Hires Root Beer
Company Names, addresses, dates:
  Hires Root Beer, 9002 50th Ave, College Park MD (1957-1958) 1,2
  Hires Root Beer, 9002 50th Ave, Branchville MD (1958-1961) 2,3
Notes:
Wikipedia says that Hires Root Beer was introduced in 1876, and was
manufactured by
Dr Pepper
The Hires Root Beer bottling company of Washington DC was actually located
in Maryland, not D.C., so I was almost didn't create this web page.
In 1958, the newspaper mentions of the Hires Bottling company changed the
city name from "College Park" to "Branchville". Branchville was a section
of College Park. 2
In 1961, there was a newspaper announcement that the
Rock Creek Ginger Ale Co
was taking over as sole manufacturer and distributor of Hires Root Beer
in the Washington DC area. 3
One of the bottle caps below says "TV COLA" on the front.
I've also seen bottle caps from Hires Washington DC that say:
  TV / ORANGE / SODA
  TV / IMITATION / GRAPE / SODA
I think that "TV" is short for "True Value", as I have seen some
soda cans that said "TV True Value Brand", but I don't know for sure.
I haven't found any information about "TV" associated with "Hires",
other than the bottle caps.
| (no bottles that I know of) |