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Posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Sat May 14 14:53:21 2022 Back in the 50's the buses of the Newburgh-Beacon Bus Company where painted in the Pepsi-Cola Livery. The front of the bus featured a hugh Pepsi bottle cap. I believe that several bus agencies used this form of advertising. Does anyone remember this? Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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Posted by William A. Padron on Sat May 14 20:44:00 2022, in response to Does Anyone Remember the Pepsi Cola Buses?, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Sat May 14 14:53:21 2022. Back in the 50's the buses of the Newburgh-Beacon Bus Company where painted in the Pepsi-Cola Livery. The front of the bus featured a hugh Pepsi bottle cap.I believe that several bus agencies used this form of advertising. Does anyone remember this? San Francisco's MUNI had many of its buses and trolley coaches with Pepsi signs and advertising in the front. Other beverage advertisers included Mug Root Beer (founded locally in San Francisco, but distributed by Pepsi nationwide), Coors and Squirt (a grapefruit soda much like Fresca or Mello Yello).         Also, Johnstown Traction Company used to put those Pepsi caps signs on their streetcars back then, including the PCC's. -William A. Padron ["The Pepsi Generation"] |
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Posted by Joe on Sat May 14 20:55:33 2022, in response to Does Anyone Remember the Pepsi Cola Buses?, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Sat May 14 14:53:21 2022. Yes, I recall buses with below-the-windshield Pepsi bottle caps somewhere, but the caps were about 18" or 24" in diameter. There was no Pepsi ad near them. New Jersey? Pennsylvania? |
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Posted by William A. Padron on Sat May 14 23:23:23 2022, in response to Re: Does Anyone Remember the Pepsi Cola Buses?, posted by William A. Padron on Sat May 14 20:44:00 2022. And those PCC's on the Johnstown, PA streetcar system, with the Pepsi Caps signs in front. They were featured on the older model ones too, which those cars are now scattered in different traction museums throughout the country.  -William A. Padron ["Roxbury"] |
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Posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Sun May 15 08:27:45 2022, in response to Re: Does Anyone Remember the Pepsi Cola Buses?, posted by William A. Padron on Sat May 14 20:44:00 2022. William: Thank you for these pictures. I always remembered those bottlecaps as being huge. It amazing how many things get smaller as we get older. Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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Posted by Andy on Sun May 15 10:20:39 2022, in response to Does Anyone Remember the Pepsi Cola Buses?, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Sat May 14 14:53:21 2022. On Long Island, where I have resided most of my life, I remember the pre-MSBA private companies, Schenck Transportation in particular, had large front end caps advertising 7up and Pepsi. |
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Posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Sun May 15 15:41:10 2022, in response to Re: Does Anyone Remember the Pepsi Cola Buses?, posted by Andy on Sun May 15 10:20:39 2022. Hi Andy: Nice to hear from you. Is 7 Up soda still a thing. Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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Posted by William A. Padron on Sun May 15 16:14:37 2022, in response to Re: Does Anyone Remember the Pepsi Cola Buses?, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Sun May 15 15:41:10 2022. Is 7 Up soda still a thing.Yeah, but Sprite seems to take that thunder in the lemon-lime soda market. I did see a 7 Up can with "Zero Sugar" in a deli once. -William A. Padron ["Dr. Pepper"] |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun May 15 16:19:38 2022, in response to Re: Does Anyone Remember the Pepsi Cola Buses?, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Sun May 15 15:41:10 2022. I’m drinking a can of diet 7 Up right now. |
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Posted by Edwards! on Sun May 15 23:09:47 2022, in response to Re: Does Anyone Remember the Pepsi Cola Buses?, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Sun May 15 15:41:10 2022. "7 Up" just made a recent comeback..Saw plenty of older brands in the Southern States earlier this year.. Mello Yello is the first to come to mind. |
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Posted by William A. Padron on Mon May 16 00:12:30 2022, in response to Re: Does Anyone Remember the Pepsi Cola Buses?, posted by Edwards! on Sun May 15 23:09:47 2022. Mello Yello bottled by Coca-Cola.7 Up and Dr. Pepper are co-owned with each other. Pepsi has Sierra Mist. Seen them all stocked at the local CVS Pharmacy in my neighborhood (Jackson Heights, Queens). -William A. Padron ["Zero Sugar"] |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon May 16 10:28:43 2022, in response to Re: Does Anyone Remember the Pepsi Cola Buses?, posted by William A. Padron on Mon May 16 00:12:30 2022. 7 Up is regularly sold in supermarkets and grocery stores about as commonly as Coke and Pepsi. It just doesn’t appear as often in fountain drinks becase they’re mostly Sprite, or Sierra Mist if Pepsi. 7 Up pretty much has none of the fountain market. |
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Posted by randyo on Mon May 16 19:29:15 2022, in response to Re: Does Anyone Remember the Pepsi Cola Buses?, posted by Spider-Pig on Mon May 16 10:28:43 2022. My local American Legion post has Pepsi as its cola and Sprite for its lemon (7UP substitute) mixer. |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Mon May 16 20:42:22 2022, in response to Does Anyone Remember the Pepsi Cola Buses?, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Sat May 14 14:53:21 2022.  Many of Boston's trackless trolleys had Pepsi signs, when I first entered college. They were definitely on the Harvard-Massachusetts line before the wires came down. This picture is obviously on the Harvard-Lechemere line, which was Boston Elevated's first trackless line. |
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Posted by Andy on Wed May 18 11:37:03 2022, in response to Re: Does Anyone Remember the Pepsi Cola Buses?, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Sun May 15 15:41:10 2022. Hi Larry, good to hear from you. I don't drink much soda anymore, except as a mixer (tonic water and seltzer). Haven't had 7UP in years.Schweppes once made a lemon flavored tonic called Bitter Lemon, which I liked, but it's not made anymore - at least in the US. |
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