Here's something you don't see every day Tumwater #900

Started by CincyDavid, February 01, 2023, 12:06:59 AM

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CincyDavid

#15
I'm right there with ya, hate the sound of my voice.  I work in a call center and have to listen to agents' calls all day, and they all hate listening to their own calls.

Shellbelly

Some tutorials use text and point with their fingers or use "tools".  Seems like more production work, but some are very informative and helpful.  The finished videos are more efficient but the music is usually annoying. 
"Little boy,  you can get glad in the same pants you just got mad in."  (My Momma)
"You shot it boy, you're gonna clean it and eat it".  (My Dad)

Brewcrafter



Japanese trade reels generally had these foil labels because it was quicker, easier, and cheaper to procure the reels from a known manufacturer —- and just put a label on them that sounded like an American name we recognize.

Forget which Beer company had Tumwater in their advertising?

Olympia, Hamm's?

Best, Fred
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Leave it to the resident Beer Guy.  Tumwater was home to the Olympia Brewery, photos attached of both the Brewery and the adjacent Tumwater Falls that were their water source that I took on my PacNW trip with the family last summer. Beautiful building, unfortunately overrun  with "Urban Campers" and having suffered a few fires because of it - but when I was there I was led to believe the city really wanted to work on preserving the site for its historical importance.  The river itself has salmon ladders skirting the falls, and leads up to a hatchery that is about maybe 1/4 mile above the remains of the old brewery.  If you can find a copy of the logo you can see it the center of it a rendition of the waterfall.  Since the water they used in the brewing process was sourced locally, they also marketed "artesian spring water" and had an ad campaign featuring mythical creatures with the tag line "I know an Artesian, well".  Much like our fishing industry, my industry has seen lots of consolidation and takeover in the decades - Olympia is currently owned by Pabst (which of itself is owned by private equity investors) and as I understand it the brand is on hiatus, but hopefully someday will return.


xjchad

Husband, Father, Fisherman

CincyDavid

Now I want a Tumwater 860, just to say I have the "whole set".

PacRat


happyhooker

Super-nice post; lots of good reading.  Oly was my brew of choice away back when; even though it's -6 here tonight (MN), I could go for a cold one right now.  No sign of an Oly in years. :(

Frank

Brewcrafter

That's a great photo of the logo, I had forgotten about the Lucky Horseshoe.  Looking forward to when David corners the market and shares photos of his complete set of Tumwater reels, it's so cool to see so many of these neat old reels that used the marketing of the times (I think) to try and gain traction in the American market. Back then Tumwater was probably recognized, today we have different social references.  - john

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CincyDavid

#24
John, guess if I visit enough garage sales or estate sales around North Port and Punta Gorda I may find other oddball reels and perhaps more Tumwater reels.  The guy I bought it from was originally from PA but I didn't think to ask where he had gotten it. I'm trying to accumulate "sets" of reels, 2 or 3 green South Bend 700 series for instance, 2 or 3 green Heddon, a couple gold and brown Heddon, etc. in different sizes.

I remember seeing ads for Olympia but don't think I've ever tasted it.  Hamm's had that bear as I recall. We of course had Hudepohl,  Schoenling, Wiedemann and a ton of other breweries in Cincinnati and N Ky, many of which never came back after prohibition. 

happyhooker

Back in the '60s, they had a baseball game of the week on every Saturday morning.  Pre-cable TV, of course.  Dizzy Dean, Peewee Reese and I forget all who else.  Had "time out for Falstaff" ads; why I remember that, I don't know, except, as kids we always ran around saying "time out for Falstaff".


Frank

handi2

I remember that show

The had a Falstaf brewery in Pensacola, FL
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Midway Tommy

I grew up a mile from the Falstaff Brewery in Omaha. Most local people considered it pretty bland & blah in comparison to Bud, Schlitz, Hamm's & Storz. Most thought of it in the same lane as Pabst.
Love those open face spinning reels! (Especially ABU & ABU/Zebco Cardinals)

Tommy D (ORCA), NE



Favorite Activity? ............... In our boat fishing
RELAXING w/ MY BEST FRIEND (My wife Bonnie)

happyhooker

I actually worked in a brewery in Phoenix for part of one summer in the early '70s.  The work was dirty & hard, but the pay was good (Teamsters Union; princely sum then of $4.38/hr) and the fringes (all the beer you wanted, but don't get loaded on the job) were the best.  I believe the parent company was Carling, probably better known in Canada than US.  We brewed A-1 Beer and a few others, including something called "Dutch Treat", which I don't believe I ever had the courage to try.

Frank

CincyDavid

#29
Pretty sure Falstaff was a Griesedieck Brewery product out of St Louis.  There was even a Griesedieck Residence Hall at St Louis U.  They were a big brewery at one time.  I imagine they had regional breweries in different parts of the country.