{"product_id":"vintage-cream-soda-bottle-cap-hagerstown-md-beautiful-blue","title":"Vintage NOS 1960s Cream Soda Bottle Cap 🥤 Cork Lined | P.C.C.","description":"\u003ch2\u003eWho Was P.C.C.? 🥤 Vintage NOS 1960s Cream Soda Cork-Lined 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\/s_f68l5PB7c\" 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\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e🥤 A \u003cstrong\u003eVintage New Old Stock (NOS) Cream Soda bottle cap\u003c\/strong\u003e from the \u003cstrong\u003e1960s\u003c\/strong\u003e, never crimped, with its original \u003cstrong\u003ecork liner\u003c\/strong\u003e. Like every uncrimped crown it measures 1 1\/4\" across.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBold white \u003cstrong\u003eCREAM SODA\u003c\/strong\u003e on a deep royal blue, with the ingredients running around the rim: \u003cem\u003eContains sugar, water, benzoate of soda solution, citric acid, caramel color\u003c\/em\u003e. Tip it on its side and the skirt names the bottler: \u003cstrong\u003eSeven-Up Bottling Co., Hagerstown, Md.\u003c\/strong\u003e, with a little \u003cstrong\u003eP.C.C.\u003c\/strong\u003e mark on the edge. That's the crown maker: the Crowncap Collectors Society International lists P.C.C. as Penn Cork and Closures, one of the companies that stamped out caps for bottlers like this one.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThat skirt dates it, too. After \"Md.\" comes the start of the ZIP code, 217-, and ZIP codes only started on July 1, 1963, so this cap was printed after that. The cork liner puts it before plastic liners took over later in the 1960s. Caps from this same Hagerstown bottler turn up for birch beer, grapefruit drink, Double Cola and more, so it clearly bottled a whole lineup alongside 7 Up itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🚂 Hagerstown, the Hub City\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHagerstown began with \u003cstrong\u003eJonathan Hager\u003c\/strong\u003e, a German immigrant who bought land there in 1739 and founded the town in 1762 as \u003cstrong\u003eElizabethtown\u003c\/strong\u003e, after his wife. It became Hager's-Town in 1813, and Hager is remembered as the father of Washington County. So many railroads met there, the Western Maryland and the Baltimore and Ohio among them, that it earned the nickname the \u003cstrong\u003eHub City\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Civil War came right to its door. Antietam, the bloodiest single day in American history, was fought just down the road, and in 1864 Confederate General John McCausland rode in and held the town for ransom: $20,000 and a load of clothing. The story goes that General Jubal Early had meant to ask for $200,000 and somebody dropped a zero. Chambersburg, just over the Pennsylvania line, wasn't so lucky: McCausland asked it for $500,000 that same month, and when the town couldn't pay he burned it on July 30, 1864. Later, Hagerstown built airplanes, too, and Fairchild Aircraft made parts there until 1984.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA nice piece of \u003cstrong\u003eAmerican soda history\u003c\/strong\u003e 🇺🇸 from a Maryland bottler, for anybody who collects bottle caps, vintage advertising or soda memorabilia. Once these last ones are gone, they'll be very difficult to acquire. 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