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QUICK "POPEYE SODA" QUESTION - 9/1/2010 9:25:17 PM    SODAPOPBOB   Posts: 3678 Joined: 3/10/2010 Status: offline                        Quick Question :  Was there such a thing as "Popeye" soda pop? I have found items like the reproduction sign below. But otherwise I can't find anything about the real deal. Nor can I find any history about it. Anything to shed some light on this subject would be very much appreciated. Especially a photo of the bottle if you have one ... if it exist ... if ... if ... if ... ? Thanks, SODA"POPEYE"BOB    Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: QUICK "POPEYE SODA" QUESTION - 9/1/2010 10:18:27 PM    morbious_fod   Posts: 4020 Joined: 3/4/2007 From: The backwoods of the backwoods, Virginia Status: offline Yeah and it tasted like spinich! Ah ga ga ga ga ga! Actually I have seen a piece of advertising in the soda pop book for this brand. Looks to be the same bottle, though I've never seen a real bottle. Wouldn't mind one of these myself. Ah ga ga ga ga ga! Well blows me down, while I was looking online for something about the brand I came across this creepy version of Popeye. Attachment (1) _____________________________ My website chronicling the soda bottling companies of the Southwest Virginia or Northeast Tennessee area including Bluefield, Princeton, and Rock West Virginia www.tazewell-orange.com NEW ARTICLES: Just say Mil-Kay the story of Mil-K-Botl (in reply to SODAPOPBOB) Post #: 2

RE: QUICK "POPEYE SODA" QUESTION - 9/1/2010 10:19:24 PM    morbious_fod   Posts: 4020 Joined: 3/4/2007 From: The backwoods of the backwoods, Virginia Status: offline As far as Popeye branded sweets, check these out. Popeye candy cigarettes. I'll gladly pay your Tuesday for a Mountain Dew Party Jug bought today. Attachment (1) < Message edited by morbious_fod -- 9/1/2010 10:20:06 PM > _____________________________ My website chronicling the soda bottling companies of the Southwest Virginia or Northeast Tennessee area including Bluefield, Princeton, and Rock West Virginia www.tazewell-orange.com NEW ARTICLES: Just say Mil-Kay the story of Mil-K-Botl (in reply to morbious_fod) Post #: 3

RE: QUICK "POPEYE SODA" QUESTION - 9/1/2010 10:53:54 PM    SODAPOPBOB   Posts: 3678 Joined: 3/10/2010 Status: offline Man!  ................................................................................................................................... Thanks Are you trying to give me nightmares?  That Popeye painting will haunt me all night. I remember candy cigarettes. They used to have a red tip. My buddies and I would walk around with them dangling from our lips, thinking it looked cool. If anyone comes up with a bottle or something to prove the existence of the soda pop, please post it. Thanks, SODA "I YAM WHAT I YAM" BOB     (in reply to morbious_fod) Post #: 4

RE: QUICK "POPEYE SODA" QUESTION - 9/2/2010 12:15:28 AM    acls   Posts: 802 Joined: 6/2/2005 Status: offline I remember reading something in a very old Soda Net magazine about a collector who said he saw one (a Popeye soda bottle) on display at a Popeye's Chicken restaurant. Ever since I read that my interest has been piqued too Bob. _____________________________ Click here to see my: ACL SODA BOTTLES FOR SALE & TRADE. (in reply to SODAPOPBOB) Post #: 5

RE: QUICK "POPEYE SODA" QUESTION - 9/15/2010 12:02:51 AM    bottleaddict   Posts: 14 Joined: 9/2/2009 Status: offline Interesting thread too say the least.I sold a unused popeye soda bottle cap on ebay several years ago too a popeye collector in Texas. I found the cap in a mason jar I bought in Maine. The jar (and cap) cost me 8.00 and I sold the cap because I only collect bottles and jars. The cap sold for an amazing $158.75. I wish I had a picture of it but unfortunatly do not. If the cap brought that much one can only guess how much the bottle bring. (in reply to acls) Post #: 6

RE: QUICK "POPEYE SODA" QUESTION - 9/15/2010 1:21:40 PM    SODAPOPBOB   Posts: 3678 Joined: 3/10/2010 Status: offline bottleaddict ~ Thanks for the Popeye info, and welcome to the forum. Where there's smoke there's fire. And where's there's a bottle cap there must be a bottle. But I sure wish I could find a photo of one. I've given up the search because I don't even know where to look anymore. Is it that rare and hard to find?  Must be!  ??? SPBOB  (in reply to bottleaddict) Post #: 7

RE: QUICK "POPEYE SODA" QUESTION - 9/15/2010 6:33:52 PM    fishnuts Posts: 513 Joined: 8/5/2010 Status: offline Probably my friend, Bruce who could've paid that much for a Popeye crown. He is possibly  the foremost Popeye collector and expert on that subject...and from Texas. We discussed his bidding on that item...maybe, now that I think of it he might have lost it at the last moment.  The topic was "Did I have one of the sodas?"  Which,  of course, I don't.  And he doesn't either.  And he had never heard of such a thing until the crown came up for auction.  Which led us to both ask, "Then, where are any bottles?  Wouldn't there have to be many many examples, one would think"   Together we have over 80years experience in collecting comic related items.  Add the other advanced collectors getting in on the conversation at the last Oklahoma Alliance of  Fans convention lat October, and no one knew of a Popeye Soda brand.  It is a mystery. We do know the tin sign is not real, or vintage.  But, then what did the crown fit on? _____________________________ ...trading anything I got for anything I want more...especially from Arkansas and the South (in reply to SODAPOPBOB) Post #: 8

RE: QUICK "POPEYE SODA" QUESTION - 9/15/2010 6:49:24 PM    SODAPOPBOB   Posts: 3678 Joined: 3/10/2010 Status: offline I'm sure by now most of us have seen these "new" bottle caps on e-bay. Surely no one paid $158.75 for one of these? No way! But it still adds to the mystery of why make a reproduction if the original bottle and cap didn't exist. I expect someone will eventually turn up with a bottle someday and say ...     "Oh ... you mean this ol' thing? Gee, I never realized until now it was worth a jillion dollars!"  Attachment (1) < Message edited by SODAPOPBOB -- 9/15/2010 6:52:42 PM > (in reply to fishnuts) Post #: 9

RE: QUICK "POPEYE SODA" QUESTION - 9/15/2010 6:57:15 PM    SODAPOPBOB   Posts: 3678 Joined: 3/10/2010 Status: offline P.S. ~ If someone is better at photo editing/enlarging than I am, please crop and enlarge (in focus if possible) one of the bottles that Popeye is holding in the reproduction sign shown at the top of this thread. Maybe by doing this we will discover a clue of some kind. Or it may be a fantasy image just like the sign itself. ??? Thanks, SPBOB < Message edited by SODAPOPBOB -- 9/15/2010 7:02:18 PM > (in reply to SODAPOPBOB) Post #: 10

RE: QUICK "POPEYE SODA" QUESTION - 9/15/2010 7:50:36 PM    SODAPOPBOB   Posts: 3678 Joined: 3/10/2010 Status: offline My eyes are "popped" out from scrolling through some of the 9,930 current Popeye listings on e-bay. Although I did find the "fantasy/reproduction" sign shown below. But is it the image of a real Popeye Soda bottle, or what? It even indicates the various flavors it came in. I also looked through a ton of old Popeye magazine ads, but found nothing whatsoever related to soda pop. (At least not the real deal). I may have to give up ... or at least until I can find some spinach to boost my energy.  Lol    Attachment (1) < Message edited by SODAPOPBOB -- 9/15/2010 7:52:02 PM > (in reply to SODAPOPBOB) Post #: 11

RE: QUICK "POPEYE SODA" QUESTION - 9/16/2010 1:04:27 PM    fishnuts Posts: 513 Joined: 8/5/2010 Status: offline omg...look at that bottle will you. That sucker is screened in red, yellow, orange, purple, white, flesh tone, brown and black. Seven colors.  Seven colors?  rofl  A screen printers nightmare!  On a cylindrical object?  That alone should  be enough evidence that there is no Popeye Punch as this faux-retro sign shows. _____________________________ ...trading anything I got for anything I want more...especially from Arkansas and the South (in reply to SODAPOPBOB) Post #: 12

RE: QUICK "POPEYE SODA" QUESTION - 9/16/2010 1:17:19 PM    celerycola   Posts: 1143 Joined: 2/20/2004 From: Alabama Status: offline Here's a train load of those seven color acl's. Attachment (1) (in reply to fishnuts) Post #: 13

RE: QUICK "POPEYE SODA" QUESTION - 9/16/2010 2:00:05 PM    SODAPOPBOB   Posts: 3678 Joined: 3/10/2010 Status: offline I found this regarding an edition of the Soda Fizz magazine from April of 2005. Look in the "At The Auction" category and you will see a listing for a Popeye bottle. Surely it's the real deal as I don't think this organization messes around with imaginary bottles. Perhaps someone who is personally familar with the Soda Fizz folks could send them an inquiry and see what they have to say. SPBOB   The Soda Fizz ~ March/April 2005 ~ Vol. 3, No. 2 From the Publisher Member Network   Letters to the Editor, and more.. From "Chero Mike"    Studebaker Coca-Cola bottle from 1983 on eBay, Jackson, Miss. Show Report Baltimore Show Report Looking Back At Barq's Bottles    By Bill Lockhart, Alamogordo, N.M. Go-Withs Book Review - Makers & Their Marks by Julian Toulouse    By Mike Elling, Sharon, Tenn. At the Auction    Mug Old Fashioned Root Beer, Black Kow, Seven-Up, Country Boy, Blue Bird, Popeye, Coca-    Cola, Meyer's Quality Bev., Nehi, Evervess, Mountain Dew, Beehive Bev., White Rose, Koca-    Nola, High Hat Quarts     By Fred Arwood Photographing Bottles     By Charles Harris, Ooltewah, Tenn. Classified Ads Show Calendar (in reply to celerycola) Post #: 14

RE: QUICK "POPEYE SODA" QUESTION - 9/16/2010 3:10:18 PM    fishnuts Posts: 513 Joined: 8/5/2010 Status: offline Seriously SPBob? That's a photo of a model train car and trailer. The two bottles on the two fake signs are not even  the same design.  So there must be two!?  rofl Doe the auction article allude to the bottle or the crown at auction? Somebody show us a photo of the Popeye Punch!  Or the Popeye Drink!  Or any such thing. _____________________________ ...trading anything I got for anything I want more...especially from Arkansas and the South (in reply to SODAPOPBOB) Post #: 15

RE: QUICK "POPEYE SODA" QUESTION - 9/16/2010 3:27:50 PM    SODAPOPBOB   Posts: 3678 Joined: 3/10/2010 Status: offline fishnuts ~ As for the article itself, and whether it is referring to the crown cap or the bottle I cannot say. I just copy/pasted that info from the internet. Perhaps someone has a copy of the actual magazine and can answer your question. Regarding your other comments ... 1.  I agree the toy train (that celerycola posted) is a repro/fantasy item. 2.  I agree with the "possibility" of there being two different bottles. But at the moment I would settle     for the photo of just one. (If one even exist ... which I believe it does. But I could be wrong). ??? Thanks, SPBOB  < Message edited by SODAPOPBOB -- 9/16/2010 3:32:03 PM > (in reply to fishnuts) Post #: 16

RE: QUICK "POPEYE SODA" QUESTION - 9/16/2010 3:56:53 PM    fishnuts Posts: 513 Joined: 8/5/2010 Status: offline Well, crud then. I just moved last October.  I kept the membership issues of Soda Fizz, but threw most of them out rather than moving them. I did excise and keep all the articles i wanted, good photos  but not the newsy bits or much of the historical and certainly not the advertising or auction results..  We could have solved the article question easily. No, probably not, because most of that collectors books and identifying guides are still packed up in the barn...i would not know where to look, or couldn't get to them thru the piles. _____________________________ ...trading anything I got for anything I want more...especially from Arkansas and the South (in reply to SODAPOPBOB) Post #: 17

RE: QUICK "POPEYE SODA" QUESTION - 9/18/2010 2:05:27 AM    thesodafizz   Posts: 203 Joined: 1/13/2008 From: East Tennessee Status: offline quote: Popeye I have lost all the electronic copies of each magazine I did, but have most of them as actual printed magazines. So, I went to the issue mentioned and found: The At the Auction Popeye item is a crowncap that ended for $162.50. It is different than the one posted, with a sailboat instead of the likeness of Popeye. I only have the b/w image that appeared in the auction, but it is better than nothing. K Attachment (1) (in reply to SODAPOPBOB) Post #: 18

RE: QUICK "POPEYE SODA" QUESTION - 9/18/2010 10:35:37 AM    SODAPOPBOB   Posts: 3678 Joined: 3/10/2010 Status: offline K ~ Wow! Thank you so much for that. Now if someone can just find a photo of the bottle itself the world will be complete. It's like bottleaddict said earlier, "if the cap sold for that much, just think what a bottle would go for?" We're probably talking in the $500.00+ range. I'd eat all of my spinach and go back for seconds for a shot at one of them thar bottles.  SPBOB  (in reply to thesodafizz) Post #: 19

RE: QUICK "POPEYE SODA" QUESTION - 9/18/2010 12:20:54 PM    morbious_fod   Posts: 4020 Joined: 3/4/2007 From: The backwoods of the backwoods, Virginia Status: offline You do have that crossover thing with Popeye collectors and bottle collectors alike looking for one. _____________________________ My website chronicling the soda bottling companies of the Southwest Virginia or Northeast Tennessee area including Bluefield, Princeton, and Rock West Virginia www.tazewell-orange.com NEW ARTICLES: Just say Mil-Kay the story of Mil-K-Botl (in reply to SODAPOPBOB) Post #: 20

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