Vintage 1920's Porcelain Knight Fountain Co. Ice Cream Syrup Container Jar Ladel

Description: All sales final. Look at pictures for condition and measurements. Other items listed. Great Christmas present. Vintage 1920's Porcelain Knight Fountain Co. Ice Cream Syrup Container Jar Ladel A great vintage piece of soda fountain history. This porcelain syrup container has the original lid that was used for the special syrup and was made by Knight Soda Fountain Co. The bottom is stamped with the makers name and "700 and K". History Stanley Knight left his job as a salesman with the Liquid Carbonic company sometime around 1910/11, and with his brother James Knight, started the Knight Soda Fountain Company of Chicago, where they gained a considerable reputation with their "White Knight" ice cream and soda fountain. With the Knight brother's experience in the brass stampings and components industry, it was not surprising that the company at some point in time became involved with the manufacture and marketing of incandescent lighting appliances, and there seems to have been a name change to the Knight Light & Soda Fountain Co. The Knight family has previously had a major involvement with Acorn Brass Manufacturing, and there may well have been some co-operation between the two companies regarding the design of gasoline lamps. Their address was 2701 - 2729 N. Kildare Avenue, Chicago. ILL. Stanley C. Knight, son of Stanley Knight, reports that his father only worked with James Knight for a few years before setting up his own company, The Stanley Knight Corporation of Chicago. There seems to have been a later divergence in specialisation, with another name change. The Knight Light Co. using an address at 341-351 West Chicago Avenue, Corner Orleans Street, Chicago. At this time the company concentrated on hollow wire systems, with each lamp capable of lighting an area 20 feet square. Where customers supplied a plan of the building to be lit, the company would cut the hollow wires to length, and supply a kit of parts all ready for installation. It was inevitable that portable lighting devices followed the success in the fixed hollow wire products. Definite information is hard to find, but a well publicised product is their table lamp #321-M, the Sunray twin mantle match lighting lamp burning gasoline. This was similar to many of the other designs of the period. The generator was the type with a single loop passing into a burner which was a little chunkier than other brands. Safety was a major point in their advertising, with a claim that the lamp could be rolled on the floor with no danger, and that "Even though it should fall off the table while lighted, nothing serious could occur". This was a claim made by several manufacturers, but it's not advisable to test it! A final complication is that Knight Light and Soda Fountain also made lamps for Otto Bernz, and though these are only found on rare occasions, they provide evidence for other associations. Dr Jay reports: "The Bernz lantern is a Knight-Light made by the Knight Light and Soda Fountain Co. in Chicago. I would guess sometime in the 20s. Otto Bernz imported Swedish camp stoves which they sold with a decal added with the OB name. This is another bought in product in the same manner. The lantern has been modified with the addition of a blow torch pump replacing the external pump originally fitted. Knight Light product is often not marked which makes ID difficult. The first time I saw one of these I thought the pump was maybe a home made addition but I have now seen two more so I now believe they were bought and modified by OB for re-sale." In their time the Knight Light Co. seems to be among the leading manufacturers of lighting equipment. They exported to a number of countries through New York and New Orleans, and would also make shipments via San Francisco, Seattle and Vancouver. Within the United States they sold through established agencies, and direct to users in areas not covered by their representatives. In relatively highly populated areas they had representatives working on contract who would hold and supply goods to avoid the delay of shipping overland from Chicago. Catalogues were only supplied to the reps, and consequently not much in the way of comprehensive papers survive today. Ellen Knight Ogle confirms that James Knight sold the Knight Soda Fountain Co. business in the 1930s for $3,000,000, and at that time the company was absorbed by Bastian and Blessing, later to to be taken over yet again. Jamie Shafer, Grandson of James Knight, reports a lovely story, in his own words, "I remember going into the local drugstore in the village of Three Lakes, Wisconsin, back in the '30s with my grandfather, for the purpose of buying (forbidden by my grandmother before lunch) ice cream cones. And there my grandfather showed me the soda fountain, made by his recently sold company - a very large and imposing affair of roseate marble with a handsome embossed and enameled metal plaque containing the words Knight Soda Fountain Co. and the figure of a knight in armor." A soda fountain is a device that dispenses carbonated soft drinks, called fountain drinks. They can be found in restaurants, concession stands and other locations such as convenience stores. The machine combines flavored syrup or syrup concentrate and carbon dioxide with chilled and purified water to make soft drinks, either manually, or in a vending machine which is essentially an automated soda fountain that is operated using a soda gun. Today, the syrup often is pumped from a special container called a bag-in-box (BiB). A Coca-Cola soda fountain in Hainan, China, April 2010 Fountain coke is an often confused term normally referring to a handheld dispenser behind a bar or counter that are used in many countries, including Spain, France and the United Kingdom. The term 'fountain' helps differentiate from 'machine' cola, as the fountain is more easily controlled and offers more flavours. A soda fountain is also referred to as a postmix machine in some markets. Any brand of soft drink that is available as postmix syrup may be dispensed by a fountain. The term may also refer to a small eating establishment, soda shop or luncheonette, common from the late 19th century until the mid-20th century, often inside a drugstore, candy store or other business, where a soda jerk served carbonated beverages, ice cream, and sometimes light meals. The soda jerk's fountain generally dispensed only unflavored carbonated water, to which various syrups were added by hand only. History edit A "soda jerk" serving an ice cream soda. His left hand rests on the tap of a soda fountain (1936). An early soda fountain, from an 1872 engraving Hess Brothers Soda Fountain in Allentown PA, 1913 The soda fountain was an attempt to replicate mineral waters that bubbled up from the Earth. Many civilizations believed that drinking, and bathing, in these mineral waters cured diseases. Large industries often sprang up around hot springs, such as Bath in England (43 AD) or the many onsen of Japan. Although vessels to bottle and transport water were part of the earliest human civilizations,[1] bottling water began in the United Kingdom with the first water bottling at the Holy Well in 1621.[2] The demand for bottled water was fueled in large part by the resurgence in spa-going and water therapy among Europeans and American colonists in the 17th and 18th centuries.[3] The first commercially distributed water in America was bottled and sold by Jackson's Spa in Boston in 1767.[4] Early drinkers of bottled spa waters believed that the water at these mineral springs had therapeutic properties, and that bathing in or drinking the water could help treat many common ailments.[3] Many types of mineral water are sparkling, and thus so were they when bottled. Early scientists tried to create effervescent waters with curative powers, including Robert Boyle, Friedrich Hoffmann, Jean Baptiste van Helmont, William Brownrigg, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, and David Macbride. In the early 1770s, Swedish chemist Torbern Bergman, and (separately) English scientist Joseph Priestley invented equipment for saturating water with carbon dioxide. In 1774, John Mervin Nooth demonstrated an apparatus that improved upon Priestley's design. In 1807, Henry Thompson received the first British patent for a method of impregnating water with carbon dioxide. This was commonly called soda water, although it contained no sodium bicarbonate.[5] The soda fountain began in Europe, but achieved its greatest success in the U.S. Benjamin Silliman, a Yale chemistry professor, was among the first to introduce soda water to America. In 1806, Silliman purchased a Nooth apparatus and began selling mineral waters in New Haven, Connecticut. Sales were brisk, so he built a bigger apparatus, opened a pump room, and took in three partners. This partnership opened soda fountains in New York City and Baltimore, Maryland. At roughly the same time, other businessmen opened fountains in New York City and Philadelphia. Although Silliman's business eventually failed, he played an important role in popularizing soda water.[6] In 1832, John Matthews of New York City and John Lippincott of Philadelphia began manufacturing soda fountains. Both added innovations that improved soda-fountain equipment, and the industry expanded as retail outlets installed newer, better fountains. Other pioneering manufacturers were Alvin Puffer, Andrew Morse, Gustavus Dows, and James Tufts. In 1891 the four largest manufacturersTufts, Puffer, Lippincott, and Matthewsformed the American Soda Fountain Company, which was a trust designed to monopolize the industry. The four manufacturers continued to produce and market fountains under their company names. The trust controlled prices and forced some smaller manufacturers out of business.[7] Before mechanical refrigeration, soda fountains used ice to cool drinks and ice cream. Ice harvesters cut ice from frozen lakes and ponds in the winter and stored the blocks in ice houses for use in the summer. In the early 20th century, new companies entered the soda fountain business, marketing "iceless" fountains that used brine. A "soda jerk" serving an ice cream soda in a century-old diner in Bramwell, WV (2013) The L.A. Becker Company, the Liquid Carbonic Company, and the Bishop & Babcock Company dominated the iceless fountain business. In 1888 Jacob Baur of Terre Haute, Indiana founded the Liquid Carbonics Manufacturing Company in Chicago, becoming the Midwest's first manufacturer of liquefied carbon dioxide. In 1903 Liquid Carbonic began market-testing its prototype iceless fountain in a Chicago confectionery. Louis A. Becker was a salesman who started his own manufacturing business in 1898, making the 20th-Century Sanitary Soda Fountain. In 1904 Becker's company produced its first iceless fountain. In 1908 William H. Wallace obtained a patent for an iceless fountain and installed his prototype in an Indianapolis drugstore. He sold his patent to Marietta Manufacturing Company, which was absorbed by Bishop & Babcock of Cleveland. Two rare Soviet-style vending machine soda fountains, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, August 2007 Liquid Carbonic spawned another leading soda fountain manufacturer, the Bastian-Blessing Company. Two Liquid Carbonic employees, Charles Bastian and Lewis Blessing, started their company in 1908. The newer manufacturers competed with the American Soda Fountain Company and took a large share of the market. The trust was broken up, and its member companies struggled to stay in business. During World War I, some manufacturers marketed "50% fountains," which used a combination of ice and mechanical refrigeration. In the early 1920s, many retail outlets purchased soda fountains using ammonia refrigeration.[8] Flavored syrups packaged for insertion into a contemporary soda fountain In their heyday, soda fountains flourished in pharmacies, ice cream parlors, candy stores, dime stores, department stores, milk bars and train stations. They served an important function as a public space where neighbors could socialize and exchange community news. In the early 20th century many fountains expanded their menus and became lunch counters, serving light meals as well as ice cream sodas, egg creams, sundaes, and such. Soda fountains reached their height in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1950, Walgreens, one of the largest chains of American drug stores, introduced full self-service drug stores that began the decline of the soda fountain,[9] as did the coming of the Car Culture and the rise of suburbia. Drive-in restaurants and roadside ice cream outlets, such as Dairy Queen, competed for customers. North American retail stores switched to self-service soda vending machines selling pre-packaged soft drinks in cans, and the labor-intensive soda fountain did not fit into the new sales scheme. Today only a sprinkling of vintage soda fountains survive. In the Eastern Bloc countries, self-service soda fountains, located in shopping centers, farmers markets, or simply on the sidewalk in busy areas, became popular by the mid-20th century.[10] In the USSR, a glass of carbonated water would sell for 1 kopeck, while for 3 kopecks one could buy a glass of fruit-flavored soda. Most of these vending machines have disappeared since 1990; a few remain, usually provided with an operator. In literature and popular culture edit The arrival of soda fountain establishments in Glasgow, Scotland, was satirised by Neil Munro in his Erchie MacPherson story, "The Soda-Fountain Future", first published in the Glasgow Evening News on 11 October 1920.[11] See also edit Coca-Cola Freestyle, a soda fountain which uses microdispensing technology. Gasogene, a home-use machine which chemically produces carbonated water for sodas. Phosphate soda Soda shop Schmidt's Candy SodaStream, a home-use machine which infuses liquids with carbon dioxide. Soda syphon, a device for dispensing carbonated water. Soda machine (home appliance) Notes edit Rong, Xu Gan; Fa, Bao Tong. "Primitive-Aged Drinking Vessels". Grandiose Survey of Chinese Alcoholic Drinks and Beverages. Jiangnan University. Archived from the original on 20 January 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2013. "Great Malvern Conservation Area: Appraisal and Management Strategy". Malvern Hills District Council: Planning Services. April 2008. p. 5. Retrieved 22 July 2014. Back, William; Landa, Edward; Meeks, Lisa (1995). Bottled Water, Spas, and Early Years of Water Chemistry (Groundwater Volume 33, Issue 4 ed.). p. 606. Hall, Noah. "A Brief History of Bottled Water in America". Great Lakes Law. Retrieved 17 October 2013. Funderburg 2002, pp. 58. Funderburg 2002, pp. 1017. Funderburg 2002, pp. 2129. Funderburg 2002, pp. 114125. Frederick, James (2005). "Back to the future: Walgreens testing soda fountain". Drug Store News. Archived from the original on July 8, 2012. Retrieved November 5, 2010. Hlynsky, David. "Vending Machine". Making the History of 1989. Roy Rosenzweig Center for History & New Media. Retrieved 10 December 2013. Munro, Neil, "The Soda-Fountain Future", in Osborne, Brian D. & Armstrong, Ronald (eds.) (2002), Erchie, My Droll Friend, Birlinn Limited, Edinburgh, pp. 508 511, ISBN 9781841582023 References edit Funderburg, Anne Cooper (2002). Sundae Best: A History of Soda Fountains. The University of Wisconsin Popular Press. ISBN 0-87972-853-1. Funderburg, Anne Cooper (1995). Chocolate, Strawberry, and Vanilla: A History of American Ice Cream. ISBN 0-87972-691-1. Further reading edit Monk-Tutor, M.; Tutor, T. (2008). Drug Store Soda Fountains of the Southeast. Health Care Logistics. External links edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Soda fountains. "The Drugstore Soda Fountain". Drugstore Museum. Soderlund Village Drug. Archived from the original on 2012-02-15. Curtis, Wayne (February 24, 2011). "Phosphate With a Twist". The Atlantic. The Atlantic Monthly Group. On cherry phosphate Last edited 18 days ago by ModernDayTrilobite Related articles Soft drink Sweetened non-alcoholic drink, often carbonated Carbonated water Water containing dissolved carbon dioxide gas Slushy Flavored frozen drink

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