"Wishing Well Ginger Ale" Bottle
DimensionsOverall: 29 x 9 cm
Credit LineGift of Dr. J. Malcolm Smith, London, Ontario, 2006.
Object number2006.011.015
Label TextThis Wishing Well ginger ale bottle features a screw cap. Now, consumers could replace the cap after opening and save some of the drink for later. Screw caps dominated by the mid-1920s because industry-wide standards had been established for the external threads and metal caps. This bottle’s paper label demonstrates that National Dry had rebranded its Wishing Well ginger ale. Were they trying to boost sales or respond to changing times? About 1932, Londoner Park Manross and two others purchased Alfred Tune’s assets and formed National Dry. They made their beverages from water from a spring near Komoka along the Thames River. Alfred Tune had at first worked with his father James Tune at the London Soda Works before branching out on his own.
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