“Take Home a Carton, It’s Easy to Carry” We’re used to the sight of cardboard six-pack carriers for bottled beverages but when the Coca-Cola Company first introduced the cardboard carrier carton, it was quite a great innovation.     The Coca-Cola Company introduced cardboard six-pack carriers in 1923. Although others have taken credit for the

The design of the Coca-Cola bottle as we know it today was invented 100 years ago this year.     Beginning in 1899 Coke was bottled in amber or clear glass bottles with straight sides. Competing manufacturers were producing imitations with bottles and labels so similar to the Coca-Cola brand that the Coca-Cola Company was

Coca-Cola is everywhere you look nowadays, available in plastic bottles and cans in a variety of sizes. A lot of people might not realize that at one time you either bought Coke in a 7-ounce embossed green glass bottle or in a cup at a restaurant or soda fountain. And when you bought a Coke

During the ’50s and ’60s, hundreds of different branded picnic coolers were produced. These metal coolers came in different sizes, and some featured bottle openers on the unit. One of the most popular brands emblazoned on these vintage coolers was Coca-Cola. Collectors of this line of coolers seek out specific variations in the text included with

Donald Duck soft drinks were the first sodas to be produced by General Beverages, Inc. of Chattanooga, Tennessee. These fruit flavored sodas were introduced in the 1940s.

2-Way Soda was a lemon-lime flavored soda bottled by the National NuGrape Company. 2-Way seems to have been discontinued some time in the early 1960s.

This label is for Wharton Ginger Ale, bottled by the Wharton Bottling Works in Wharton, Texas. It most likely dates from some time in the 1930s or 1940s.

Sun-Drop soda was developed in 1949 by Charles Lazier of St. Louis, Missouri. The citrus drink was known for the boost it gave due to the caffeine content.

This is a circa 1930s label for Dartmouth Dry Whiskey Sour. This drink mixer was bottled by the Newport Bottling Works in Newport, New Hampshire.

The Whooppee Soda Works was founded in 1929 in Garfield, New Jersey by Antonio and Maria Graceffo. They were known for using real cane sugar and natural flavorings.