Name/Title
Goetz Beer Display & Advertising Photos, c 1920Entry/Object ID
P2017.34.1Description
Goetz Beer Display & Advertising Photos, c 1920. b/w. Table Displays, unique advertising photos, and delivery truck photos. Copies from digital images made and included in Photo History File
A = Goetz Lime Rickey Advertising Display, "Talk of the Party", Bottles lined up, laying on their sides around a tilted table.
B = Goetz Country Club Special Soft Drink Booth, c. 1920. Two men behind a bar, crates of Special stacked behind. Kansas City Bottlers Convention, 1925.
C = Goetz Dwarf & Fat Man Drinking Beer Ad, Very rotund young man sipping from beer bottle; dwarf man peeking out from behind him with bottle in his hand.
D = Goetz Country Club Beer Truck, 1920's era delivery truck with wooden slat-sided bed, cases stacked inside. Man standing in front of truck with hand leaning on passenger side fender. "Drink Country Club, Nothing Better Brewed" painted on tail gate. "Country Club Beverage Co." sign attached to side of bed. Truck is parked alongside building marked "Dr. Spates Sanitarium, for the Treatment of Varicose Veins & Rheumatism". "Truck of H.W. Brown, Des Moines, IA."
E = Table display against a pleated curtain background. Cardboard cut-outs of Goetz advertising posters stand upright on table.Lexicon
Search Terms
Brewery, Goetz Brewery, Country Club BeerProvenance
Notes
Goetz Brewing Company photos (6) from scrapbook Country Club Special Beer, produced during prohibition, Country Club Beer, and Ginger Ale. Digital images copied from book. Scrapbook returned to donor, who is descendant of Goetz Family.
