UPDATES

02-14-10: Quite a few new pictures in Appalachia, Kingsport, Johnson City, Marion, and on the Tip Beverages page amongst others. The big additions are the Max Licht Mountain Dew article where a 1928 advertisement from a Knoxville, TN paper sheds new light on the possible true origins of the Mountain Dew brand. The next is an article on a local bottle that is well known to local collectors, the famous Lonesome Pine Beverages brand. Don’t just wait for these updates as I am constantly adding something to this website and never make any mention of what has been added. You never know what is going to show up next.

01-17-10 Not a huge amount of updates this time, I have updated the Tenn-Cola Bottling Company of Kingsport site, both the Kingsport page and Big Stone Gap page are the same now as you will see when you read the information. This one still puzzles me as they have Kingsport Tenn. as part of the name, but every piece of evidence I have found about the company points to it’s main office and bottling plant being in Big Stone Gap although the companies’ president lives in Kingsport. There has to be more to the story of this company, I’ll keep digging. New information has been added to the Dixie Coca-Cola site, I have added a picture to the Princeton Bottling and Ice company site, it is a crate from the Princeton Bottling Works. I have a new bottle from Coca-Cola of Bluefield, yet another of the 16oz Pocahontas variations (that’s nine now), two 10oz Coca-Cola variations for the Vansant, VA site, and updated pictures for Pepsi of Norton, 7 up of Bristol. Last but not least is the Lemon Kola article that I just posted. I plan on continuing to research this brand as well as King Cola and Tenn-cola.

11-26-09 I know it's been a while since my last update, the delay was due to so much information coming in and very little time to work it all in. I still have much to work in and more coming in very soon; however, it's time to get a post up. I have been hitting the old Bluefield Newspapers lately which actually led to some information and ads gathered for that area, changes made are in Pocahontas VA, Bluefield, VA, Graham, VA, Bluefield WV, and even Princeton WV. I even found a couple of bottlers that were as yet unknown to me until this research brought them forward, those being the Cane Cola Bottling Company of Graham, VA, and the Epping Bottling Company branch plant in Graham, VA. I have also finally found enough information on the F. P. Cummings bottles from Pocahontas, VA to launch that page in that area. F. P. Cummings is looking to be the very first soda bottler in that area, also check out the Pocahontas Liquor section for a Pabst Brewing Company bottle from Pocahontas, VA and the new information on the branch beer bottling houses of Pocahontas. In Appalachia I have created a page for the Virginia Wholesale Company's Bottling Works which I finally verified bottles from. For you Johnson City collectors, I've finally gotten serious about searching through the microfilms of that city, I have updates on most of those bottlers. I also started a section on Elizabethton TN. bottling companies.

09-12-09: I've been very busy lately. I have updated all of the Marion site, including better images of the ads, and some updated information on Dr. Pepper of Marion. I also visited Lee County last week and found more information on the bottling companies of St. Charles and Pennington Gap, VA. There are various other updates all over the site, but the most important of all is a new section called collections where I can post pictures of the bottles I own that have very little or nothing to do with my local area. I already have the Mountain Dew page, Mountain Dew Imitators page, Cheerwine, and ND/NR pages up already. I have some new information on the Tip brand and will update that soon.