Showing posts with label Pepsi-Cola. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pepsi-Cola. Show all posts

Sunday, August 25, 2024

Most Sensational Baseball Feat Ever Attempted in Virginia -- August 25, 2024

Lynchburg News and Advance, 24-August-1924

Miss Mabel Cody, pioneering barnstorming aviator and wing walker, appeared at a baseball game between the Louisville club and Pepsi-Cola of Richmond. Miss Cody stood on the wing of her biplane and dropped a dozen baseballs. Any player who caught a ball received a ten dollar gold piece. 

The Pepsi-Cola team was unable to appear, but a team from Danville filled in. Lynchburg won 15-0. 


Friday, August 16, 2024

Blue Bird Soda -- Save Every Cap You Can Lay Your Hands On! -- August 16, 2024

Charlotte Observer, 26-August-1924

The Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Charlotte, NC offered a premium to people who collected bottle caps from Blue Bird Soda. "More delicious than Grape Juice." 

Saturday, April 13, 2024

Pepsi-Cola -- When Thinking of Baseball -- Always Think of Pepsi-Cola -- April 13, 2024

Winston-Salem Journal, 08-April-1924

This is the largest Pepsi-Cola ad that I have found. It invites people to think about Pepsi when they attend the opening day of the Winston-Salem Twins in the Piedmont League. The Twins played the Greensboro Patriots and beat them 4-0.

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

It Will Satisfy You -- The REAL PEPSI-COLA, Try It -- January 9, 2024

Twin-City Sentinel, Winston-Salem, 26-January-1924

I found a bunch of tiny Pepsi ads in Winston-Salem newspapers from 100 years ago this month.

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Get Hep to a Smooth Drink, Pepsi-Cola -- April 20, 2022

Washington Evening Star, 13-April-1947

"Pepsi" the Pepsi-Cola Cop and his partner raid a party of "jittery-bugs."


Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Pepsi-Cola -- Good! Good! Good! -- March 16, 2022

Roanoke Rapids Herald, 13-March-1947

I don't think I have seen a Pepsi ad with the caricatured cops before.