Workers pack beer at the Pilsener Brewing Company, located at Clark Avenue and West 65th Street. Bohemian brewer Wenzel Medlin founded the company in 1892. The company is best remembered for its P.O.C. beer, which stood not for "Pride of Cleveland" (as some mistakenly believe today) but "Pilsner of Cleveland." Pittsburgh-based Duquense Brewing Company bought Pilsner Brewing in 1963, however, and P.O.C. (which then became short for "Pleasure on Call") was brewed in Pittsburgh until Duquense itself went bankrupt ten years later. At that point, C. Schmidt & Sons purchased their brand names, and the P.O.C. was once again brewed in Cleveland until 1984. | Date: 1933 | Source: Cleveland State University Library Special CollectionsDownload Original File
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