FOX DRINKARD BEVERAGES

Fox Drinkard Beverages first shows up between 1927 and 1929 at 200 Front Street with Clarence H. "Fox" Drinkard as proprietor, he is bottling Cascade Ginger Ale. Fox Drinkard is also listed in the 1929 city directory as branch manager of the Nehi Bottling Company of Bristol, TN. By 1930-31 Fox Drinkard has moved to the corner of Piedmont Ave. and Highland, only to move to 216 Piedmont Ave. by 1934 where he would remain until between 1938 and 1939. Clearance "Fox" Drinkard would also open the Bristol Service Station at 225 Piedmont Avenue by 1934; however, he would sell it by 1938 and would later become the Post Master of Bristol, VA.

The first location at 200 Front Street (now Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd).

Fox Drinkard Beverages second location at the corner of Piedmont Avenue and Highland Avenue as it stands today

This is 216 Piedmont Avenue as it is today, I doubt the building is original.

7oz Cascade Ginger Ale bottle dated 1929. Having been dug up in the Bristol area one wonders if this is a bottle from Fox Drinkard as they are known to be bottling the brand in the late 1920's into the 1930's.

This cardboard sign shows what the label might have looked like.

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