UPDATES

12-07-08: New information on the start of Julep Bottling Company of Kingsport, Holston Bottling Company of Kingsport’s announcement of bankruptcy, a new ad and an interesting note about the company from 1942. I also found some new information about the name change of Cheer-Up Bottling Company to Beverages Inc. All of which has led me to divide Julep, Holston, and Cheer-up into their own pages. I also found out when Nehi in Bristol actually stated bottling. I found ads for Canada Dry of Bristol, and Orange Crush of Johnson City.

12-01-08: New information on the start up of Kingsport Chero-Cola and the date they moved to Main Street, the date that the Julep Bottling Company of Kingsport went out of business, the exact date that Nesbitt-Fleenor bottling company of Kingsport started operations. New ads for Julep, Nesbitt-Fleenor, Dr. Pepper of Johnson City, Pepsi of Johnson City, Rice‘s Bottling Company of Johnson City. I have also split up Pepsi-Cola and Rice‘s Bottling Company of Johnson City into their own pages.

11-19-08: New bottles and information including a blue and white label Sun Rise Beverages, and a 2 to 1 from Tazewell, VA, at least four Pocahontas Beverages bottles from Falls Mills and Pocahontas, VA, and a couple of new Sunflower Beverage bottles from the Tip Corporation of Marion, VA, also new information on the Was-cott/Sun Rise Bottling Company of Tazewell, VA, and a new theory on who was bottling the Tip Corporation’s brands in Marion, VA.

11-09-08: New bottles including a flint glass Chero-Cola from Bristol, VA-Tenn., 7oz and 8oz (“King Size”) Grapette bottles from Rice‘s Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Johnson City, TN, a 1953 Dr. Pepper variant from Bluefield, VA, a 1914 Soda Water bottle from the Coca-Cola Bottling Works of Norton, VA. Thanks to Christopher A. Weide I now have pictures of a 1941 Lucky Giant from the Sun-Rise Bottling Company of Tazewell, VA, a 1948 7oz Lonesome Pine Beverages bottle from St. Paul, VA (oldest bottle I have ever seen of this brand), a 1953 11oz Lonesome Pine Beverages from Vansant, VA, and finally a 1941 Holston‘s Beverages from Kingsport, TN.

10-22-08: New bottles including a Chero-Cola from Cleveland, VA, Pepsi-Cola from Appalachia, Unaka Bottling Works from Johnson City, Bristol Canada Dry, some new information and corrections gathered from my latest finds while looking up company owners using the Federal Census records (effecting Coeburn bottling companies mostly), and a new very early bottling company from Appalachia, VA.

09-09-08: Thanks to Tommy Fouch I have updated quite a few of my photos for better ones and filled in a few of the gaps on some of the towns. There are new bottles, new information, new ads, and quite a few changes.

07-21-08: Thanks to Charlie Barnette I now have pictures of early Hutchinson bottles that I may never actually be able to lay my hands on. With these pictures I have updated the Crystal Bottling & Cider Company of Graham, VA, R. F. Powers & Co. and Coeburn Bottling Works of Coeburn, VA, Clinch Valley Bottling Works of Richlands, VA, Marion Bottling Works of Marion, VA, and created town new pages for Fort Blackmore, VA and Castlewood, VA.

07-13-08: Updated the J. C. Layman site with some new information I just found online. New picture posted of the Cheer-Up / Doughboy bottling plant as it appears today, finally have a picture of the building that once held Nesbitt-Fleenor bottling company, and new ads and updated info on Chero-Cola of Kingsport, TN. New information on the Was-Cott / Sunrise site, along with a new ad, new short lived bottling company found in Tazewell (Pepsi-Cola), and finally found more information on the beginning of 7-Up of Richlands. I've also found new information about Coca-Cola being bottled in Coeburn, VA. I have also posted pictures of a Sunflower Beverages bottle from DR PEPPER OF MARION, a 12oz 1950 "2 full glasses" Pepsi bottle on the Marion Bottling Company page, also a recently discovered 3-C Nectar variation from Graham, VA.