Tacoma Beer Factoid: Clicquot Club

Circa 1952 Tacoma, an unidentified young lady admires a display of two huskies pulling a sled of Clicquot Club beverages who are being urged on by a small, hooded figure. Clicquot Club Beverages was one of the largest national beverage companies. Posters on the wall behind the display advertise the Clicquot Club/KJR Theater Party on August 29. The Clicquot Club sponsored KJR’s Saturday Night Dance Party from 8-11:30 pm on radio station 950. The Theater Party on August 29th would provide live entertainment with Little Bill and the Blue Notes in concert. Admission was only 35 cents with three Clicquot bottle caps or cans and 50 albums would be given away.

The husky statues, sled and figure had been used in the Cammarano Brothers Daffodil Parade float in April of 1952. The Cammarano Brothers were Tacoma distributors of Clicquot products, as well as beer brewed in Tacoma, with routes through Tacoma, Olympia and Seattle.

Photograph courtesy of the Northwest Room at The Tacoma Public Library (William Cammarano Collection, TPL-10420)

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