BRISTOL,TENN-VA COLLECTIBLE BOTTLES & HISTORY

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BRISTOL - Whiskey Dealers (pre 1916)
E.GOUGE - DISTILLER (3pgs)
Can A E.Gouge Bottle Talk?
BRISTOL - Whiskey Trivia (2pgs)
BRISTOL - Whiskey Bottles (5pgs)
BRISTOL - Whiskey Jugs
BRISTOL - Whiskey Mini Jugs
*BRISTOL - Whiskey "Go-Withs"
BRISTOL - Shotglasses- VanBrocklin Collection
BRISTOL WINE & LIQUOR CO.
SOUTHERN WINE & LIQUOR CO
Cobalt KING'S LIQUOR: Fact or Fancy??
BRISTOL - Drug & Patent Medicine Cos. (to 1923) (2pgs)
APPLE BRANDY BITTERS - GOODSON,VA.
DR. JAMES A. DICKEY & CAM ANDERSON - BRISTOL Druggists
J.L.WOOD DRUG CO. of BRISTOL
C.F.HAGAN & the CIN-CO-LERY CO
JOHN R. DICKEY - BRISTOL Druggist (2pgs)
ANDREWS M'F'G CO. of BRISTOL (2pgs)
MYSTIC WINE OF LIFE CO. of BRISTOL
BRISTOL - Drug Store & Medicines (3pgs)
BRISTOL - Bottling Companies
*BRISTOL - Dixie Bottling Works
pre-1915 BRISTOL COCA-COLAS
BRISTOL - Soda Bottles
BRISTOL - Dairies
*BRISTOL - Milk Bottles (2pgs)
*Misc. Bottles &"Go-Withs"(2pgs)
WHO was WHO in Early Bristol? (2pgs)
Do Intact Examples Exist??
* NEW "FINDS"
Early Pictures Around Bristol
L. GERSTLE / BLUFF CITY,TENN.
BLOUNTVILLE, TENN.
*JOHNSON CITY,TENN.
* List of Known Johnson City Bottles
GREENEVILLE, TENN.
E.TN Saloon Owners
Other E.TN Bottles (2pgs).
SWVA Whiskey Distillers (2pgs)
SWVA Hutchinsons
ABINGDON, VA. - Bits'n'Pieces
DAMASCUS VA. BOTTLING WORKS
** SW VA. Bottles (2pgs)
Local POTTERY
WASHINGTON COUNTY,VA. POTTERY
Where Are Old Bottles ?
Digging
The ROBERT PRESTON House Dig
Recent Bristol Events
BRISTOL - Bottle & Jug Display
About Me
* Winds of Change
*In Search of COL. JAMES KING'S IRON WORKS
Products of Local IRON WORKS
The CHIMNEY
Clifton Heights & The Chimney
The CISTERN & The IRON DOORS
The QUARRY CAVE, STONE "SHED" - 2nd IRON DOOR
Hunting OLD MILLS
*WHITE'S MILL
The Star House & Mill
Graham-Mock Mill
DeBusk-Ebbing Spring Roller Mill
DeBusk - Widener's Mill
Holston - Gobble - Lilly Mill
Love's - Wilkinson Mill
Vails Mill
More Mills
MILLSTONES
Bristol,Tenn-Va Bottle Club
Bottles etc. For Sale

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DISTILLERY MATTER TO BE SETTLED IN MAY
(21January 1912)
 
     The question of whether or not the distilleries of E. E. Gouge & Company, located in this city, will be permitted to continue indefinitely under the bond given by the Company some months ago, following the seizure of the distillery by Deputy Revenue Collectors Bowers & Pritchard, will be determined during the May term of the Federal Court at Abingdon. The defendant Company has been summoned to appear in court at the May term and show cause , if any, why the property should not be taken by the government in accordance with the seizure, when it was alleged that the Company had violated the Internal revenue Laws in several particulars.
     Those who are summoned as witnesses in the case are: E.E. Gouge, W.T. Sams, W.H. Smith, J.P. Young, W.H. Crowell, M.R Miller, and Gordon Aronhime.
     The Cpmpany has had its plant in operation ever since it was permitted to rebond by Judge Henry C. McDowell.
     The property is all being held subject to an attachment pending a final hearing in the case.

 Court Grants Beer License 
(12Dec 1912)
    The Martin Lynch Co. Inc. applied to the Corporation Court  on Bristol, Va. Monday for a malt liquor license. The license was granted. The annual tax is $1000.00 per year. The only other license of that kind is held by Heller Bros. , which recently bought the malt liquor agency of Jere Bunting.
 
 
 
And Still They Come
(April 1914)
     Five years ago the Bristol Herald Courier closed its advertising columns to the whiskey trade. It was one of the first newspapers in the country to take this step, but since that time scores of newspapers, large and small, have done likewise. And still they come. The latest newspaper to bar whiskey advertising from its columns is the Chicago Record-Herald.

During Prohibition, Bristol was a rich market for bootleg liquor, distilled corn and some foreign liquors smuggled in. One ingenious bootlegger brought his goods in gallon glass bottles painted white, to give the impression they contained buttermilk. ( He did market a little buttermilk.)
 
During Prohibition one could only obtain whiskey two ways: illegally or via a written Doctor's prescription. Thousands were issued at so much per. Reportedly the "rag-tag" of the medical profession went into the indiscriminate sale of prescriptions and the drug stores did a landslide business. One Abingdon business got into the business so deep, it kept a nondescript but licensed doctor on duty with a desk in the store to write whiskey prescriptions.There was generally a waiting line of persons whose medical need for alcohol could be determined by a mere glance.

 After the Repeal of Prohibition in 1933, a liquor store was opened in Bristol,VA. 
       Mack Frazier, newly appointed head of the Virginia ABC Board, established a new liquor store in front of J.D. Faucette's store on State St.  The newly opened store in no time built up the largest volume of sales of any store in the Sate of Va.
Faucette, a prominent Bristol leader of the Prohibition cause and a strong opponent of the sale of liquor even by the State, took the location of the liquor store "in his front door" as a personal affront. He brought in the fire-eating evangelist, Dan Graham and established him in a large tent to start a campaign to vote out the liquor store.(** The Law stated that a store could be voted out within 6 months of opening).
The election was called by a petition signed by over 50% of qualified voters. And it was a walk away for those who opposed the store. It was swept out of business by an overwhelming majority.
Some said that if the liquor store had been located in a less conspicuous location, ( other than across from Faucette's), it may have remained in operation.
Meanwhile, the Abingdon,VA. store continued to operate and has been one of the highest in sales in the liquor store system for many years.
** Years before ( 1907-1909) when both Bristols went "Dry", Abingdon adopted a Dispensary System and garnered hundreds of thousands of dollars in retail liquor profits for the town coffers.

(*) "Whiskey Helped Build Bristol "
     **I was quoted as having said this in a 1995 newspaper article.
         View the Census figures below:
1880...Bristol,VA. 1562   Bristol,Tenn. 1647
1890...Bristol,VA.  2902  Bristol,Tenn.  3342
1900...Bristol,VA. 4579   Bristol,Tenn.  5271
1904...Combined populations of both Bristols ...15,000
1910...Bristol,VA. 6247   Bristol,Tenn.  7148
1920...Bristol,VA. 6729   No figures for Bristol,Tenn. (yet)
 
Both Bristols "Dry" 1907-09
Bristol,VA. "Wet" 1909 - 1916
National Prohibition  1916
 
From 1880 to 1910, both Bristols populations increased by thousands.
From 1910 -20....Bristol,Va.'s only increased by a few hundred.

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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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