Dear tnut-ga
Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to answer your interesting question.
John F. Kroutil (President of the Yukon Electric Company, Yukon
National Bank, and the Yukon Mill and Grain Co.) founded the Progress
Beer Company (not to be confused with the beer of the same name
produced by the Indianapolis Brewery in Indiana) in Oklahoma City in
1934 with his business partner G.F. Streich in 1934. It is said that
in those days Progress Brewing Co., Inc., a microbrewery operating
under Oklahoma State Cereal Beer U-Permit # OK-U-923 (a U-Permit was a
brewery license permit issued from 1933-1939) was one of only two
breweries in Oklahoma, the other supposedly being Old King Brewery ?
but I found no evidence of this, so it may very well have been the
only one.
Not much significant is known about the brewery in the ensuing years
but according to this rather ridiculous lawsuit Progress Brewing
Company was owned by J. S. Bryan & Son by 1950.
PROGRESS BREWING CO. v. THOMPSON
http://www.oscn.net/applications/ocisweb/DeliverDocument.asp?citeID=57976
For many years it seems the Progress Brewing Company operated at 501
North Douglas Avenue, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. After some brewery laws
began to make things difficult for Progress, Lone Star Brewing Company
of Texas eventually bought out the company. In time Lone Star is said
to have created problems of its own, allegedly getting into trouble
with the Oklahoma City government over its waste polices resulting it
is getting virtually run out of the state.
As for your cooler, you may have something there. I found absolutely
no references to Progress Beer Coolers and since this was a
now-defunct, first generation microbrewery it is possible that someone
interested in ?breweriana? (beer collectibles) could pay quite a sum
for something as rare as this. I?m no expert in this field but my
research has produce no other example of such a cooler which can only
add to it?s significance. I highly recommend you photograph your
cooler and send it to come breweriana aficionados for a professional
appraisal. On a brighter note, hopefully I have pleased you and
satisfied your question with its history .
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Tutuzdad ? Google Answers Researcher
INFORMATION SOURCES
HISTORICALLY SPEAKING
http://www.ynbok.com/history.htm
U-PERMIT LIST DISTRICT #9
http://www.mi-brew.com/permits/u-permit-900.html
HUEBERTS HOPE TO TAP IN ON STATE'S BEER MARKET
http://www.kfor.com/Global/story.asp?S=1408933
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