Gay Ola

[JGUIS]

Yes, you read right. This bottle is embossed Gay Ola, the improved cola.

 

[JGUIS]

This is the reverse. Hocking Valley Bottling Works Nelsonville, Oh. It's broke, but this one will have to do for now. I've seen hundreds of the HVBW bottles, but never this one. Anyone have anything on it?

 

[Sam_MaineBottles]

Gay Ola was also bottled by the E. E. Bottling Co. of Bangor Maine in the teens and 1920s. I have a bottle of theirs, the Gay Ola embossing is different but it is also embossed 'The Improved Cola'. Wonder how many other companies around the country bottled this product.

-Sam

 

[capsoda]

Bottlers up and down the east coast bottled Gay Ola. I don't think I would have drank it though.[&:]

 

[DiggerBryan]

hahaha that's great! Two words, different times. I bet if they knew what that meant these days they wouldn't have named it that!!

 

[GuntherHess]

There was also a Gay Ola bottled near me in Hagerstown MD

 

[digdug]

I have found a few Gay Ola bottles. One brown colored from Birmingham, Alabama. I've also got a clear glass from Atlanta, Georgia.

 

[cc6pack]

It was also one of the many bottlers that Coke sued for infringement rights.

 

[JGUIS]

Can you imagine being in advertising today and having that thrown on your desk? "Here ya go, sell this." It would be a legal nightmare. Anyone have a pic of theirs? Are they similar? I'm going to keep looking for a whole one, but this is the first so far in shops or the ground.

 

[grime5]

i have a corbin ice company with gay-ola cola embossed on it and saw a campbellsville ky amber gay-ola cola this week the corbin is amber too. i believe i had an onidea tenn gay-ola. i probably have a few more in the basement. later greg