FLAVORS - Tonic Water

May 6, 2008, 4:13 am

Featuring something called Tonic Water from Brookdale Beverage Co.

Is it tonic or is it water? What's up with that?

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Blue Brookdale Soda Cases

May 13, 2008, 4:16 am

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Maybe you remember the original wooden boxes for the 12-bottle Brookdale soda cases, but they are quite rare. If any exist, we'd love to see it!

Anybody who remembers Brookdale soda remembers going to the plant, or depot, or Home Liquors and filling up the case according to your family's taste preferences.

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FLAVORS - Kola

May 20, 2008, 3:21 am

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Probably the most popular Brookdale Beverage Co. flavor - the original Kola - with a K. Here shown in the see-through and the dark-green bottle.

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FLAVORS - Cherry and Cherry Pit

May 27, 2008, 3:26 am

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Did you know that Brookdale Beverage Co. made diet versions of many of their flavors. Here is a bottle of diet Cherry & Cherry Pit.

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FLAVORS - Root Beer

May 30, 2008, 3:29 am

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As we were saying, Brookdale Beverage Co. made many of their popular flavors in regular and diet. Here are the Root Beer flavor bottles.

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FLAVORS - Birch Beer

June 5, 2008, 3:32 am

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Birch Beer flavored Brookdale soda always had a good kick to it, not to mention a lot of bubbles.

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FLAVORS - Cream

June 12, 2008, 3:38 am

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Some folks say Cream flavored Brookdale soda was a vanilla soda. Do you remember this flavor? Did it have a vanilla taste?

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Can You Name the Brookdale Soda Flavors?

July 21, 2008, 7:32 pm

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Two questions:

1 - What's your favorite Brookdale soda flavor?

2 - Without peeking, how many Brookdale soda flavors can you name?

Bonus question - tell us a flavor we missed!

Birch Beer
Black Raspberry
Celery
Cheers
Cherry & Cherry Pit
Club Soda
Coca-Cream
Cola
Cream
Fruit Punch
Ginger Ale
Half And Half
Kola
Lemon
Lemon-Lime
Lime
Orange
Quinine
Root Beer
Tom Collins Mixer
Tonic Water

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Cache of Green Brookdale Soda Bottles

July 27, 2008, 3:53 pm

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Jim writes:

My son left a huge bottle collection in my garage. There is a red plastic case with coca cola in white holding 12 dark green bottles with brookdale beverage, bloomfield nj DURAGLAS on bottom no labels--just curious, any thoughts thanks

Dear JIM

Wow. You are so lucky to have been left such a treasure. However, don't expect to fund a nice vacation after a visit to the Antiques Roadshow.

Besides myself and a few people I've run into who own Brookdale paraphernalia (and have allowed me to photograph it), I don't know that there is any monetary value in the bottles.

When I'm gone, I expect that all my Brookdale stuff will end up in the local museum.

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Stamps - 13 Cents!

July 31, 2008, 3:58 am

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Way back when you could send snail mail for 13 cents. Today, you couldn't get a four-year old to lick the stamp (not that anyone does THAT anymore, either) for 13 cents.

As always, thanks for taking the time to write.

You who read this can simply log in and give us your 13-cents worth!

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Letters, We Get Letters

August 2, 2008, 4:43 am

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This letter, about our original Memories Of Brookdale Soda from our archive, was unearthed this past spring (along with our SAT score and Draft Card) and we thougth it might be a hoot to post here.

BTW - we don't live there anymore.

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Bobby Cole on Brookdale Soda

January 11, 2009, 5:12 am

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Brookdale Soda...The Best I've ever tasted

Growing up in Newark New Jersey in the 60's and 70's, I was exposed to the best food and drink you could ever imagine. I knew it too, and I can look back now and realize now how magical of an era it was in America's history. I could spend weeks and weeks talking about the different foods and beverages the inner cities of the Northeast had at their fingertips but for this post, I will discuss the greatest soda I have ever tasted.
Continue reading

Thanks to Retrobobby for

Going Going Gone
A time it was...It was a time

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Grace Remembers The Flavorings

February 16, 2009, 6:03 pm

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Grace reports in:

"...The extracts for that soda, the Black Cherry Pit, the Orange, the Cream and the Root Beer were manufactured by my grandfather, and father, I am the last descendant from that line.

I lived on Lake Street and went to Sacred Heart School.

Whenever I came home from school, the whole house smelled of cherry pit and still when I smell cherry I go back to my childhood.

My favorite candle to burn today is Black Cherry.

Sometimes when I’d come home from school in my little uniform with the knee socks and beanie, my grandfather would ask me to taste (imagine a six year old doing Human Factors) a new flavor he was experimenting with, some I liked others I did not, so your next "new" soda was in the hands (or flavor buds) of a 6 - 10 year old.

We also supplied many of the Italian Ice Stores you probably went to. It was a charmed life, no locked doors, playing in Branch Brook Park until dusk and sitting on the stoop with my friends.

Thanks for remembering...."

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Scott checks in with memories of Brookdale soda

February 19, 2009, 7:41 pm

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"...Hi.
I somehow stumbled across your site - WOW! Blast from the past!
I remember going to exchange the bottles @ Heller & Heller, someplace in Bloomfield, and someplace in Belleville near Newark I think.

When I was really young, I remember they even had a truck that did deliveries. I remember the bottles of soda stacked on the truck. NEAT to see the pictures.

If you're interested, Franklin Farms has an old Brookdale Soda Clock inside the store. Round, yellow and blue I think, and it still works! If you see him open, stop in and check out the time!

I think it's been there for 30 years and the guy who used to run the place was a distributor or a delivery guy - not sure, but there's a story there.

Its funny what you remember out of the blue sometimes. So many of my birthday parties as a kid had Brookdale sodas involved - for some reason I remember the lime - so bright green - and the fruit punch the most. They even had the plastic bottle tops to put on the bottle after it was opened. Kind of a translucent plastic I think. (I wonder if my parents have any at home?) If I come across any other Brookdale stuff, I'll keep you posted!

Thanks for running that blog! I put a link to it from the home page for now. I thought it would be neat for visitors to see other Belleville-related things too. Especially things that are no more.

Scott ... "

Edited from two separate emails from the same writer.

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Brookdale Soda Cans?

August 5, 2009, 8:56 pm

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Hi Anthony,

I am sure you have gotten this before but i came across your site and was amazed. I am a brookdale fan!

In the late 70 and early 80's my brother and i knew all the spot's that sold Brookdale. In fact the other day he and I were talking about the cola and the artwork on the can. I remember it as red with a horse shoe and horse on the front. (is that right?) My brother disagrees.

Do you have any pictures of the can? I love to settle the bet.

thanks in advance,

-shea

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Another case of Brookdale empties salvaged

January 17, 2010, 3:46 pm

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Got a call last night from a history buff who knows I try to save any Brookdale soda memorabilia that comes my way.

Turns out he was cleaning out his basement ahead of moving closer to selling it and he wanted to know if I wanted the empty Brookdale soda bottles and the blue plastic case. Of course, I was cross town knocking at his door before the telephone cooled off and ready to take the ten bottles home for safe-keeping.

All he asked in return is a photo of the case and bottles. That's the first thing on my list for the next sunny day.

Thanks, pal.

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Baristanet and Brookale Soda

June 24, 2010, 8:14 am

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Although she grew up in Northern Virginia, novelist and Baristanet founder Debra Galant is hearing a lot of good things these days about growing up with Brookdale soda in those days.

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Wanted: Your old photos of Brookdale soda

July 3, 2010, 10:02 am

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Don't send them now, but if you have photos related to Brookdale beverage, the plant, the ads, the guys carrying the cases to you house, Brookdale beverage companie picnics, press releases, order forms, memorabilia such as bottles with labels, full bottles, empty bottles, wooded cases, plastic cases, bottle openers, ash trays, bottle caps, plastic caps, cans (empty or full) please drop us an email at

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BROOKDALE SODA MERCHANDISE for sale

August 12, 2010, 10:18 am

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August 14, 2010, 8:42 am

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