NORTH POLE SELTZER BOTTLE & GEORGE AND HIS AUNT ROSEMARIE CLOONEY

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We live in a disposable world. Virtually the same moment a new device is introduced to the marketplace, manufacturers promote a new and better version coming out in the near future. Built in obsolescence has become the norm – but it wasn't always this way.
Back in depression era America, most people were happy to have almost any creature comfort available, and they used and reused most everything, and valued what they had. That was true of everything from diapers to soda pop. During that time period, and before, right up to the post-WWII era boom that ushered in a new and burgeoning more fickle middle class looking for new and better things, most were relatively content to own functional items that were meant to endure.
Before the advent of disposable plastic bottles and disposable aluminum cans, that clutter the landfill in the interest of convenience, decades ago, soda and seltzer bottles were made of thick glass that were meant to be used and reused to satisfy the needs of consumers, not just for the moment, but for generations to follow.
They were created in the time when people had to return thick and heavy glass bottles of soda to the stores. For convenience, since about 1860, in America, there were men and occasionally women who dispensed seltzer and soda from either places of business, sometimes known as package stores, or delivered to homes and businesses is these very heavy, but enjoyable products.
In the larger metropolitan areas seltzer bottles were generally delivered in cases of 10, in a wooden box which weighed on average 70 pounds filled. Up until the 1950s , a few diehard older seltzer man still use horses and wagons, but generally deliveryman employed special trucks set up to contain 72 cases in the bay on the bottom, and 60 cases in returnable soda on top. Major soda companies like Coke, Pepsi, 7-Up, Dr Pepper, etc., all use heavy returnable glass delivered in a wooden box. And these major soda companies ,on rare occasion , used seltzer bottles as a vessel to contain their proprietary ingredients. Seltzer bottles were used in every state in the union, and remarkable examples still survive – a testament to their enduring nature. Most seltzer bottles were the more common round ones, but fancy and more ornate examples survive. They were larger in size and more heavy, and were generally sold in wooden sixpacks.
THE SUN IS DOWN BEFORE 4:30PM IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK THIS TIME OF THE YEAR, AND SO WE NEED A LITTLE LIGHT ESPECIALLY THIS PARTICULAR YEAR...WHAT A PERFECT TIME FOR HANUKKAH AND CHRISTMAS AND THE MOST PERFECT TIME TO OFFER THIS INCREDIBLE BOTTLE FROM NORTH POLE BEVERAGES OF STATEN ISLAND WITH A MATCHING TOP.
THIS AWESOME BOTTLE FEATURES AS ITS ETCHING A STARBURST DESIGN SIMILAR TO RADIATING SUNSHINE-JUST THE RIGHT RECIPE FOR THESE DARK, DARK DAYS.THE TOP IS FROM NORTH POLE FROM 1966, WHICH MAKES THIS ONE OF THE NEWEST BOTTLES I HAVE ON MY ROUTE AND MY COLLECTION.
I AM GOING TO INCLUDE MY STORY ABOUT AN EXPERIENCE ME AND MY WIFE SHARED FROM A WHILE AGO WITH IS TOTALLY IN SYNCH WITH THIS TIME OF THE YEAR.
In a world dominated by built in obsolescence, where things change in a flicker of a moment, I
am happy to still have a business delivering bottles of seltzer, in a route begun with my grandfather with his horse drawn cart in 1919-that still use many of his bottles.
During the Spring of 2001 I was offered an opportunity to provide seltzer at the MAC Awards (Manhattan Artists Cabaret Performers) at the Town Hall in Manhattan, by one of my customers who was on the entertainment committee. I wore a tuxedo and set up a small table backstage for the intermission, and was accompanied by my wife, eager to have a change of pace after looking after 3 and 4 year old boys all day.
Among the very talented performers were tv and movie stars plus Broadway’s finest , and my backstage set up gave me access to them all. Rosemary Clooney was honored as a recipient of a lifetime achievement award. When she sang you could hear a pin drop in the theatre. Her voice was crisp and resonant and unlike many older singers she retained a flawless tonal quality that hadn't diminished in time, but had quite possibly grown richer.
Later on I met her backstage and thanked her for her remarkably enjoyable performance, which she appreciated. When she had some trouble standing, her husband and I helped her to sit down. She introduced me to a very pleasant man about her age, as Dante, and we shook hands. Later on when the show ended, my wife came back stage to give me a hand packing up, as Rosemary was leaving. I introduced her to my wife who had also enjoyed her performance. Her husband Dante was helping her in to a wheel chair so I helped as well. She looked somewhat embarrassed  as if there was something to be ashamed of- a notion I immediately dismissed, and I said "You still look as beautiful as when you  sang "White Christmas" with Bing Crosby-and to me she did. She gave me a warm and sincere hug, that I'll always remember.
At the time we met I didn't realize how ill she was. By next year she'd be gone, but she kept her pledge to sing till the end-and she did, and was amazing.  I didn't realize the man she introduced me to as her husband, Dante, was Dante Di Paolo, who had been one of the early  loves of her life, in a budding romance, sadly never fulfilled, decades ago, that may never have been born again, till fate intervened, when they saw each other a lifetime later, while waiting at a light in separate cars, and reconnected.  And at the end of her remarkably turbulent life, they were somehow drawn together, and he was a there to comfort her.
A year after Rosie passed away I
delivered seltzer to the tv show "The View" .As I passed the security check points, it had been brought to my attention by the guards who were my friends, that George Clooney was slated to be a guest. His limousine had just pulled in the garage, and he had just gone upstairs.
When I got inside the dressing rooms he was standing no more than five feet away from me. If you think he was handsome on tv or in the movies, in person he looked infinitely better. I couldn't help thinking (to myself) that maybe in another life I'll be reincarnated to look like him. Starr Jones was glued to his left side and Barbara Walters was almost attached to his right side. He had been described in a magazine as one of the "last real movie stars", and you had the sense you were standing in the presence of someone who was a combination of David Niven and Cary Grant with a touch of Clark Gabel rolled in the mix, and this palpable reality wasn't lost on his two admirers. I didn’t dare approach him, but simply gave George a smile, and a thumbs up, and  we both understood  without words, the high regard with which he was held- but I always  regretted not telling him how much I really liked his aunt.
THIS IS A GREAT BOTTLE JUST PERFECT FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON. THE ETCHING OF THE RISING SUN IS SIMILAR TO THE ONE I GAVE THE PRODUCERS TO USE WHEN I FILMED A STORY FOR CBS'S SUNDAY MORNING. I AM PICTURED WITH CHARLES OSGOOD BY MY VAN WHEN I WENT TO CBS NEW'S WORLD HEADQUATERS THEN, ABOUT 12 YEARS AGO. THE AMBER BOTTLE I WAS HOLDING IS ONE I STILL HAVE AND IT IS ONE OF MY BOTTLES WITH HISTORY BEHIND IT. I ALSO HAVE A PICTURE OF IT WITH DAVID CANARY WHO PLAYED A DUAL ROLE ON THE SOAP OPERA ALL MY CHILDREN. HE WAS ALSO THE ADOPTED SON OF BEN CARTWRIGHT ON BONAZA. I WENT FOR COFFEE TWICE WITH HIM WHEN I WORKED AT THE SOAP OPERA AND TALKED ABOUT THAT SHOW..IT ALSO WAS USED ON THE SET OF A PLAY CALLED A SECOND HAND MEMORY WRITTEN BY WOODEN ALLEN WHO WAS THE DIRECTOR AND HE LIKED IT. MY BOTTLES HAVE MEMORIES. IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO BUY ONE AND HAVE YOUR OWN MEMORIES.
OUR BOTTLES ARE MEANT FOR DISPLAY,
ALL AUCTIONS BELONG TO MY WIFE SELTZERLADY.
I STILL DELIVER THE SELTZER AND WILL NEVER SELL ANY OF MY BOTTLES IF YOU SEE ME AROUND, BUT WILL TALK TO ALMOST ANYONE ABOUT THEM.
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THESE ARE IN FABULOUS CONDITION CONSIDERING THEIR AGE AND THAT THEY'VE BEEN USED FOR GENERATIONS. WHEN YOU DELIVER THESE BOTTLES IN WOODEN CASES OF TEN WEIGHING 70 POUNDS THEY DO GET HANDLED ROUGHLY.
AND THEY DO SHOW THEIR SIGNS OF AGE BUT THAT ONLY ADDS TO THEIR AUTHENTICITY AND DESIRABILITY..
THESE BOTTLES HAVE BEEN CLEANED THOUGHLY BY MY WIFE AND THESE ARE HER AUCTIONS.
THEY ARE MEANT FOR DISPLAY AND DECORATION..
THESE ARE VINTAGE COLLECTIBLES AND WERE IN USE TILL RECENTLY..THEY ALL HAVE A LONG AND MAGNIFIENT HISTORY OF PLEASING MANY FOR GENERATIONS. THEY ARE TIME-WORN WHICH ONLY ADDS TO THEIR AUTHENTICITY AND SENSE OF CONTINUITY WITH THE PAST FOR THOSE WHO LOOK FOR THINGS THAT ARE MEANT TO BE USED FOR A MOMENT THEN DISPOSED OF JUST AS QUICKLY.
THANK YOU.
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