{"product_id":"canada-dry-bottle-cap-prohibition-staple-iconic-crown-design","title":"Retro NOS 2000s Canada Dry Bottle Cap 🥤 Crown Logo | Soda History","description":"\u003ch2\u003eWhy a Crown on Canada Dry? 🥤 Retro NOS 2000s Bottle Cap\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 1\/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\/gAfdY5G-XSE\" 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\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e👑 A \u003cstrong\u003eRetro New Old Stock (NOS) Canada Dry bottle cap\u003c\/strong\u003e 🥤 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, \u003cstrong\u003eSINCE 1904\u003c\/strong\u003e across the top of the shield and \u003cstrong\u003eCANADA DRY®\u003c\/strong\u003e across the middle. \u003cem\u003eTwist Off\u003c\/em\u003e runs around the skirt, and inside it's plastic-lined. That silver shield with \u003cem\u003eSince 1904\u003c\/em\u003e arched over the name is the badge Canada Dry used in the 2000s, so that's when this one was printed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e🏭 These caps are old stock from \u003cstrong\u003eDr. Pepper Bottling Co. of West Jefferson, North Carolina\u003c\/strong\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eDr. Pepper-Grapette Bottling Co.\u003c\/em\u003e sign; the Vannoy family still owns the company, and it's still bottling today at its plant out on NC 163.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e👑 Since 1904\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThat \"Since 1904\" is the year \u003cstrong\u003eJohn J. McLaughlin\u003c\/strong\u003e, 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e🍸 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA genuine piece of \u003cstrong\u003eAmerican soda history\u003c\/strong\u003e 🇺🇸, ideal for collectors of vintage advertising, bottle caps, and beverage memorabilia.\u003c\/span\u003e\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\/vintage-canada-dry-bottle-cap-1950s-prohibition-treasures-gifts\"\u003eVintage 1950s Canada Dry Club Soda Cork Bottle Cap 🍾 NOS\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-double-cola-bottle-cap-chattanooga-tn-unique-bottler-1980s\"\u003eVintage NOS 1980s Double Cola Bottle Cap 🥤 Chattanooga, Tennessee\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/sunkist-orange-soda-bottle-cap-beautiful-cap-treasures\"\u003eRetro NOS 2000s Sunkist Orange 🍊 Soda Bottle Cap\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":47063842160872,"sku":"VAG-9076027130088","price":5.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/il_fullxfull.6709277537_ozbe.jpg?v=1785442475","url":"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/canada-dry-bottle-cap-prohibition-staple-iconic-crown-design","provider":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}