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Title
Clicquot Club Sign
Subject
Business
Description
This sign was salvaged from part of the Almanaris building. The site went on to house cheese production and storage, and later RTE Company.
Cliquot Club was a nationally franchised beverage company, with a trademark Eskimo drinking a bottle of pop. While it only survived a few years, Cliquot is part of a longer history of water and soda businesses at 1800 E. North St. The site was opened first as Schock’s Brewery and beer garden, and then became the site for the Almanaris Spring company owned by the Powers family. The Powers family sold the business to James Bremner in 1940, and he changed the name to the Waukesha Bond Beverage Company. One of the products was called “Bondy” a 7 oz. bottle of soda water. Cliquot Club bought out the company, but only operated a few years before Waukeha’s Bon-Ton Beverage Corporation obtained it.
Many of Waukesha’s springs and beverage companies experienced similar acquisitions and mergers during the 20th century. Ultimately national beverage companies became too large for Waukesha’s once thriving companies to compete with.
Donor: John Schoenknecht
Adopt an Artifact Sponsor: Greenfire
Cliquot Club was a nationally franchised beverage company, with a trademark Eskimo drinking a bottle of pop. While it only survived a few years, Cliquot is part of a longer history of water and soda businesses at 1800 E. North St. The site was opened first as Schock’s Brewery and beer garden, and then became the site for the Almanaris Spring company owned by the Powers family. The Powers family sold the business to James Bremner in 1940, and he changed the name to the Waukesha Bond Beverage Company. One of the products was called “Bondy” a 7 oz. bottle of soda water. Cliquot Club bought out the company, but only operated a few years before Waukeha’s Bon-Ton Beverage Corporation obtained it.
Many of Waukesha’s springs and beverage companies experienced similar acquisitions and mergers during the 20th century. Ultimately national beverage companies became too large for Waukesha’s once thriving companies to compete with.
Donor: John Schoenknecht
Adopt an Artifact Sponsor: Greenfire
Publisher
Waukesha County Historical Society & Museum
Date
1945-1948
Rights
Waukesha County Historical Society & Museum