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Beer In Ads #187: Rubsam & Horrmann

September 3, 2010 By Jay Brooks

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Friday’s ad is an odd one. It’s for the Staten Island, New York brewery Rubsam & Horrmann. Founded in 1870 in in the town of Stapleton. Piels bought them out in 1953 but closed the brewery ten years later. The ad’s scene is set in Cuba, so I’m guessing the ad is from around the time of the Spanish-American War, which was in 1898. The guy in the brown hat looks like Teddy Roosevelt and the on the right the white-haired man resembles either Buffalo Bill Cody or Mark Twain. But despite the navy parked in Havana harbor, they’re all toasting with Rubsam & Horrmann beer.

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



Comments

  1. Peter Elzer says

    September 7, 2010 at 8:18 am

    I grew up 5 miles from this brewery. I remember shooting film there after it closed. Its walking distance to the SI Ferry.

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