Association

xiii)    Whiskey, An American Pictorial History - Oscar Getz

xiv)    Prohibition, 13 Years That Changed America - Edward Behr

xv)     The Shadow Of The Bottle - Review & Herald Publishing Co.

xvi)    Historic Sullivan - Oliver Taylor

xvii)   One Year At A Time - Bristol - 1907 - Lonnie & Kim Blevins

xviii)   Honoring Our Heritage: Faces & Places From The Past -

                       Lonnie & Kim Blevins and Roy & Carolyn Williams

xvix)   Between the States: Bristol Tennessee - Virginia During the Civil War - V.N. "Bud" Phillips

xx)      Pioneers in Paradise - Bristol, Tenn-Va. - V.N. "Bud" Phillips

xxi)     A Good Place to Live - Bristol, Tenn-Va. - V.N. "Bud" Phillips

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