Running Collection of Mountain Dew History

[SODAPOPBOB]

Celery ... Very funny. Seriously! I think it's halarious. I suppose a person could make just about any words or names out of the bush if we tried hard enough. I will leave it up to Morb or one of the others to explain who the names "Archer" and "Minges" were. Otherwise, about the only other thing I can say about our mysterious little bush is that it disappears from the bottle label around 1968. WHY?

SPBOB

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Here's a 1965 and a 1968 bottle side-by-side. (Bush / No Bush). Plus a few other obvious changes. Including a different .... Over-under wording - Pig - Hillbilly/Revenuer running for the outhouse (Who is no longer holding the same jug in the same position).

 

[celerycola]

ORIGINAL: SODAPOPBOB

about the only other thing I can say about our mysterious little bush is that it disappears from the bottle label around 1968.  WHY?

SPBOB 

I think the pig ate it.

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Celery ~

Oink! Oink! Good answer! [sm=lol.gif]

Bob

 

[madman]

ORIGINAL: SODAPOPBOB

Question number two ... w/three parts. Re: Bottle label.

1. Is the guy running for the outhouse a neighboring hillbilly, and are they having a feud?

2. Or is he a federal revenuer running for cover?

3. That same guy (hillbilly? / revenuer?) is carring a rifle in one hand, but what is he carring in the other hand? Jug? Briefcase? ???

I'm not sure these questions have ever been fully resolved. Surely it's one way or another. But does anybody have a "for sure" answer?

Thanks,

SODA "PUZZLED" BOB

{Knoxville, Tennessee ad - 1928} {This is from another thread - not sure who posted it}

bob i posted the 1928 dew add, i found it in a news paper at the knoxville history center, this was the first mountain dew in knoxville tn. max light did indeed know the hartmans they may have got there idea from him................

 

[madman]

ORIGINAL: SODAPOPBOB

Here's a closeup of the ??? running for the outhouse. I'm not sure if it's a hillbilly or a revenuer, but if that ain't a jug he's holding, then I don't know what it is. His hat looks hillbilly-style too, and not that of a city slicker.

SPBOB

thats charlie gordon stealin the moutain dew formula from ali hartman lol

 

[morbious_fod]

ORIGINAL: SODAPOPBOB

Question number two ... w/three parts. Re: Bottle label.

1. Is the guy running for the outhouse a neighboring hillbilly, and are they having a feud?

2. Or is he a federal revenuer running for cover?

3. That same guy (hillbilly? / revenuer?) is carring a rifle in one hand, but what is he carring in the other hand? Jug? Briefcase? ???

I'm not sure these questions have ever been fully resolved. Surely it's one way or another. But does anybody have a "for sure" answer?

Thanks,

SODA "PUZZLED" BOB

Let's look at the pre-pepsi carton I own for a few answers.

Here we see the typical scene depicted on the bottles. Hillbilly pointing a rifle at a fleeing individual who is running for the nearest cover, and outhouse. There is another scene that doesn't show up on the bottles.

 

[morbious_fod]

And that is the Prequel scene. Where we see that the other, looks like a hillbilly to me, is slowly approaching the sleeping hillbilly, who appears to have passed out from his own consumption.

There is no outstanding signs that he is a revenuer, he is holding his own rifle and what is obviously a whiskey jug of his own. Not to mention he is wearing the same ragged pants as our "hero". So most likely he his a neighboring hillbilly who was trying to sneak up on the other hillbilly who stereotypically is a rival in a hillbilly feud. He pulls a Han Solo on Endor and ends up giving himself away by stepping on a twig, thus waking our "hero" who proceeds to lock 'n load and is watching his lane.

 

[Anthonicia]

ORIGINAL: SODAPOPBOB

Celery ... Very funny. Seriously! I think it's halarious. I suppose a person could make just about any words or names out of the bush if we tried hard enough. I will leave it up to Morb or one of the others to explain who the names "Archer" and "Minges" were. Otherwise, about the only other thing I can say about our mysterious little bush is that it disappears from the bottle label around 1968.  WHY?

SPBOB 

If there is a name in the bush then it likely wouldn't have been any of the Minges or Jim Archer or Charlie Gordon even. The money would be on the the artist Brichetto(sic), or the Hartman's. Th bush is the same on the early Hartman bottle as it is on the later hillbilly bottles made by everyone else. You made me look to make sure though! Funny story.