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Storz Beer Brewing Post Card with Horse Drawn Wagon Vintage
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For sale is the Storz Brewing Beer Post card with the horse drawn carriage. My father passed away at 101 and retired from Storz. He knew of the horses and even got to drive the horse drawn carriage. A little story with the post card as told by my father who wrote his entire life story with included the years at Storz. Unsure how true it is because he wrote this when he was about 95.His story.
During the times when there was gas ration’s Storz made headlines in the newspapers and magazines when the Brewery Company said they would use horses during the gas shortage. The Vice President went to Missouri to look for 4 matched Blads Perchetions and he found two teams, which were brothers and sisters. He had them shipped back to Omaha where he found a wagon and had it repainted with Storz colors (red, yellow and gold trim). It was made into a beer wagon, which could haul 25 ½ wood barrels on top and 5 full barrels swing from under between the wheels. A lot of people would stop to pet and feed the horses at the beer stops. It was quite a promotion. They put the picture on advertising cards and in newspapers.
They used trucks for many delivers, but the horses gave the impression that they were only using horses.
The post card above shows the two men drivers (Swede Frohardt sat on the left side and Bob Milton sat on the right side).
The horses were all half brothers and sisters.
The names are (left – Harry, middle – Tom, right – Dick).
Tom was always in the middle since he weighed almost a ton.
There were two sets of teams 1) Queen & Harry and 2) Tom & Dick.
My dad
got to drive the wagon with Swede on occasion.