11 W. 35th Street, Chicago, IL.
Beeco Inc. was a glass sign manufacturer located in Chicago, IL. Bee-Co Inc was in business from the height of the advertising craze, from about the 1930’s till the early 1970’s. During that time, they made Reverse Painted Glass ROG Signs for various companies and industries. Their signs were especially popular with companies during the metal shortages of World War II. One of their major customer industries was that of the brewer and brewery industries. They made a variety of small cardboard easel backed and adhesive tacker backed glass signs for various breweries across the country.
Beeco Inc. Sign Manufacturing Company was hired to produce signs for various breweries to advertise both the brewery as well as the products of beer, ale and porter that they made. Just some of their clients were breweries like Old Reading, Sunshine, Reading Premium, Neuweiler, Stegmaier, Valley Forge, Adam Scheidt, Rams Head Ale, Duquesne, Latrobe, Rolling Rock, Kaiers, Bartels, Hazleton, Mount Carbon, Yuengling, Iroquois, Miller, Coors, Anheuser-Busch, Budweiser, National, Kuebler, Pabst, Rheingold, Wiedemann, and Phoenix just to name a few.
Below are a few examples of Beeco Inc. signs:
