STORZ BREWERY BEER JEAN JACKET 60'S LEE BRWERIANA OMAHA NEBRASKA ASTAIRE MINT ~

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U P FOR AUCTION IS AN AWESOME LEE JEAN JACKET MADE FOR AND SOLD EXCLUSIVELY TO STORZ BREWERY EMPLOYEES IN THE 1960'S. MY GRANDFATHER RECEIVED THIS ONE UPON HIS RETIREMENT FROM THE COMPANY. HE NEVER WORE IT, AND ENDED UP GIVING IT TO ME. I NEVER WORE IT EITHER, AS IT'S TO BIG FOR ME. IT IS A HEAVY DUTY, WOOL INSULATED, 191-LB 44 REGULAR, UNION MADE IN THE U.S.A. IT IS DOUBLE STITCHED, WITH THE FAMOUS BRIGHT STORZ SWISH EMBLEM OVER THE LEFT ZIPPERED POCKET AND A MUCH LARGER EMBLEM ON THE BACK. THIS IS A RARE COLLECTOR'S ITEM, SO SUPERBLY MADE IT WOULD TRULY LAST A LIFETIME, EVEN UNDER THE HARSHEST CONDITIONS. AS IS SAID, "THEY DON'T MAKE EM LIKE THIS ANYMORE", THE BEER, OR THE JACKET. STORZ WENT DEFUNCT IN 1972. BELOW IS THE VERY INTERESTING HISTORY OF STORZ. ANOTHER, LITTLE KNOWN PIECE OF INFO IS THAT OMAHA NATIVE FRED ASTAIRE WORKED BRIEFLY AT THE COMPANY AS A YOUTH. Storz Brewing Company Former type Private Industry Beverages Founded 1876 Defunct 1972 Headquarters Omaha, Nebraska , United States Key people Gottlieb Storz (founder), Adolph Storz , Robert Storz Products Beers, lagers, malt beverages The Storz Brewing Company was located at 1807 North 16th Street in North Omaha , Nebraska . Established from a company started in 1863, Storz Brewing began in 1876 by Gottlieb Storz and was owned by the Storz family until 1966; the brewery ceased operations in 1972. Their beers won several prizes in international competitions, and Storz was the top selling brand in Nebraska starting in World War II . Storz was one of the "Big 4" brewers located in Omaha, which also included the Krug , Willow Springs and Metz breweries . Richard Siemon founded an ale brewery called Saratoga Brewery in the town of Saratoga, Nebraska in the early 1860s. It was located at the present-day junction of North 16th Street and Commercial Avenue. By 1863 the company was sold to Ebenezer Dallow, who in turn sold it to Joseph Baumann in 1865. Baumann renamed it the Columbia Brewery. In 1876 Baumann hired a young German immigrant named Gottlieb Storz to become his foreman. Baumann died that year and his widow, Wilhemina, ran the brewery, naming Storz foreman. In 1884 Storz and a partner named J.D. Iler purchased the brewery. They immediately improved the buildings and machinery, and increased production. In 1891 Storz founded a company called the Omaha Brewing Association to make beer and named himself as president. According to the Omaha World-Herald , "The Storz brewery pumped out 43 million gallons of beer a year and produced one-third of all the beer sold in Nebraska in 1960. Arthur C. Storz Sr. sold the company in 1966. It went out of business in 1972. Building The Storz Brewery building is located at 1807 North 16th Street on the corner of 16th and Clark Streets. Built for $500,000, it was a six-story building constructed from brick, stone and cement that was over 200 feet long. It had with red tiled floors and walls with burnished stainless steel and copper fixtures. Storz installed new equipment throughout the building, as well as an ice plant, cold storage, a bottling shop, machine shop and a restaurant. Eventually, the entire facility occupied more than 15 buildings.The Storz Brewery included a hospitality room patterned after a brew house called "The Frontier Room" and a hunting lodge-style room adorned with the stuffed heads of big game called "The Trophy Room. [edit ]Operations Storz and later, his son Adolph , were precise and efficient brew masters and managers. The new plant was capable of producing 150,000 barrels annually. Storz himself consistently hired new brewers from Germany, where he himself had learned how to brew beer .Storz faced ongoing political and social pressures against alcohol consumption by religious and moral organizations across Nebraska, and throughout the Midwest . Storz fought statewide legislation calling for the prohibition of alcohol by working closely with the Omaha Brewing Association, the National German-American Alliance and several other organizations. After a number of... read more

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