Pepsi-cola / deco / basket-weave / soda bottle design pattern

[SODAPOPBOB]

Speaking of picnic baskets, perhaps the basket weave pattern on the 1940 Pepsi Cola bottle was the company's way of suggesting ...

"Have a picnic with an ice cold bottle of Pepsi Cola"

Or ...

"Take Pepsi Cola along on your next picnic"

Or ...

"Pepsi Cola is like a picnic in a bottle"

I think you get the general idea. But whether this is bunk or not, I can't really say at the moment and need to dig a little deeper into that picnic basket and see what other goodies it might contain.

Bob

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Back to the bag for a moment ...

I currently have little doubt that the 1940s Pepsi Cola paper bottle carrier was intended to represent a picnic basket - but whether or not the same thing applies to the bottle I can't honestly say at the moment.

Bob

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

I have been looking around for a color picture of the 1940s Pepsi Cola basket bag and this is the only one I have been able to find so far. Unfortunately I was unable to enlarge it ...

 

[RCO]

I have a pepsi cola paper label bottle , I got it at a yard sale earlier this year . posted it before but didn't get any replies . it has an RD date of 1941 on bottom . for pepsi cola company of Canada and from a local bottler in Orillia Ontario but only top label remains . don't really know much more about the bottle or how rare or common it might be . i'm sure paper label is rare as its from a small town but not sure about bottle itself .

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

RCO ~

Thanks for sharing your bottle. I'm not sure if the so called "wave" bottle was used prior to the 1940 patent, (some bottle designs were produced before they were patented) but your 1941 is likely one of the earliest. Would you believe I'm actually cropping close up images and comparing the weave patterns to see if they vary or are identical? It's quite a time consuming task and I will post my findings at a later date. Another thing that came to mind is the term "Wave" design. I'm not sure by who or when the term was first introduced but it appears to be a fairly common term these days and used by various collectors as well as in books, etc. Have you ever noticed that if you add an 'e' to wave it becomes ...

Weave

Crazy stuff!

I'll be back

Bob

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

P.S. ~

Based on what I have been able to find out, the term "wave bottle" (for the 1940 thru 1958 Pepsi bottles) refers to the repeating curvature design around the bottle that apparently looked like rolling waves to someone. By the way, the so called "swirl" Pepsi bottles were first introduced around 1958.

Who knows, maybe the guy who first used the term "wave" actually meant "weave" but it was a typo of some kind and he either misspelled it or accidently forgot to include the 'e'

So with this said, I've decided to rewrite history and am now officially calling it ...

The Pepsi-Cola Weave Bottle [sm=thumbup.gif]

Bob

 

[OsiaBoyce]

ORIGINAL: SODAPOPBOB
So with this said, I've decided to rewrite history

Nothing new about that Bob.

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

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[SODAPOPBOB]

Coincidence or Connection?

When I initially started my search for various basket-weaves that might best match those embossed on the 1940 thru 1958 Pepsi-Cola bottles, I had no particular pattern in mind and just began searching at random. I especially did not have any particular Native American pattern in mind. In fact, Native American patterns were the farthest thing from my mind at the time. It was only because of a time consuming process of elimination that the Cherokee pattern kept popping up as a possible candidate for the source of the pattern. And now, after doing some additional research, I discovered the following ...

(As you will see, North Carolina is a common denominator).

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Pepsi Cola ~ A Brief History

http://www.sirpepsi.com/pepsi11.htm

"Born in the Carolinas in 1898, Pepsi-Cola has a long and rich history. The drink is the invention of Caleb Bradham, a pharmacist and drugstore owner in New Bern, North Carolina."

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Cherokee:

http://www.nps.gov/trte/historyculture/north-carolina.htm

"In late May 1838, members of the U.S. Army entered the Cherokee homelands in western North Carolina, physically removed thousands of Cherokee residents from their homes and marched them to a series of six nearby, impromptu forts or camps."

http://nc-cherokee.com/

"The Eastern Band of Cherokee, which is the only tribe in North Carolina that is recognized by the federal government, is located in western North Carolina in our traditional homelands."

 

[morbious_fod]

ORIGINAL: SODAPOPBOB

George N. Mas 1928 patent with almost identical basket-weave pattern ... Plus so called "Chevrolet" symbol

There is only one problem with Mas being the originator of that symbol, and that is that the symbol is from the teens not 1928. Mas was just ripping off Chevrolet for a bottle design. Below is an interesting examination of the origin for the Chevrolet bowtie.

http://home.earthlink.net/~scrippsbooth/chevbowtiehistory.html