Washington, D.C., 1921. "Whistle car." A truck filled with Whistle, the "beverage wrapped in bottles." National Photo Company glass negative. View full size.
Submitted by stanton_square on Fri, 08/01/2008 - 4:25pm.
Well not the truck, but rather the location of the photo. It seemed sensible that the site might be in the vicinity of the former Whistle Bottling Works. I finally trotted down to the location today, and sure enough, the photo of the truck was taken directly in front of the bottling plant looking across the street (400 block F street N.E.)
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Sat, 07/19/2008 - 2:36am.
It was bottled until (at least) in the 70s in Columbus, OH by a plant located on W. Fifth Avenue near Grandview. Today, that plant is a moped shop.
They used to have around 20 flavors of Whistle, and in the early 70s they opened some satellite stores in some of the small strip malls and you could mix up a case of whatever flavors you wanted.
Submitted by Kenny Stallard on Thu, 07/17/2008 - 7:48am.
Wonderful detail (as with nearly every photo). Did the fellow on the right forget his shirt collar or maybe he is just not used to wearing a tie and did not know where it went.
