TRIPURE GINGER ALE RED PAINTED MIAMI FLORIDA VINTAGE SELTZER BOTTLE

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We live in a disposable world. Virtually the same moment a new device is introduced to the marketplace, manufacturers promote a new and better version coming out in the near future. Built in obsolescence has become the norm – but it wasn't always this way.
Back in depression era America, most people were happy to have almost any creature comfort available, and they used and reused most everything, and valued what they had. That was true of everything from diapers to soda pop. During that time period, and before, right up to the post-WWII era boom that ushered in a new and burgeoning more fickle middle class looking for new and better things, most were relatively content to own functional items that were meant to endure.
Before the advent of disposable plastic bottles and disposable aluminum cans, that clutter the landfill in the interest of convenience, decades ago, soda and seltzer bottles were made of thick glass that were meant to be used and reused to satisfy the needs of consumers, not just for the moment, but for generations to follow.
They were created in the time when people had to return thick and heavy glass bottles of soda to the stores. For convenience, since about 1860, in America, there were men and occasionally women who dispensed seltzer and soda from either places of business, sometimes known as package stores, or delivered to homes and businesses is these very heavy, but enjoyable products.
In the larger metropolitan areas seltzer bottles were generally delivered in cases of 10, in a wooden box which weighed on average 70 pounds filled. Up until the 1950s , a few diehard older seltzer man still use horses and wagons, but generally deliveryman employed special trucks set up to contain 72 cases in the bay on the bottom, and 60 cases in returnable soda on top. Major soda companies like Coke, Pepsi, 7-Up, Dr Pepper, etc., all use heavy returnable glass delivered in a wooden box. And these major soda companies ,on rare occasion , used seltzer bottles as a vessel to contain their proprietary ingredients. Seltzer bottles were used in every state in the union, and remarkable examples still survive – a testament to their enduring nature. Most seltzer bottles were the more common round ones, but fancy and more ornate examples survive. They were larger in size and more heavy, and were generally sold in wooden sixpacks.
OFFERED TODAY IS A LOVELY VINTAGE SELTZER BOTTLE FROM TRIPURE CLUB SODA BY THE MAKERS OF DELMAR DRY GINGER ALE. FROM TRIPURE PRODUCTS CO MIAMI FLA. THE ARCHAIC PHONE NUMBER OF 24128 HARKENS BACK TO THE DAYS WHEN THE MAGNIFICENT ART DECO BUILDINGS THAT ARE PRESERVED IN MIAMI WERE NEW.
I HAVE DEEP AND POWERFUL MEMORIES OF MIAMI BEACH AS A CHILD.WE WENT THERE MANY CHRISTMAS VACATIONS, AND DROVE FROM NEW YORK. I 95  WASN'T EVEN FINISHED THROUGH SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA AT THE TIME. MY MOTHER WAS MESMERIZED BY THE FACT WAITRESSES WOULD HAPPILY REFILL YOUR COFFEE AT NO EXTRA CHARGE, AND SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY WAS A STARK CONTRAST TO THE NEW YORK ATTITUTE AT THE TIME. WHEN I THINK OF GRITZ AND PEDRO AND SOUTH OF THE BORDER IN SOUTH CAROLINA, I REMEMBER  MY YOUTH. BUT OF COURSE ONCE YOU ARRIVED IN MIAMI BEACH, THE YOU'ALLS WERE GONE AND IT FELT LIKE WE WERE BACK HOME ASIDE FROM THE BEAUTIFUL WEATHER WHICH WAS IN  COMPLETE  CONTRAST TO THE WINTER WEATHER IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK- A MERE 1,350 MILES AWAY.
IN A WORLD THAT IS CHANGING EVERY SECOND,AND NOT EXACTLY FOR THE BETTER, IT IS NICE TO HAVE SOME THINGS THAT REMAIN THE SAME.
AND IT'S NICE TO HAVE MEMORIES OF PEOPLE LONG GONE BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN...
ALL AUCTIONS BELONG TO MY WIFE SELTZERLADY.
I STILL DELIVER THE SELTZER AND WILL NEVER SELL ANY OF MY BOTTLES IF YOU OF SEE ME AROUND, BUT WILL TALK TO ALMOST ANYONE ABOUT THEM.
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THESE ARE IN FABULOUS CONDITION CONSIDERING THEIR AGE AND THAT THEY'VE BEEN USED FOR GENERATIONS. WHEN YOU DELIVER THESE BOTTLES IN WOODEN CASES OF TEN WEIGHING 70 POUNDS THEY DO GET HANDLED ROUGHLY.
AND THEY DO SHOW THEIR SIGNS OF AGE BUT THAT ONLY ADDS TO THEIR AUTHENTICITY AND DESIRABILITY..
THESE BOTTLES HAVE BEEN CLEANED THOUGHLY BY MY WIFE AND THESE ARE HER AUCTIONS.
THEY ARE MEANT FOR DISPLAY AND DECORATION..
THESE ARE VINTAGE COLLECTIBLES AND WERE IN USE TILL RECENTLY..THEY ALL HAVE A LONG AND MAGNIFIENT HISTORY OF PLEASING MANY FOR GENERATIONS. THEY ARE TIME-WORN WHICH ONLY ADDS TO THEIR AUTHENTICITY AND SENSE OF CONTINUITY WITH THE PAST FOR THOSE WHO LOOK FOR THINGS THAT ARE MEANT TO BE USED FOR A MOMENT THEN DISPOSED OF JUST AS QUICKLY.
THANK YOU.
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