Matagorda County Bottling Companies
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1948 Southwestern Bell Telephone Book
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Today's paper carries an attractive advertisement of the Bay City Coca Cola Bottling Works. Experienced in the manufacture of carbonated beverages and realizing the popular demand for pure and wholesome refreshments this plant turns out a product that is free from impurities as well as being delicious and refreshing and recognized by the trade as a standard of quality. The plant is equipped throughout with modern washing, bottling and testing machinery and appliances. All bottles are sterilized in a strong caustic solution for ten minutes at a temperature of 130 degrees F., brushed outside and inside twice, sprayed inside with fresh water five different times, before being lifted automatically to the syruping machine. Throughout the process the bottle is not touched by human hands until it is sealed and passed over electric lights ready for delivery. Above the bottling machinery proper is a specially arranged syrup supply room where the syrups are mixed by an electric mixer in their proper portions and conducted through pipes directly to the bottling machine. This room is carefully screened in and equipped with steam to insure double sanitation for the mixture before they reach the machine. They do not claim perfection, but they do insist that their line of soft drinks is as pure as modern machinery and up-to-date methods will make it. The public is cordially invited to visit the plant at all times.
Matagorda County Tribune or Daily
Tribune, February 3, 1928 |
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Bottles of All Popular Drinks, Made From Pure Cane Sugar--Where Ever Bottle is Sterilized and Filled by Machinery Without Being Touched by Hands. This is one of the concerns of this section that, by its success in a business way may be counted as a milestone in the march of progress of our city and county. From the beginning of this enterprise the manager determined to give satisfaction to each and every customer and in this line that in itself is quite an undertaking. Mr. Mallick had the problems of distribution and through covering of the territory before him as well as the actual management of the plant. His success in building up the local organization and its efficiency is attested to by the amount of business they are now doing in this section. All of their products are pure and wholesome and the sanitary plant is a credit to our city. In the industrial scheme of things they are rated highly and as their future is tied up with that of the city we wish them every success.
Newspaper unknown, January 24, 1929 |
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Mr. Mallick of the Bay City Coca Cola Bottling Company has built up a reputation for his Mello milk drinks national wide in its scope. The letter below from the Heyman Process Corporation of Brooklyn, N. Y., states, "we consider you the best bottler of Mello milk drinks."
Bay City Coca Cola Bottling Co., Dear M. Mallick: Will you do us a favor? Kindly send six bottles of each flavor milk drink to the San Diego Soda Works of San Diego, Calif. They are keenly interested in Mello milk drinks and wired for us to have six bottles of each flavor sent them express. We consider you as the best bottler of Mello milk drinks and your samples would come in mighty handy in persuading the San Diego board of directors to engage in the manufacture of our products. If you would express them the six bottles of each flavor, we would be deeply indebted to you for your kindness. If you do, please charge us for all expenses incidental to the expressage. With best wishes, we are, sincerely yours, Heyman Process Corporation
Matagorda County Tribune, July 28, 1932 |
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Land was broken today for the Coca Cola Bottling Company’s new plant in this territory, having been purchased several weeks ago from Mr. Mallick, operator and Franchise holder of the Coca Cola in this section for many years. The building will be located on West Seventh Street, about four blocks from the square. At an expenditure of many thousands of dollars the Coca Cola Company plans to have in Bay City a plant that is beautiful and modern in every respect. Mr. L. R. Weeks, contractor, stated that the building would be 35x140 feet on a 100x140-ft lot. The grounds will be landscaped. The plant is to be of reinforced concrete and fireproof brick, most modern of machinery will be installed, to assure the consumer that the drinks have been manufactured with the greatest of sanitation and resulting in a most delicious drink. Mr. Weeks, of Houston, stated that he was using all local labor with the exception of his key man. Mr. Weeks is an engineer in the employ of Mr. C. E. Evans of Houston, part owner of Coca Cola in Texas. Mr. M. Lupton of Birmingham, nephew of the founder of the Coca Cola Bottling Company, is here now and will be the manager of the plant when it begins operation within the next few weeks. Several counties will be furnished from this plant.—Bay City Tribune, reprinted in the Palacios Beacon, January 18, 1934
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The Coca Cola Bottling Company in Bay City on Highway No. 35 was built in 1934 and serves the entire coast line area from Freeport through Palacios reaching inland from 30 to 50 miles, and Coca-Cola is placed daily in practically 350 different types of business places who patronize the Bay City plant because of their knowledge of the modern and immaculate plant, where absolute cleanliness and purity is assured because of the fact that every bottle of Coca Cola is bottled without the touch of human hands. It is indeed quite a step and an interesting one to come from the early days of the bottling of Coca Cola to the present one. Before modern machinery was built, and in the days of buggies Coca-Cola was bottled on foot power machines. Today it is an entirely different story, the Coca-Cola bottles are sterilized in a boiling solution of caustic soda and remain for 35 minutes at a temperature of 140 degrees, which makes them absolutely clean. This operation is performed by large automatic machines, costing thousands of dollars. The popularity of Coca-Cola is not due necessarily to the fact that it is a most palatable beverage but due largely to the fact that it is rich in food value. An analysis of Coca-Cola shows it is made of pure products from nature. Pure carbonated water, sugar, purest blends of flavoring and Phosphoric acid are all very important foods and are all embodied in a drink of Coca Cola. Everything in Coca-Cola is good for any member of the family, as it contains nothing artificial. A study of the making of Coca Cola shows us that only products from nature are used in its making, from nine sunny climes, which natural flavors are carefully blended. 22 laboratory tests make it as pure as sunlight. Sold in 78 countries of the world, complying strictly with the pure food laws of each, which laws prohibit the manufacturing or bottling of any product that is habit forming. A further study of the beverage that is synonymous with delicious, refreshing and invigorating qualities reveals that every bottle contains 74.6 calories (food values), more than in an egg which has 66 calories, almost as much as a slice of white bread which has 75, and an orange which has 87 calories. Coca-Cola cannot credit the great consumer demand that has been created for it over the period of 50 years it has been served to people everywhere to mere luck or some phenomenal occurrence, but does credit it entirely to its merits as a delicious drink which contains the purest of ingredients and is rich in food value. The Bay City plant is managed by Mr. H. L. Briscoe and operates under a franchise from the Coca-Cola Company, from whom they buy Coca-Cola syrup which they bottle according to definite specifications laid down by the Coca-Cola Company. This company does not confine its bottling entirely to Coca-Cola as they also market six flavors of soda water bottled in their plant in which of course, only the best of ingredients are used. Mr. Briscoe feels that the extensive business they have built in Bay City and its surrounding territory is largely due to service and courtesy to their dealers, a factor he believes in thoroughly and does at all times make every effort to apply to his business.
Palacios Beacon, October 19, 1939 |
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 The Herald, Bay City, December 4, 1941 |
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 The Herald, Bay City, December 18, 1941 |
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A new Coca Cola plant expected to triple the output of the present one is expected to be started here within a week or two, according to Hollie Briscoe, Coca Cola manager here since 1932. A new plant will be housed in a steel, glass and transite structure measuring 62 by 240 feet. The modern building will be located on Sixth Street between Moore Street and Avenue A. Mr. Briscoe, who has been associated with the Coca Cola Company since 1919, said the present capacity of the bottling plant here is about 1,000 cases per day, and the new building and equipment is expected to increase output to 3,000 cases daily. Thompson Construction Company of Houston will construct the new building, and Mr. Briscoe said work is expected to begin February 13 if the weather permits. A similar plant, somewhat smaller, is planned for El Campo, and Mr. Briscoe said both new buildings are expected to be ready for occupancy by July.
Matagorda County Tribune or Daily
Tribune, February 2, 1950 |
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