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Beer In Ads #1732: Home Of Gold Medal Beer

November 17, 2015 By Jay Brooks


Tuesday’s ad is for Stegmaier Brewing Co., from between 1933-1945. The “Home of Gold Medal Beer” was Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. I love these grand illustrations of breweries, testaments to industrialization, this one was a postcard. I’m not sure why there’s a passenger train chugging by, maybe that’s how the brewery executives commute to and from work?

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Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, History, Pennsylvania



Comments

  1. Beerman49 says

    November 19, 2015 at 1:47 am

    Certainly plausible for that time – Pennsylvania RR was running many trains then (one of the primary ways to get to NYC). Think Penn Station (underground, 31st-34th St btwn 7th & 8th Aves) in NYC, atop which sits Madison Square Garden. Hotel Pennsylvania is across the street (corner of 34th & 7th); my parents & I stayed there in 1965 (was the Statler then; here’s a wiki link to its history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Pennsylvania

    Also – notice the siding w/the 2 boxcars (which likely had delivered bottles & other supplies).

    Great ad for a presumably defunct “local”.

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