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My Mountain Dew collection
The Charlie and Jim bottle below is my first Hillbilly Mountain Dew bottle, which of course started it all. The collection isn't anywhere near as huge as some of the collections of the name bottle collectors; however, I preferred to collect the bottles from every era of Mountain Dew history. Of course the Mountain Dew collection is my favorite of the few brand collections that I have continued to collect since shifting to local bottles. Included are some other items that are part of the Mountian Dew collection as well. I hope you like it. I also have a page dedicated to the imitators and competition of Mountain Dew as well check it out here.
Two early Mountain Dew bottles from Tri-City Beverage the first franchise for Mountain Dew. The Charlie and Jim is a 9oz from 1956, and the Charlie and Bill is from 1965, note the dot above the Hillbilly's head.
Four sizes of Hillbilly Mountain Dew bottles 8oz, 10oz, 12oz, and 16oz.
An interesting 12oz Hillbilly bottle that was used in North Carolina. What is interesting is that instead of using the slogan "It'll Tickle your innards!" it uses the slogan "Mountain Dew is good!"
Two Mountain Dew sample cups from the early days of Mountain dew.
Two 10oz tall Hillbilly Mountain Dew ND/NR (No Deposit / No Return) bottles.
Two 10oz squat Hillbilly Mountain Dew ND/NR (No Deposit / No Return) bottles. Note that one has the dimples all over the bottle and the other one is smooth in the middle.
A 10oz screw top Hillbilly Mountain Dew ND/NR (No Deposit / No Return) bottle dated 1969, and a One Pint Hillbilly Mountain Dew ND/NR.
A 10oz Hillbilly "Laughing Pig" Mountain Dew bottle.
Two 10oz squat Hillbilly Mountain Dew ND/NR (No Deposit / No Return) bottles from Canada. Notice that the artwork and font is based on the "Laughing Pig" bottle.
Four sizes of the "Yahoo" bottles which replaced the Hillbilly bottles when Pepsi wanted to distance the brand from it's origins. Shown in order are a 8oz, 10oz, 10oz from Canada, and a 12oz.
Two 16oz "Yahoo" Mountain Dew ND/NR (No Deposit / No Return) paper label bottles
Two "Yahoo" Mountain Dew ND/NR (No Deposit / No Return) paper label bottles the left one is a 28oz and the other is a 32oz.
12oz Mountian Dew cans, one is a "Yahoo!" can and the other is after they dropped the Hillbilly connection in the 1970's.
Four sizes of the bottles that are the most remembered and most common of the Mountain Dew bottles. Shown in order are a 8oz, 10oz, 12oz (which is actually uncommon), and a 16oz.
Three more Mountain Dew bottles, shown in order are a Half Liter, 32oz, and a 1 Liter.
Two 10oz Mountain Dew ND/NR (No Deposit / No Return) bottles, the squat one on the left is a Canadian version, while the one on the right is American.
10oz Mountain Dew ND/NR (No Deposit / No Return) paper label bottle
Mountain Dew ND/NR (No Deposit / No Return) bottles the left one is a 28oz paper label, and the right one is a 64oz, which is a forerunner of the modern day 2 liters, foam label.
10oz Mountain Dew Southern flue-cured tobacco festival commemorative bottle.
10oz Mountain Dew foam label bottle.
16oz Mountain Dew ND/NR (No Deposit / No Return) bottle 16ga screw top, and the later wrap around paper label 16oz.
Four Mountain Dew bottles from the nineties that would be the last refillable bottles used. Shown in order are a 10oz, Half Liter, 16oz, and a Diet Mountain Dew 16oz.
This logo was used during 1996-1998.
The days of the returnable bottles being numbered the brand started being bottled in the "Longneck" bottles which were actually ND/NR (No Deposit / No Return) with, for the most part, painted labels. This type of bottle is still used today by the independant bottlers like Dr. Pepper Bottling Company of West Jefferson, NC.
The two bottles on the left were part of the "Dew Crew" series of bottles which were nascar based commemortive bottles, the right one is a bottle used by West Jefferson, NC around 2005.
This logo was used through to the end of 2008.
16oz Green Art “Bill Hilly” bottle released in 2007
The two bottles bottles by Dr. Pepper of West Jefferson, NC, during 2008.
A 12oz West Jefferson NC Diet Mountain Dew longneck from 2009.
Never seen these before, I'm not surprised they only appeared on the market in the early months of 2009, and were quickly pulled in favor of another design, much to my relief. I really hated this design; however, as a collector I have to have a copy. The can I had to get off of eBay, but the 20oz I found around where I lived.
After the design above was pulled they replaced it with the much more aggressive one on these two cans, it's still kind of lame; however, it beats the alternative.
The best idea Mountain had in many years of force feeding us High Fructose Corn Syrup, Mountain Dew Throwback was sweetened with real sugar.
