Meet Fred DeCarlo, the new FOHBC Northeast Region Director

Fred DeCarlo was born and grew up in Utica, New York. He is currently a firefighter/EMT with the City of Utica Fire Department and has been with them for 20 years. He is married to his wife of 15 years, Curry [...]

Call For Historical Information

The FOHBC, led by board member Michael Seeliger, has started a major new initiative to preserve our history. We would like your assistance in locating potentially long-lost images before it is too late as they could potentially be forgotten forever. [...]

The 8-sided Wm. Heiss Jr. Superior Mineral and Soda Water Bottle

William Heiss Jr. was a leading mineral and soda water manufacturer of his time. He used his expertise as being a coppersmith to develop a Mineral Water Apparatus that he marketed broadly from his shop in Philadelphia marked with a [...]

FOHBC President’s Message January 2021

So after my last column in the November-December issue of Bottles and Extras, I was kind of hoping for a deluge of great suggestions from our fellow members but sad to say I only received one single solitary email and [...]

First issue of the New Year!

Bottles and Extras, the 72-page + covers, full-color magazine Bottles and Extras Vol. 32 No. 1 | January - February 2021 | No. 253    (Mailed 23 December 2020) Features: The Diary of a Digger Mark C. Wiseman 16 San Diego Soda [...]

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