A two-story brick building stands at the edge of a dirt street in this 6-1/2" x 4-1/2" black and white photograph. There is a gas pump in front of the building, and there are signs on the building that say "Shogo Lithia Springs Co., Carbonated Beverages, 335 So 8th" and "Shogo Lithia Springs Co., Bottles of High Grade Carbonated Beverages, Milford, Lincoln." The building has five windows and two doors; the windows on the bottom floor are covered with bars. There is a poster advertising Budweiser barley malt syrup next to one of the windows. Taller brick buildings are visible in the background. "Shogo Lithia Springs Co." is written on the photograph.
The Dick Brothers Brewing Company built this "storage building" at 335 South 8th Street in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1907. George Berlinghof was their architect. John Rohrig purchased it in 1923 for his Shogo Lithia Springs Company. J. H. Culver started bottling water from natural springs in Milford, Nebraska in 1906. "Lithia" refers to a mineral in the water, lithium chloride. The company sent drinking water for workmen during construction of the Panama Canal. In the 1930s the Milford site provided water for bottling flavored soda pop in Lincoln. Meadow Gold Dairy of the Beatrice Creamery Company occupied most of the block on which this building stood and eventually Beatrice acquired this property in 1963, consolidating their ownership of the whole block. The building was demolished for maneuvering and parking the larger trucks which the creamery used in the second half of the 20th century.
