Hi HISTARCHers,

Here is an update for those interested in the latest bottle information.

My two smaller e-books (Alamogordo, NM, soda industry and Otero 
County. NM, dairies) are back, this time on the SHA webpage, where, 
hopefully, they will stay.  They can be accessed through Bill Lindsey's 
Historical Bottle Webpage:

http://www.sha.org/bottle/References.htm#Reference%20Books 

The revised Chapter 5a of my El Paso soda industry e-book is linked to the 
same location.  This contains a great deal of new information and photos 
about the Houck & Dieter liquor and soda bottling works as well as some of 
the national and international brands they used.  The section on Apollinaris 
Water has quadrupled in size, and the others have also gained in girth.  The 
link above takes you to all three books.

At the same web address (scroll down a bit) are most of the articles 
published by the Bottle Research Group.  Eventually, we will add others.  Our 
latest three, published in Bottles and Extras magazine, are on the Southern 
Glass Co., Vernon (LA), California; the Owens Bottle Co. and its affiliated 
companies; the General Glass Corp.  All of these, of course, have major 
bottle, marks, and date code sections.  The General Glass article also 
contains a great deal of information about basemarks and code on liquor 
bottles.

Don't forget to keep me in mind when you publish reports with sections on 
bottles.

Bill




 
 
Bill Lockhart
Professor of Sociology
New Mexico State University
Alamogordo, NM
(575) 439-3732