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SODAPOPBOB

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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 [:D]

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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.


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As far as Popeye branded sweets, check these out. Popeye candy cigarettes.

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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.

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SODA "I YAM WHAT I YAM" BOB [:-]
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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
 

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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?
 

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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!"

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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. ???

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SPBOB
 

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