Pepsola acl soda bottle Sudbury Ontario

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just sharing a bottle I saw online when searching around google , never seen it before . appears to have been sold on the icollectors site earlier this fall for a small amount , think it was worth a lot more .


its from Brunet's beverages which was a bottler from Sudbury Ontario , have seen a few of there bottles before but there not common . they operated from the 1940's till 1956. have a few Sudbury bottles but yet to acquire one from brunet's .

it doesn't look much like a pepsi bottle but the name " pepsola ' and fact its for a cola drink . its clear they were trying to produce something similar to pepsi .
pepsi was being bottled in Sudbury but another bottler had the franchise according to my book .

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https://www.icollector.com/PEPSOLA-POP-BOTTLE-SUDBURY_i34417866
 

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Well that was certainly a play on Pepsi-Cola !!!... I wonder if Brunet's ever had any legal interactions because of their product name being so similar?
 

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Well that was certainly a play on Pepsi-Cola !!!... I wonder if Brunet's ever had any legal interactions because of their product name being so similar?


I don't know anything about the history of this bottler other than it was from Sudbury and when it operated , none of its bottles seem to be easy to find . I don't even seem to have pictures of them although is a couple I've seen before at the bottle show

back then there was so many smaller bottlers making there own cola drinks , it would of been impossible for coke and pepsi to go after all of them
 

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I picked a number of bottles up at an auction this summer. Around 10 for $50 if memory is correct. There were 5 or 6 Sudbury bottles, a Timmons Bottle and a couple MacDonald Beverage from North Bay.
Pepsola was one of them.
Pics are of the Pepsola and 2 of the Star Bottling bottles. I have added a pic of the bottom of the Pepsola bottle. Maybe someone can interprete the date. Not my forte!
These are the only ones I have seen other than online. (Sorry about the orientation of the pics)
Pepsola.jpgPepsola back.jpgPepsola Bottom.jpgStar y&r.jpgStar Skier.jpg
 

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How many bottlers were in Sudbury? Interesting how the "Enjoy" script off the last bottle is similar to Kist.
 

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How many bottlers were in Sudbury? Interesting how the "Enjoy" script off the last bottle is similar to Kist.
Fun fact about that bottle, the label design is a generic design used by several different unrelated bottlers. It seems that it's just a design you could order from the glassmaker. Generic bottle designs were the standard in Canada but the generic label designs are a lot less common.
 

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Yes pretty much the same script as the Kist on the "Enjoy"
And here are two others that used a similar label design, except it's snow shoes vs cross country skis. I had not seen this Star Beverages before!


 
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How many bottlers were in Sudbury? Interesting how the "Enjoy" script off the last bottle is similar to Kist.

it was somewhat of a booming mining city at the time so there was more bottlers than you'd think , kist isn't listed as being bottled there but was likely being sold there .

according to my book "star bottling works " had the pepsi and 7 up franchise , Sudbury brewing and malting co had the coca cola franchise . Canada dry was also being bottled there . and was several other smaller bottlers who operated for various periods , some short lived and others longer
 

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I picked a number of bottles up at an auction this summer. Around 10 for $50 if memory is correct. There were 5 or 6 Sudbury bottles, a Timmons Bottle and a couple MacDonald Beverage from North Bay.
Pepsola was one of them.
Pics are of the Pepsola and 2 of the Star Bottling bottles. I have added a pic of the bottom of the Pepsola bottle. Maybe someone can interprete the date. Not my forte!
These are the only ones I have seen other than online. (Sorry about the orientation of the pics)

surprised to see that anyone on the site had this bottle as I don't think its very common , but unsure how uncommon it is , I don't feel like any of Brunet's beverages bottles are easy to find as I rarely see them


have seen the yellow star beverage bottle , it seems to be the most common star bottle , never seen the 7 oz green label winter themed star bottle from sudbury , however have seen a green label star bottle before but its from Kirkland Lake and very similar , its posted below

there is also an embossed art deco style star bottle and a blue and white acl bottle , i'll post a picture of them , don't have this bottle but seen it online before

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I came across a better picture of the Star sudbury embossed bottle online , this one had been dug by a digger in Sudbury Ontario . you can see the " star " embossing and on very bottom reads " star bottling works Sudbury ont " I don't have this bottle yet but have to keep an eye out for one as its a neat one .


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