Name/Title
Beverage BottlesEntry/Object ID
2021.07.39Description
Bottle 1: O - So Good. Full Flavor.
Bottle 2: Kist Beverages. King Kist. Kasten’s Kist Beverage. Saugatuck Michigan.
Bottle 3 and 4: Kasten’s Famous Beverages of Saugatuck. Product of Supreme Quality.Collection
Commercial businessesCataloged By
Slusar, VernLocation
* Untyped Location
Sec 4E Shelf S12Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Kasten/House's Cherry Cider Co. at Riverside Fruit FarmCreate Date
May 19, 2021Update Date
September 16, 2024
![https://www.madeinchicagomuseum.com/single-post/citrus-products-co/: Above: The former Citrus Products plant at 9420 W. River Street, Schiller Park, as it looks today. Center Photos: The “basket type retort” (top) and “pallet loading retort” provided “highly efficient” methods for bottling the company’s chocolate drinks in the early 1960s. Also pictured: the Kist and Chocolate Soldier bottles as they looked in 1963.]
Best known for its “Kist” brand of carbonated beverages, Chicago’s Citrus Products Company was in operation from 1919 to 1965, concocting the fruit flavorings for a vast network of independent distributors to mix in, bottle up, and ship out. The business—which also produced the obscure chocolate-milkish drinks “Brownie” and “Chocolate Soldier”—was ultimately purchased and absorbed by Atlanta’s Monarch Food Packers Inc., which then sold all its rights over to the Texas-based Leading Edge Brands in 1997. By 2009, the greatly diminished line of Kist Beverages had come under the ownership of Detroit’s Intrastate Distributors, Inc., and as far as we can tell, the brand is now (unofficially) extinct after a century in circulation.](https://d8e7jbdw4fu0e.cloudfront.net/4124/d3c5d050-c35f-11ee-afda-8d5b0439d47c-vUU1klH.lg@2x.jpg)