PEPSI-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY

It appears that the property formerly occupied by the Chero-Cola Bottling Company, which was sold in 1935 to A. B. Hatcher of Charleston, WV, has been purchased by H. P. Hunnicutt by 1938 who would open the longest operating bottling company in Princeton WV, The Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company.(1) They would move to 1233-1243 Mercer Street by 1944.(1) They would move to South Walker near the City Limits by 1950.(1) Eventually they would build a brand new plant on Rogers Street which would be their location to today even though they stopped bottling in 2004, after the opening of the new Pepsi plant in Wytheville, VA.

12oz Hunnicutt's bottle dated 1940. Bearing a remarkable resemblance to the paper label Pepsi Hartman's bottles from Knoxville, it becomes apparent that these too were the individual Pepsi paper label bottles that were prevalent before standardization of the bottles in the later 1940's.

12oz Pepsi-Cola Fountain Syrup bottle dated 1943

12oz Pepsi-Cola bottle dated 1947

10oz acl Bluestone Beverages bottle dated 1948

10oz embossed Bluestone Beverages bottle dated 1949

12oz Pepsi-Cola bottle dated 1955

12oz Pepsi-Cola bottle dated 1959

Found on a No Deposit / No Return 28oz bottle in a 70's era Tazewell County dump was this cap that indicates that Pepsi-Cola of Princeton, WV picked up Canada Dry after Coca-Cola of Bluefield ceased bottling.

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