Another history lesson was uncovered as Steve finished his trenching project. It kind of makes me want to dig up the entire yard. Hmmm.

To the left of the logo is the number "20", the factory plant code indicating it was made at the Owens-Illinois Glass Company plant in Oakland, California. The "47" to the right tells us that this bottle has been buried in my back yard for almost 80 years. Wow.

As for the history of the contents of the bottle, the Acme Brewing Company was formed in 1907, with Jacob P. Rettenmayer as Acme’s first brewmaster. After the end of Prohibition, the company (now called Acme Breweries) expanded from its San Francisco location to a second facility in Los Angeles. The LA brewery, located in Vernon, was built at the beginning of the company’s heyday in 1935. In the mid-forties Acme Breweries built a spectacular glass block Art Deco bottling plant in San Francisco, designed by the well-known California Architect William G. Merchant, which was the gem of modern industrial architecture. Acme dominated the California beer scene at that time with production of over a million barrels a year.