Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2019 January 25 • Friday

Search on google for "Eastside beer" and you'll find that there was a brewery of that name from 1907 to maybe as late as 1979.

According to Los Angeles magazine, George Zobelein bought the Los Angeles Brewing Company in 1907 and started his own brewery, Eastside, which was itself bought by Pabst in 1948 and then discarded by 1979.

But why would you google Eastside beer in the first place? Maybe because you just watched a movie from 1954 called Highway Dragnet.

There's an amusing scene in a roadside dinner and they have an Eastside beer sign in the window.

A little later on there's an Arden Ice Cream truck. It seems there were Arden dairy farms in California and New York and maybe Arizona, too.

They seem to be proud of their Butterscotch Filbert, which is how I learned that filbert is apparently another name for hazelnut.

It's a decent movie, certainly worth watching for the location photography at least.