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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 [...]
Here at Planet Retro: The BLOG! we love vintage soda pop and it’s rich history. We’re revamping our scores of posts on classic soda pop brands and filing them under a new section: Retro & Vintage Soda Pop. From Like Soda (Diet 7 Up) to local favorites like White Soda and Mr. Cola, we want [...]
Some rare treats for the Coca-Cola fan and collector… Take a look at these vintage originals – coupons, boxes, programs and more – all from the ’50s and ’60s, when a bottle of Coke was just a dime. Back then, it was common for brands to sponsor high school and college sports programs by producing [...]
When the sweltering summer heat sets in, most enjoy cooling off with a nice, cold drink. Typical ice chests keep drinks cold for mere hours, leaving us with a bunch of cans floating in water. A new line of Coca-Cola coolers and mini fridges were designed for tight spaces and travel. With seven different models, [...]
A Part of New England Soda Pop History Preserved If you’re a lover of Moxie Soda, you may enjoy a little history about the famous Moxie bottle stand. It is a 32-foot high by 10-foot wide Moxie Bottle replica that was originally designed as a trade show booth from which to distribute samples of Moxie [...]
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 [...]
“Get Tingleated with Sun Crest” The National NuGrape Company introduced Sun Crest brand soda in 1938. It was created as a companion brand to their other soft drink line, NuGrape. Sun Crest soda was available in the following flavors: Orange, Strawberry, Grape, Pineapple, Peach, Cherry and Grapefruit. Sun Crest became the property of The Moxie [...]
“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 [...]
