{"product_id":"vintage-yup-soda-bottle-cap-newfields-nh-last-bottler-left-treasures","title":"Vintage NOS Mid‑1960s YUP Soda Bottle Cap 🥤 Squamscot Beverages, Newfields NH","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRemember YUP Soda? 🥤 Vintage NOS Mid-1960s Bottle Cap, Squamscot Beverages, Newfields NH\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\/yjkIY24Y7WI\" 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🥤 \u003cstrong\u003eNew Old Stock YUP soda bottle cap\u003c\/strong\u003e from \u003cstrong\u003eSquamscot Beverages\u003c\/strong\u003e, bottled by the Conner family at \u003cstrong\u003eConner Bottling Works\u003c\/strong\u003e in \u003cstrong\u003eNewfields, New Hampshire\u003c\/strong\u003e. Mid-1960s, unused and never crimped, so it measures 1 1\/4\" across like every uncrimped crown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eYUP is Squamscot's lemon soda, and the cap has real personality: big chunky red letters with little cut-out slashes, like something off a tiki bar sign, and the ingredients printed right underneath: \u003cem\u003eCarbonated Water, Sugar, Citric Acid, Sodium Citrate, Natural and Artificial Flavors.\u003c\/em\u003e Inside, the whole crown is lined in plastic with \u003cstrong\u003eD·10\u003c\/strong\u003e pressed into it. Plastic linings like that took over from cork in the early 1960s. As one soda blogger summed up the flavor: \"Lemon, Yup, just lemon.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🍋 Squamscot, since 1863\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam H. Conner\u003c\/strong\u003e started bottling in Newfields in 1863, in the middle of the Civil War, selling a spruce \"pop beer\" he called \u003cstrong\u003eConnermade\u003c\/strong\u003e in returnable glass bottles with porcelain and wire stoppers. The Conners branched out into sodas in the 1890s. William ran the works until he died in 1911, when it put out just 4,115 cases a year. His son \u003cstrong\u003eAlfred Conner Sr.\u003c\/strong\u003e took over from 1911 to 1948, and by 1930 the label had changed to \u003cstrong\u003eSquamscot Beverages\u003c\/strong\u003e, with 14 flavors and nearly 26,000 cases a year. The story goes that during Prohibition some harder drinks got made out back, with a friendly sheriff looking the other way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1938 Alfred Sr. bought the plant's first modern bottling machine for $2,400. It was built in Baltimore, everybody calls it \u003cstrong\u003eDixie\u003c\/strong\u003e, and Dixie is still capping bottles just about every day. \u003cstrong\u003eAlfred Conner Jr.\u003c\/strong\u003e ran the works from 1948 to 1979, the years this cap comes from, and after him his son \u003cstrong\u003eTom\u003c\/strong\u003e, with Tom's son \u003cstrong\u003eDan\u003c\/strong\u003e, the fifth generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew Hampshire once had around 60 bottlers, and the Conners are the last family-owned independent one left. Dan Conner put it best: \"Never shut down, never stopped.\" Today 156 solar panels run the whole plant, and Squamscot sodas are carried in more than 600 stores. In 2026 Tom and Eileen Conner put the bottling works up for sale, with no one in the family set to carry it on, so what comes next for Squamscot is still being written.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🏞️ Newfields and the Squamscott River\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSquamscot takes its name from the \u003cstrong\u003eSquamscott River\u003c\/strong\u003e, which runs past Newfields into Great Bay. The Squamscott people called it Msquamskek, usually translated \"at the salmon place.\" Edward Hilton and his family settled Newfields in 1638 along an old Squamscott trail. It was part of Exeter, then a parish of Newmarket, and became the town of South Newmarket in 1849. In 1880 Dr. John M. Brodhead offered the town his library and $10,000 on condition that it take the name \u003cstrong\u003eNewfields\u003c\/strong\u003e, and it was incorporated under that name in 1895. Sitting at the river mouth made it a busy stop on the water route between Portsmouth, Dover, Durham, Exeter and the other Great Bay towns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n🧢 New Old Stock (unused) YUP lemon soda bottle cap, never crimped\u003cbr\u003e\n🏭 Squamscot Beverages, Conner Bottling Works, Newfields, New Hampshire\u003cbr\u003e\n📏 1 1\/4\" across\u003cbr\u003e\n⚙️ Plastic-lined, D·10 pressed inside\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-punch-cork-bottle-cap-philadelphia-pa-1950s-treasures-gifts\"\u003eVintage 1950s PUNCH Soda Bottle Cap 🥤 Cork-Lined NOS Mid-Century Americana\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-1970s-orange-soda-bottle-cap-uncommon-americana-memorabilia-treasures\"\u003eVintage NOS 1970s Orange Soda Bottle Cap 🍊 Americana Memorabilia\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/dads-cream-soda-bottle-cap-chicago-il-jasper-1980s-treasures\"\u003eRetro NOS Dad’s Old Fashioned Cream Soda Bottle Cap 🥤 Chicago IL • Jasper IN\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":44421086347496,"sku":"VAG-8187960295656","price":5.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/il_fullxfull.4851841693_qttn.jpg?v=1785360121","url":"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-yup-soda-bottle-cap-newfields-nh-last-bottler-left-treasures","provider":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}