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SunDrop Golden Girl Cola - 6/10/2009 3:46:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's a nice amber 1 gallon SunDrop Cola Syrup jug I got out of my truck load deal the other day . I have seen a few in clear but 1st amber one I have seen. Looks like as colorful as their bottle was the label would have been more than Gray and Black.




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RE: SunDrop Golden Girl Cola - 6/10/2009 3:47:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's a few of my SunDrop Golden Girl bottles. The jug will make a good go with. bob




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RE: SunDrop Golden Girl Cola - 6/10/2009 3:48:20 PM   
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RE: SunDrop Golden Girl Cola - 7/14/2009 5:10:44 PM   
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ORIGINAL: digger mcdirt

Here's a nice amber 1 gallon SunDrop Cola Syrup jug I got out of my truck load deal the other day . I have seen a few in clear but 1st amber one I have seen. Looks like as colorful as their bottle was the label would have been more than Gray and Black.




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RE: SunDrop Golden Girl Cola - 9/18/2009 2:43:31 AM   
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Status: offline 		I am guessing that you maybe able to help me out. I am looking for a Golden Girl Cola (Sun Drop) paper label soda bottle. Saw and missed one on e-bay a couple years back but have never seen one since. I have a pretty extensive collection of Sun Drop (Golden Girl Cola) bottles and memorabilia but not that one or one like your "sugar free" in the pic.
Thanks for your help,
Mike

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RE: SunDrop Golden Girl Cola - 9/18/2009 10:55:31 AM   
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Status: offline 		Speaking of paper label and Sun Drops, here's my very early paper label Sun Drop. 


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RE: SunDrop Golden Girl Cola - 9/18/2009 11:42:39 AM   
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Speaking of paper label and Sun Drops, here's my very early paper label Sun Drop. 




I spotted one of those about three months ago in an antique shop, I didn't think it what related to the modern Sun Drop so I didn't buy it.


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RE: SunDrop Golden Girl Cola - 9/19/2009 6:43:25 PM   
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RE: SunDrop Golden Girl Cola - 12/13/2009 12:32:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		I went back to the shop and picked up the Sun Drop paper label I mentioned. It is applied to a 1940 beer bottle with no neck label in sight.




Actually the other one of these pictured has a different font on the label. Other than that they are basically the same.


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RE: SunDrop Golden Girl Cola - 12/13/2009 12:36:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		A closer look at the label. The label reads that it was bottled by the Peru Bottling Company of Plattsburg, NY, I also picked up a 1942 Mil-kay bottle from the same bottling company in the same booth. I did a bit of searching for Sun Drop Lemonade and found that caps that note "A Mil-Kay Product", finding a Mil-kay bottle from the same company makes a lot of sense. Of course this same connection does give me the logical link I personally needed to the modern Sun Drop brand. The Mil-Kay is posted on my new to the Morbious Fod collection thread.




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RE: SunDrop Golden Girl Cola - 12/13/2009 12:47:01 PM   
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RE: SunDrop Golden Girl Cola - 12/13/2009 8:02:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		hey guys great bottles! joe i dug a hartmans  with a sundrop lable behind the school

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RE: SunDrop Golden Girl Cola - 12/13/2009 9:13:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		Somehow I'm not surprised by that. Too bad it didn't survive, otherwise I'm sure you would have posted it, a hartmans's Sun Drop paper label would indeed be a nice find.

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RE: SunDrop Golden Girl Cola - 1/10/2010 12:34:23 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hi, Im new up here but I just thought I would put a little imput in on the Sun-drop lemonade bottle that some have posted. I do know that it was not distributed by Sun-drop the Golden cola which came from St.louis, M.O. and the Bottle with the paper label was made in N.Y by Mil-Kay which was 2 seperate companies. To my knowledge Sun-drop never had a paper label until the early 90s. The earliest bottle I know from the Sun-Drop company in St.Louis was from the 40s and they came in 3 flavors, Sun-Drop Orange, Lemonade, Punch and labels were painted, Here is a pic of one I was able to get that was still full.




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RE: SunDrop Golden Girl Cola - 1/10/2010 12:37:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		Also here is a pic of 3 bottle displays that was made by the Sun-drop company




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RE: SunDrop Golden Girl Cola - 1/10/2010 2:44:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		That's a nice collection of Sun Drop bottles, but I'm afraid I have to disagree with you on the origins of the brand and it's connection to Mil-Kay. I decided to put some real research into the brand aside from that quick connection via bottle cap. I hit the usual sources, first the brand's official history taken from the official Sun Drop website, then I took it further by going to the real historical source the United States trademark registration site. Learning to use this site has helped me out considerably in my research of local bottlers, and of course has helped me again in this instance.

First the Sun Drop brand

http://www.sundrop.net/history.php

According to SunDrop’s own official history the drink has been around since 1928, at least eight years before the assumed invention of the acl process, and you would have me believe that this brand didn’t have a paper label bottle until 1990?

“In 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, Charles Lazier developed an entirely new soft drink which he named Sun-Drop. With the introduction of Sun-Drop an entirely new flavor category was born.” quote from the brand’s official history.

From the United States Patent office we find that the trademark for Sun Drop, note on the certificate that they use the Sun Drop Lemonade font from Wonkapete’s bottle and the advertising sign posted as the trademark, had been in use since August 29, 1929.

“(LAST LISTED OWNER) MIL-K-BOTL CORPORATION OF AMERICA, THE UNKNOWN ST. LOUIS, MO. REPUBLISHED BY SUN DROP SALES CORPORATION OF AMERICA,/ST. LOUIS, MO.”




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RE: SunDrop Golden Girl Cola - 1/10/2010 2:45:37 PM   
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From the United States Patent office we find that the trademark for  Mil-kay was filed on September 28, 1940.

“FIRST USE: 19400801. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19400801

(REGISTRANT) MIL-K-BOTL CORPORATION OF AMERICA, THE CORPORATION MISSOURI 3012 LOCUST STREET ST. LOUIS MISSOURI

(LAST LISTED OWNER) LAZIER INDUSTRIES, INC. CORPORATION DELAWARE 1740 CHASE DRIVE FENTON MISSOURI 63026”




The funny thing is there is never a mention of New York in the registrations of either of these trademarks, even though the one I own was bottled there. Both of these companies are owned by Charles Lazier who created both brands. They aren’t two separate companies at all.


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RE: SunDrop Golden Girl Cola - 1/10/2010 11:24:45 PM   
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RE: SunDrop Golden Girl Cola - 1/11/2010 2:08:57 AM   
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Status: offline 		morbious_fod : Thanks for the history on that, I always thought they were 2 seperate companies but after reading the patents I guess they are related, I knew that Charles Lazier invented Sun-Drop in the 20s but thought it didnt get patented till later. I have searched many times for the right information but always came up short. Glad you were able to find that. I do know that the Snapple group owns Sun-Drop now and that the Golden girl Cola debuted in 1951 http://www.drpeppersnapplegroup.com/brands/sundrop/ .

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RE: SunDrop Golden Girl Cola - 1/11/2010 2:18:34 AM   
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