William Hund was an immigrant from Baden, Germany
In 1880, at age of 26, William Hund purchased ownership in a bottling company in St Joseph that was known as Dumke & Gleitze
The company was located at Main & Faraon and became known as Dumke & Hund
In 1888, Dumke sold his interest to Louis Eger and the Hund & Eger partnership was formed
The business was temporarily moved to 13th and Frederick Ave while a new bottling plant to be located at 421-423 North 2nd was being built
In 1890, the bottling operations were moved to 421-423 North 2nd Street and remained there until the company was sold in 1962
In 1905 an agreement was made with the Coca-Cola company to become a bottler of a new product called Coca-Cola
In 1908, Louis Eger died and his interest was purchased by the Hunds
This made it a totally family owned enterprise and was later incorporated as the Hund & Eger Bottling Company
The Coca-Cola Company did not want alcohol products in the same business location
Around 1935, a separate warehouse and special delivery trucks were acquired for the sales, storage & distribution alcohol products
By 1953, there were 2 Hund & Eger warehouses; one located at 418-420 North 2nd Street and another at 501-503 North 2nd Street
In the 1920s it was decided that Hund & Eger would discontinue other brands of soda water and sell their own formulations of different flavors
These flavors would be made of the finest ingrediants and use the best flavoring available
Only C & H Pure Cane Sugar would be used. Many bottlers at the time were using beet sugar which was cheaper but did not give the
same flavor that was desired by the Hunds
Flavorings came in the form of concentrated extracts which was mixed with water and suger to form a syrup.
A measured amount was inserted into a bottle then carbonated water was added. The extract for Hund & Eger grape soda was a
Concord Grape flavor produced by the Welch Company
The lime extract was imported from Italy
Other extracts were choosen by how intense the flavor transferred to the finished product
The following flavors were sold in the same area as Coca-Cola and their combined sales equaled the sales of Coke year after year
Grape, Orange, Root Beer, Strawberry, Cherry, Lime, Cream, Grapefruit, Lemon and Lemon Sour
To this day, old timers from St. Joseph still make comments about their favorite Hund & Eger flavor when they were growing up
All of the flavors were truly state of the art and have never been matched
In 1962 the Kansas City Coca-Cola bottler made an offer to purchase the St. Joseph franchise and the Hund family sold the company
Kansas City had their own line of flavors, called Fanta, which was the also part of the Coca-Cola product line and the flavors sold
with the name of Hund & Eger were discontinued
Thus dies one of America's best soft drinks
The location is currently a parking lot, another historical landmark is now gone
Many thanks to Louis Hund, Jr for providing most of the above information
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