THE MARION ORANGE CRUSH BOTTLING COMPANY 1921-1929

Marion Orange Crush Bottling Company is a co-partnership established on November 1, 1922 between B. Scott Sprinkle of Marion VA, and N. E. Robinson of Marion VA. They continued to operate the business in the abandoned Marion & Rye Valley Railroad depot on Railroad Avenue. They acquired the franchise to bottle Orange Crush, Lemon Crush, Lime Crush, and Grape Crush. They were also bottling Good Grape by 1925. Good Grape was a drink created by the creator of Double Cola, Charles Little, in the early 1920's.(2) In 1925 they would also start bottling Pepsi; however, Hull doesn't know why they stopped. They also branched out with a sister Orange Crush Bottling Company in Pulaski around 1927. The partnership between Sprinkle and Robinson started to fracture around the latter 1920's. This was the situation that the company was in when the partnership of Wythe Hull and James R. Shanklin, purchased the assets of the company in the last two months of 1928.(1)

Bottling Company location from 1921 till 1931

6oz "krinkle" bottle from the Marion Orange Crush Bottling Co. dated 1924.

6oz Bob-O-Link bottle from the Marion Orange Crush Bottling Co. Bob-O-Link was advertised by the Orange Crush Bottlers magazine in the 1920's, a copy of which was found with some other papers from the company, which would suggest that they knew about this particular brand. Compound that with the fact that the place where this was found near Marion was covered in these broken bottles suggests that they were indeed bottling this brand, and that they may have went the way of other Orange Crush bottlers and later bottled Good Grape in these bottles.

Sales receipt from Marion Orange Crush Bottling Co. from June 30, 1925 and an ad from May 26, 1922

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