Hi Neighbor!
Interested in learning
more about Rhode Island Breweries? Of course you do!
For those who are interested in learning more about the
Narragansett
Brewing Company, I would direct you to a wonderfully written article by Rick Redman and Virginia McKenna that appeared
in the American Breweriana Journal a few years back. You can access this article online at:
http://www.breweriana.com/history/historygansett.htmlIf you're interested in seeing what happened to the
Narragansett Brewing Company
before it was torn down (fair warning to all, it's not pretty), you might want to check out:
http://www.artinruins.com/ This site is chock full of interesting information on old Rhode Island architectural landmarks that time
has passed by. We need to support sites and organizations like these before we lose yet another piece of history and the entire
country ends up looking like a strip mall.
For more information on New England Brewery advertising, you might
want to check out a book we co-authored a few years back with a few collector friends of ours called
New England
Breweriana. This book is broken down state by state and is frequently available on ebay. You can also find it
on Amazon.
Another book that may be of interest to those fascinated with the Narragansett Brewing Company
would be one written in 2007 by Hazel B. Turley entitled
Narragansett Brewing Company which
is part of the Arcadia Publishing Company's
Images of America series. We contributed quite
a bit to Hazel's book and we wish her all the success with it. It can be found in many local Rhode Island book shops,
on ebay, and on Amazon.
Special thanks are extended to our good friend, John Pierce, for donating the picture of
the Calvin Fletcher Brewery and Narragansett Refridgerator Railroad Car to our collection. Thanks John!
Special
thanks also go out to the
Little Rhody Bottle Club for their great website. It can be accessed at:
http://www.littlerhodybottleclub.org/index.htmlEven after thirty years of collecting Rhode Island Breweriana, we found some incredible facts that we were unaware
of on their site. It was particularly helpful in filling some gaps we had while we were pasting together the history
of the breweries as well as the independent wholesalers and bottlers that were located in Rhode Island. We tip our hats and
give tremendous credit for some of the material we are able to provide on this site to those researchers in this fine organization.
Special thanks are extended to Al and Jessen Otis as well as Art and Pam Pawlowski for their help and friendship.
Special thanks and appreciation are extended to our friend, Will Anderson, for some of the information provided on
this site. Will is universally accepted as the father of antique brewery advertising collecting. He has produced many
wonderfully written books on the subject, too many to mention. I suggest a trip to Amazon books and doing a search under his
name for hours of entertaining reading, not only on the subject of Beer History, but on Roadside Attractions and Dining,
and the local Sports Scene as well. Will graciously wrote the introduction to our book,
New England Breweriana.
If my writing style and skills were 10% of that which Will possesses, I would be thrilled. His works are captivating.
Speaking of Jacob Wirth...
By now, you should be getting plenty thirsty and maybe a bit hungry. There's more to
life than just sitting in front of the damn computer all day long. Gather the family and take a trip over to one of our favorites,
the
Jacob Wirth and Co.in Boston. Heck, one of this website's authors went to school right across the
street from the place for six years, it's kind of like going home to him anyway. Jake's can be found online at:
http://www.jacobwirth.com/If you can't get to Boston, but are hankering for a good pint while in the Providence area, you can't
go wrong at either
Union Station the
Trinity Brewhouse. Both establishments are located
right downtown. Both are wonderful microbreweries and have great comfort food, even if they're not
as old as Jake's.
Last, but certainly not least, special thanks are extended to all of our Breweriana
friends who have helped build our collection over the past thirty years. The friendships we've built over the years
and the time we've spent together at shows with guys like Kenny Ostrow, the father and son McMurtery team, Dave Waugh,
Dan Morean and many, many others too numerous to mention certainly outweighs the material acquistions we've accumulated
over the years.
Cheers, Neighbor and Thanks for Visiting!
