7-Up Corbin, Kentucky

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Here is the old 7-Up Bottling Company building in Corbin, KY. It is now an auto body shop.

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

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Cool photo. I wish there were more like it. But I imagine most of those old bottling plants are long gone by now, or have been changed over to something else like the one in Corbin, Kentucky. I had to look on a map to see where Corbin was. I noticed a lot of Daniel Boone related stuff in the area.

I noticed the 7up symbol on the building had seven bubbles, and thought the snippet below from a Bill Lockhart article might be of interest. I'm sure it would be easy enough to determine when the building began and ended as a 7up bottler, but the dates below may shed a little light on the logo itself.

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"During 1938, someone noticed that eight bubbles did not match well with Seven-up. As a result, the labels from 1938 on contained seven bubbles."

P.S. I wonder who that "someone" was? A 7up employee, or a soda bottle collector? Lol []

 

[morbious_fod]

No it was someone in the 7-up company who suggested changing the 8 bubbles to 7 thus the name 7-up.

This is a Cumberland Valley Beverages bottle from the Seven-Up Bottling Company of Corbin, KY.

It's always great to see these bottling company buildings still standing, and even rarer with the original painted on signs still intact.