{"product_id":"antique-1930s-ca-brand-sparkling-beverages-label-thomas-wilson","title":"Antique 1930s CA Brand Sparkling Beverages Label 🥤 Thomas Wilson \u0026 Co. Rockport Massachusetts NOS","description":"\u003ch2\u003eCA Brand Sparkling Beverages Label 🥤 Thomas Wilson \u0026amp; Co., Rockport, Cape Ann, Massachusetts\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 4 3\/4\" x 4\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width:315px;margin:0 auto 20px;\"\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:177.78%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wDr9oBg-3EU\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;encrypted-media;gyroscope;picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn unused 1930s soda label: a big C and A in red medallions with a little painted scene of a rocky shoreline between them, \"BRAND Sparkling BEVERAGES,\" then \"FLAVOR DESIGNATED ON CROWN,\" \"BOTTLED UNDER STRICT HYGIENIC CONDITIONS,\" and \"PRODUCTS OF THOMAS WILSON \u0026amp; CO.\" I have a stack, so yours will look just like this one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🌊 The Little Bottler That Kept Going\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThomas Wilson started his bottling company in Rockport, Massachusetts, out on Cape Ann, in May of 1907, and began making his Twin Lights soda that same year - named for the twin lighthouses on Thacher Island, just off Rockport - the last operating twin lighthouses in the country, now a National Historic Landmark. The family kept it going for more than a century in the same spot. Thomas Wilson's great-grandson, Pierce Sears, was still turning out cases of Twin Lights on the family's old machinery - some of it older than World War II - until he died in 2021, just a week after he was handed a new book about the company.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCA Brand was the everyday line. \"Flavor designated on crown\" meant one label did for every flavor - the bottle cap told you whether it was root beer, orange or ginger ale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e📜 The Stories\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story passed around among New England soda label collectors is that \"C A\" stood for Cape Ann - and with a Rockport bottler, a rocky Cape Ann shore in the picture and a sister brand named for Cape Ann's own lighthouses, it's hard to argue. Local legend also has it that Thomas Wilson himself insisted on the Cape Ann scene as a mark of quality. And don't confuse him with Chicago's Thomas E. Wilson of the meatpacking Wilson \u0026amp; Co. - this Thomas Wilson was strictly Rockport.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLovely framed for anyone who loves Cape Ann, Rockport or old New England soda.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"relatedBlock\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🔎 More From The Vintage \u0026amp; Antique Gifts Archive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/very-rare-artesian-sarsaparilla-label-sugar-color-clinton-ma-1930s\"\u003eAntique Artesian Sarsaparilla Bottle Label 🥤 1930s M.T. Dwyer Co Clinton MA NOS Paper Well Girl Illustration\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/very-rare-artesian-birch-beer-label-sugar-color-clinton-ma-1930s\"\u003eAntique 1930s Artesian Birch Beer Bottle Label 🥤 M.T. Dwyer Co Clinton Mass, NOS Soda Advertising Lithograph Well Water Graphic\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/antique-1930s-artesian-birch-beer-sarsaparilla-labels-dwyer-clinton-mass\"\u003eAntique 1930s M. T. Dwyer Artesian Birch Beer Sarsaparilla Bottle Labels 🍺 NOS Paper Unused Clinton Massachusetts Pair\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40825625510053,"sku":"VAG-7049791766693","price":5.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/il_fullxfull.3382095547_5ln8.jpg?v=1785354799","url":"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/antique-1930s-ca-brand-sparkling-beverages-label-thomas-wilson","provider":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}