Showing posts with label soft drinks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soft drinks. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Orange Crush -- After School -- April 16, 2025

Battle Creek Enquirer, 24-April-1925

"When they come trooping home from school, flushed and tired -- then's the time for generous glasses of Orange-Crush. Give them all they like."

Monday, April 14, 2025

Coca-Cola -- Zestful -- April 14, 2025

Atlantic City Gazette-Review, 08-April-1925

This ad touts the virtues of drinking bottled Coca-Cola, instead of Coke mixed in soda fountains.

Sunday, March 16, 2025

Saturday, March 15, 2025

Baseball and Coca-Cola -- March 15, 2025

Macon Telegraph, 22-March-1925

This ad announces that "Coca-Cola Will Be Sold INSIDE The Baseball Park This Season." The Macon Peaches played in the South Atlantic League. 

Saturday, February 15, 2025

A New Way of Buying Cascade Ginger Ale -- February 15, 2025

Winston-Salem Sentinel, 08-April-1924

Cascade Ginger Ale offered its wares in what we would now call a six-pack. They also threw in a "hostess booklet" entitled "When Company Comes."

Thursday, February 13, 2025

Saturday, January 11, 2025

Drink Dr Pepper King of Beverages -- January 11, 2025

Waco News-Tribune, 01-January-1925

I have had trouble finding ads for Dr Pepper. In this ad, The Dr Pepper Bottling Company wishes a happy 1925 to its friends.

I like Dr Pepper.

Friday, January 10, 2025

Coca-Cola -- Refresh Yourself at Home -- January 10, 2024

Monroe Louisiana News-Star, 07-January-1925

A can of Diet Coke sits on my desk as I create this post. 

Saturday, December 14, 2024

NuGrape -- There is Nothing Better to Have in the Home During XMAS -- November 14, 2024

Brownsville Herald, 21-December-1924

Christmas is coming. 

I understand that NuGrape is still being produced, but I have never had one. It is available in the Southeastern US and Washington state.

Friday, December 13, 2024

Coca-Cola -- At This Glad Yuletide -- December 13, 2024

Dawson Georgia News, 23-December-1924

Christmas is coming.

The Dawson (Georgia) Coca-Cola Bottling Company offered Yuletide wishes to all.

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." 

Thursday, August 15, 2024

Coca-Cola -- Our Modern Bottling Plant -- August 15, 2024

Montgomery Advertiser, 12-August-1924

Coca-Cola ads frequently assured customers that their bottling plants were up to date and clean. "untouched by human hands"

Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Orange Crush -- Worth Fightin' For! -- July 16, 2024

Middlesboro Daily News, 03-July-1924

I seem to be on an Orange Crush streak, but I like this ad.

Monday, July 15, 2024

Red Hot Weather! -- July 15, 2024

Cordele, Georgia Dispatch and Daily Sentinel, 30-July-1924

In light of the record heat wave afflicting much of the United States, I thought I would post this Coca-Cola ad. "Everybody talks about it! Why not do something about it?"

Friday, June 21, 2024

Coca-Cola -- Stop! Refresh Yourself -- June 21, 2024

Cordele, Alaska Dispatch and Daily Sentinel, 20-June-1924

In this Coca-Cola ad, a jolly-looking policeman orders us to stop and refresh ourselves. 

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

NuGrape -- Young America With But a Single Thought -- May 14, 2024

Birmingham Age-Herald, 25-May-1924

I understand that NuGrape is still being produced, but I have never had one. It is available in the Southeastern US and Washington state.

Sunday, May 12, 2024

Refresh Yourself Says the Hostess -- May 12, 2024

Americus Times-Recorder, 31-May-1924

"Of course -- this beverage -- the favorite at soda fountains and refreshment stands
everywhere -- is welcomed with delight in homes."

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, March 12, 2024

All Kinds of Soda Water Including Dr. Pepper and Red Diamond Root Beer -- March 12, 2024

Columbia Star, 27-March-1924

I have been having trouble finding ads for Dr Pepper. I had a Diet Dr Pepper this afternoon. I'm not sure about Red Diamond Root Beer, but it may have been manufactured in Birmingham, Alabama.