Crown Bottling Works (1916-1921) 
     In 1916, the original owners of Crown Bottling Works, located on Durango St. at the northeast corner of West Second St., were two brothers, Bill and Nicholas Nicholson.  Another Nicholson (possibly another brother), John P., was in charge a year later, along with George D. Carameros.  In 1918, Carameros was gone, leaving only Nicholson.  The following year, Nicholson was replaced by Joseph L. Davis, who moved the company to 2401 E. Boulevard (later renamed Yandell Blvd.).  All three Nicholsons, along with Carameros, were newcomers to El Paso and apparently continued a nomadic existence after leaving Crown.   Joseph Lamar Davis, however, had been around since 1910, first with Turner and Davis, then as a driver for Herrick & Bishop, grocers.  He drove for J. H. Nations Meat & Supply Company in 1913, then worked in a variety of grocery stores, including C. O. D. Grocery (1915), McMickles Grocery (1916), and Standard Grocery Company (1917) before becoming the proprietor of Crown in 1920.  Personnel changed during each of the four years the firm was listed, indicating an unstable management.  Even though they were engaged in the bottling trade, none of the Nicholsons were related to Constantino "Gus" Nicholson, the owner of Union Bottling Works and, later, Nicholson Bottling Works.  Although Crown Bottling Works is unlisted in the 1921 city directory, the company is enumerated in the 1921 El Paso telephone directory.  Unlike the city directories, telephone lists do not include management or owners, so we can only assume that Davis remained proprietor.  It has already been ascertained that city directory listings do not always exactly match dates for the inception or dissolution of businesses, so it seems likely that Crown continued to exist until at least 1921 (EPCD 1915-1920; EPTD, 1921; New Mexico State Business Directory, 1915; Nicholson interview).