Retro NOS 2000s Canada Dry Bottle Cap 🥤 Crown Logo | Soda History

Why a Crown on Canada Dry? 🥤 Retro NOS 2000s Bottle Cap

Size: 1 1/4"

👑 A Retro New Old Stock (NOS) Canada Dry bottle cap 🥤 from the 2000s, unused and never crimped, so it measures 1 1/4" across like every uncrimped crown. Deep green with the famous badge in silver: a crown on top, a shield with the map grid on it, SINCE 1904 across the top of the shield and CANADA DRY® across the middle. Twist Off runs around the skirt, and inside it's plastic-lined. That silver shield with Since 1904 arched over the name is the badge Canada Dry used in the 2000s, so that's when this one was printed.

🏭 These caps are old stock from Dr. Pepper Bottling Co. of West Jefferson, North Carolina, up in the Blue Ridge in Ashe County, a family bottler that H.R. Vannoy started in 1937 and that carried Canada Dry right alongside Dr Pepper. In the 1940s it ran out of the two-story brick building downtown that still wears a faded Dr. Pepper-Grapette Bottling Co. sign; the Vannoy family still owns the company, and it's still bottling today at its plant out on NC 163.

👑 Since 1904

That "Since 1904" is the year John J. McLaughlin, a Toronto pharmacist and the eldest son of carriage and car maker Robert McLaughlin, came up with his lighter "Pale Dry" ginger ale, "dry" meaning not sweet, like a dry wine. The Canada Dry name was registered in January 1907, his wife Maud gave it the slogan "The Champagne of Ginger Ales," and a map of Canada went on the label. When the company got a royal appointment to the Governor General's household, a crown went on top. The crown and shield are still on this cap a century later.

🍸 In 1923 P. D. Saylor and Associates bought the business and took it public as Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc., and Prohibition made it a staple: it covered the taste of homemade liquor so well that by 1930 Canada Dry was selling ten million bottles a year. Norton Simon bought it in 1964, Dr Pepper in 1982, Cadbury Schweppes in 1986, and today it's Keurig Dr Pepper's.

A genuine piece of American soda history 🇺🇸, ideal for collectors of vintage advertising, bottle caps, and beverage memorabilia.