Sole Agents San Francisco ," a partnership between 18 "Peerless Bourbon/Wolf, Wreden and Co.Rosedale OK Whiskey Sole Agents ," manufactured in San Francisco between 18 Given the number of bars and restaurants at the park they are assumed to represent disposable packaging of goods sold at the park.Īmong the whiskey and rye bottles a number of examples were embossed with the names of local distributors and agents, such as
Whether the examples described in the following paragraphs represent goods purchased at the park or brought by visitors has not been determined. Other common bottles included the equally classic aqua soda bottle.some of which were identified by embossing to have contained ginger ale. The amber-brown whiskey bottle was common. The vast majority of bottles recovered from the site contained beverages. In the period from 1876 to the park's closing in 1924, numerous rifle ranges, a pistol range, shooting gallery, dance pavilions, amusement facilities, and related restaurants and bars were added to the park. the Emeryville "pleasure resort" or "picnic grounds" first established in 1876 as a 200-yard rifle range.
These bottles, mugs and cartridge casings were the discards of Shell Mound Park. Clearly, items of this sort were not associated with the Native Americans known to have occupied the site so many centuries ago. During the archaeological investigation of the Emeryville shellmound, an historic trash dump containing a large number of bottles, drinking glasses, drinking mugs, and rifle cartridge casings was encountered in the excavation units along the western edge of the site.
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