A look at some advertising items from Washington State breweries, saloons and other merchants, where they were located and what that area looks like today.
A 1/2 pint whiskey flask from T. J. Hyde 621-623 First Ave. Seattle.
O.F. Meyer was the first to open a saloon at this location in 1899. The following year it was sold to J.W. Morrison who operated there until 1904 and in turn, sold it to Hanson and Company in 1907. T.J. Hyde took over the business sometime in 1907 and operated it as a saloon until Prohibition in 1915. The possibility exists that T.J. Hyde may have been related to Alfred Hyde who operated a saloon at 115 Cherry or Samuel Hyde who had a saloon at 115 James and also the Hyde Liquor Company located at 210 Pike.
A photo of a touring car on First Ave. in Seattle with the T. J. Hyde storefront in the background (circa 1915).
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An aqua label-only beer bottle from the Star Brewery of Vancouver, Wash. (circa 1910).
The Star Brewery was a successor to one of the earliest brewing enterprises in the Washington Territory. It was originally John Muench's Vancouver Brewery, established in 1856, near Fort Vancouver. A young, immigrant brewer from Germany, Henry Weinhard, joined Muench for about six months and then went across the river to the city of Portland where he started his own brewery, but the settlement was growing too slowly, and he shut down his brewery and returned to Fort Vancouver. In 1894, the company was sold to Louis Gerlinger, who formally changed its name to the Star Brewery, and then three years later to the Star Brewery Company. Gerlinger may have been the one who introduced the "Hop Gold" brand, since its use hasn't been documented before the late 1890s. The brand was in use in Sept. 1898, when 330 cases of "Hop Gold" beer were shipped to their agent in the Philippines, on news that Commodore Dewey had destroyed the Spanish fleet in the Bay of Manila. In 1904, the Star Brewery Co. was purchased by the Northern Brewery Company, but they continued to refer to the plant as the Star Brewery, and carried on with the popular "Hop Gold Export" beer".
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A photo of the Star Brewery building located near 6th & Columbia St. in Vancouver, Wash. (circa 1908).
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A pair of etched shot glasses from the Lion Liquor Co of Seattle. Note the different phone number listed on each glass (Main 2166 vs Main 2188).
Most likely the beginning of the Hub Liquor Company was around 1907 when it was called the Hub Restaurant. At the time, George V. Kilgore and Ernest L. Flack were operating it. That same year, Harry Levin was the manager of the retail department of the Keystone Liquor Company, a wholesale liquor house in Seattle. Levin bought the Hub Restaurant in 1908 and changed its name to the Hub Liquor Company which was mainly a retail liquor outlet that dealt in family trade. It remained under Levin's care until sometime in 1914 when it closed. Beginning in 1912, Levin opened another retail store at 215 Second Avenue South (the previous location of H. Tarnow and Co.). It was named the Lion Liquor Company and was taken over the following year by his brother Edward. The Lion Liquor Company sold wines, liquors, cigars and again family trade as a specialty. The store closed in 1915 due to Prohibition.
A photo of the Smith Tower being erected in Seattle (circa 1913) with a storefront sign of the Lion Liquor Co. displayed in the bottom lefthand corner of the photo.
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The California Wine House had its beginnings as a wholesale liquor outlet in late 1900 where it was located at 1150 Pacific Avenue in Tacoma. Fred and Mrs Clare Schaeffer Williams and then later Charles V.G. Rowland were listed as proprietors and the company had additional outlets in Snohomish and South Bend. The Snohomish outlet was in operation from 1904 until 1908 and the South Bend outlet was in operation from 1912 until 1915. The Tacoma outlet remained in business until closed by Prohibition in 1915.
A postcard advertising the California Wine House located at 1150 Pacific Ave. in Tacoma (circa 1908).
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