Archive for Soda Pop
Squeeze Cola Bottle
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Squeeze Cola, bottled by Coca Cola Bottling Co., Wichita, KS. Kovels’ Bottles Price List: 12th Edition
Polar Cub ACL Soft Drink Bottle
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Somehow, I wonder if Coca-Cola got their polar bear advertising idea from this design. Polar Cub sparkling beverages ACL bottle. I can’t tell if this is an early bottle or a later bottle. I tend to think later, as things went simpler in design towards the 1940s and 1950s.
O-So Grape Soda Bottle
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O-So Good! O-So Grape Soda ACL Bottle. Bottled in Wichita, Kansas. I should have used something besides a white background here.
Two Mason’s Root Beer ACL Bottles
Two old Mason’s Root Beer ACL (applied color label) bottles. They might look the same at first glance, but they are very different. Let’s play the game of “spot the differences.” Look closely. From back when there was good root beer to be found. Why is it that the worst root beer (Mug) is the one that seems to be everywhere, while the really good ones go out of business? If you’re interested in Mason’s, be sure to check out my Mason’s Old Fashioned Root Beer water-slide decal.
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KIST Beverages ACL Bottle
7 ounce KIST Soda bottle. I wonder why 7 ounce was such a popular size? Probably from the 1940s.
This one was bottled in Independence, Kansas, where I went to junior high (it became “middle school” while I was in high school) and high school. A nice town of about 10,000 people and some very very nice old houses. Indy (as we called it) had quite a bit of oil and is only 20 miles from Oklahoma. Sinclair from Sinclair Oil (you know, with the dinosaur on the logo) lived there and Independence at one time had more millionaires per capita than anywhere in the US due to the oil boom. Of course, all that was long gone by the time I got there, but many of the houses still stand.
The wife and I had a good time at my conference in Chicago (she stayed at the hotel during the day without any kids and read and swam and relaxed). It seems my auto post worked. I’m still catching up so I’ll be back to regular posting and commenting on Monday.
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