40 years ago I drank PBR in long-neck 16 oz. bar bottles that came in a heavy brown carton. It was cheap and fresh from a brewery in Newark, N.J. and it tasted a lot better than the PBR you could buy in a 7-11. There were deposits on the bottles long before there was a deposit law in New York and the beer distributor where I bought it demanded them back so they could be sent back to the brewery. I don't know if that was a Pabst-owned plant or a contract brewer but it closed down after an extended strike in the late 1980s.
The two brothers that ran the distributor had both worked for F. M. Schaefer years before and they lent me a box of "The Blue Book," a brewers guide book that listed every brewery in North America and some of the books went back to the 1930s. Fascinating reading; it told you where to get barrels, dispensing and brewing vessels and I learned what was involved to get a hopper car of barley delivered or finished beer taken away by box car.
OK, for some reason I thought it was a Brewery as well, makes sense if is only a sign.
Overmod charlie hebdo ... Awful House You know, there is a better one, that is used in some contexts at WHU. You do NOT want to run an Offal House...
charlie hebdo ... Awful House
You know, there is a better one, that is used in some contexts at WHU. You do NOT want to run an Offal House...
Hey! I LIKE that place!
How can you NOT like a place where you have to show a pack of cigarettes to get in?
charlie hebdo... Awful House
charlie hebdoThere was a book on A&P
Sometimes the store brands are cost-minimizing, sometimes they reflect regional differences or pride, sometimes they represent an opportunity to go higher-end with better products (see Kroger's Private Selection and 'Simple Truth' brands for example) -- things that highly remind me of how intermodal yard operators would be involved with driveaway OTR moves...
Whatever happened to Burger Chef?
Very reminiscent in a way of REA. The chain was sold, as I recall to Hardee's circa 1982, within only a few years of its maximum expansion. Hardee's converted the better locations to, well, Hardee's and took to closing the rest. Took them almost a decade and a half to kill it off.
To this day I found their kid's program more attractive than that '30s-Disneyesque swill at McDonald's. Of ocurse I also loved 'Linus the Lion-Hearted' as a kid in the '60s, so I'm not the poster child for discriminating advertising expediency from fun...
Every so often, you see companies killing off a core brand or identity for some reason or other. Burger King essentially killed Carroll's and Wetson's -- not that there was too much actual long-term loss there -- to expand its core business brand. New Coke (and Arch Deluxe etc at McDonalds) are examples where this failed in spades; Datsun is one that ... eventually ... had the desired effect. (On the other side of one of the most colossally overpriced ridiculous agency campaigns -- remember 'Built for the Human Race"? I sure do...)
Yes. Awful House, the Ptomaine (and meth) Palace.
There was a book on A&P and a TV series on Hershey, Kellogg, Heinz. Mars and Post and Mickey Ds. Whatever happened to Burger Chef?
charlie hebdoNot a Chicago brew
If a camel is a horse designed by a committee, what is a beer produced by committee? I suggest charlie hebdo already knows...
Not a Chicago brew (Milwaukee's #4, behind Schlitz, Miller Hi-life and Blatz in taste ), and in my opinion and memory, it was regarded as p**s water around Chicago back in the day.
charlie hebdo It's only a PBR sign, not a brewery.
More's the pity!
The title of this thread is in error. It's only a PBR sign, not a brewery.
Randolph Street Station (I still call it by that name) lost most of its character when Millenium Park was built over it. The South Shore tracks are now under roof and the wood platforms are long gone.
tree68It was near the current location of "Millenium Station."
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Found the shadow of the Pabst sign in a 1952 aerial photo on Historicaerials.com.
It was near the current location of "Millenium Station."
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54light15 I wonder what "Blended 33 to 1" means. I'm a beer geek, a former beer judge and home brewer but I have never heard a term like that before.
I wonder what "Blended 33 to 1" means. I'm a beer geek, a former beer judge and home brewer but I have never heard a term like that before.
An "expensive model collector"
diningcar Believe this is the IC yard near Randolph Street with Michigan Ave. on the left.
Believe this is the IC yard near Randolph Street with Michigan Ave. on the left.
Not sure which structure you meian. The Wrigley Building is white, but marble clad. I can also see the Railway Exchange (Santa Fe) Building closer to the camera. The structure in the foreground is IC-related.
The sign is for PBR, but their brewery was Milwaukee.
FYI-,
This is the Illinois Central Lakefront line and looks like they did good business with this former customer. No idea where this was in Chicago but that white cement block building in the background kind of looks familiar. I can't tell from the skyline where this is exactly.............anyone know?
https://i.etsystatic.com/14100656/r/il/eec9ff/1172352824/il_794xN.1172352824_paqq.jpg
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