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Just 13 years after 7 Up’s diet soda, Like, was discontinued, the company introduced Like Cola. First distributed in 1982, Like Cola was one of the first attempts at producing a soda with virtually no caffeine. By law, colas had to have some caffeine content, so the pop was labeled as “99% Caffeine-Free”. Like Cola’s [...]
Since their first release in 1897, Coca-Cola serving trays have been a popular collectible. Initially, The Coca-Cola Company supplied tin serving trays and change trays to soda fountains to promote the product line. These served to push name recognition. Unlike the change trays (which were distributed on and off through the years), the serving trays [...]
This label is for Virginia Dare brand Pale Dry Ginger Ale, one of the many products produced by the Virginia Dare Extract Company of Brooklyn, New York.
The Orchard brand imitation grape soda was a brand that was bottled by the Coca-Cola bottlers of Arkansas. It was a very small soda brand and may have existed independently before Coke bought the local brand to increase their sales in that particular area. This was, and still is, a very common practice of [...]
“Just Say ‘AAA’, Your Favorite Root Beer” The Triple “AAA” Company was a root beer manufacturer that started in 1937. They supplied extracts and syrups to soft drink bottlers, having created their product to compete with other soft drink makers likes Hires and A & W. They were a small company that went out of [...]
“Drink Brownie Club Beverages” Brownie Root Beer was one of the many carbonated beverages made by the Atlas Beverage Company. Atlas was started in Detroit, Michigan around 1929 by a Polish immigrant named Tomaszewski. When he retired, he passed the business to his sons, Walter and Butch. They ran the company together until Walter retired [...]
“Classic Fountain Flavor” The Spring Grove Bottling Works was founded in 1895 by G.G. Ristey in Spring Grove, Minnesota. The soda caught on quickly, and within three years the bottling plant’s production doubled. G.G. Ristey’s brother, J.N. Ristey, joined him as his business partner. In 1913 the brothers sold the business to another set of [...]
“Royal Crown Is Tops In Taste” The Royal Crown Company Inc. was started in Columbus, Georgia in 1905 by Claude A. Hatcher. He was a recent graduate with a degree in pharmacy and first got into the soft drink business by buying bottled drinks from a bottler and reselling them to customers at his family’s [...]
“A Blooming Good Drink” Kreemo Special Root Beer was bottled in the early 1900s by the Cherry Blossoms Company of St. Louis, Missouri. Started in 1909, the Cherry Blossoms Company was also the manufacturer of fruit soft drinks and syrups under the Cherry Blossoms label. The list of ingredients on a bottle of Kreemo sound [...]
“The Billion Bubble Beverage” The Vess Beverage Company was founded by Vess Jones in 1916 in St. Louis, Missouri. Vess specialized in cola and fruit-flavored sodas that were sold primarily in the Midwest. The formula for the popular orange-flavored soda “Whistle” was developed for the Vess Beverage Company by a Vess salesman named Charles Leiper [...]
“Original Fountain Classics” Back in 1924, in Mansfield, Ohio, schoolteacher Frank Stewart was looking to earn additional income during the summer months when school was out of session. After considering what kind of business would do well in his area, he decided to invent his own recipe for a root beer. Stewart opened a chain [...]
“Lemme Have a Lemmy Lemonade” Lemmy Lemonade soda pop was first introduced in 1939. It was a soft drink that contained real lemon juice. It was produced by the A. J. Lehman Company. They also made Limmy soda, which was a lemon-lime flavored soft drink and Tom Collins Jr. This was a lemon-y beverage and [...]
“The Diet Uncola” Like soda was first released in 1963. It was the diet version of the very successful 7 Up soda. The original formula contained a cyclamate sugar substitute. Cyclamates were found to be carcinogens and were banned by the Food and Drug Administration in 1969. The soda was pulled from the market [...]
“Drink Genuine Nehi” According to company legend, the name for Nehi was conceptualized in 1924 in Columbus, Georgia. One day the owner of the Chero-Cola Co., Claud Hatcher, overheard a route salesman describing a competitor’s bottle size as being “knee-high”. He liked the sound of it, and it was the beginning of a line of [...]
