For sale is a vintage Olympia Brewing Co. mirror that would make a great addition to any bar or pub. The mirror boasts striking designs, including a large oval showing an attractive lady in nostalgic clothing of the time, a detailed gold border with Victorian black edging, the bold font of the logo, and a detail of the mirror with a lovely slogan, “It’s the water.” This is all complemented by a sleek pine frame. This collectable piece is in excellent vintage condition and exhibits signs of an authentic patina.
Height: 67cm
Length: 52cm
Width: 3cm
The Olympia Brewing Company was a brewery in the northwest United States, located in Tumwater, Washington, near Olympia. Founded in 1896 by Leopold Friederich Schmidt, it was bought by G. Heileman Brewing Company in 1983. In 1999, Pabst Brewing Company acquired it through a series of consolidations. The Tumwater brewery closed in 2003.
Leopold Schmidt, a German immigrant from Montana, founded The Capital Brewing Company at Tumwater Falls on the Deschutes River in Tumwater, near the south end of Puget Sound. He built a four-story wooden brewhouse, a five-story cellar building, a one-story ice factory powered by the lower falls, and a bottling and keg plant and in 1896, began brewing and selling Olympia Beer. In 1902, the firm became Olympia Brewing Company, with Frank Kenney as the Company Secretary. Frank Kenney proposed the slogan "It's the Water" to promote the brewery's flagship product.
Statewide Prohibition began in January 1916, four years before National Prohibition, and ended beer-making operations. After Prohibition ended, a new Olympia Brewery was erected just upstream from the original, and Olympia beer went back on sale in 1934.
Olympia was a very popular regional brand in the Pacific Northwest for half of a century. It eventually expanded nationwide.