The Long Single Pepsi ACL

[Ka0s]

This is an ACL Pepsi I had not seen and not sure if its rare or not in other parts of the country but I found it really neat and diffrent.

It's an 8 oz Double Dot red and white bottle. The front is pretty simple but with a twist. Under the bottom label it says Franchisee : Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co.. Des Moines, IA.

The back is what really stood out to me.

Reads as follows:

This is the LONG SINGLE drink size.
Pepsi Cola (in script.) 8oz
BUT - For home use - Enjoy
The BIG two drink
Economy size bottle (12 Oz.
Buy the carton or case.

I think this could of been a prototype or free serving. With the mistakes on the back (no closed parentheses) and buy instead of by. Could be common but I doubt it.

 

[splante]

hmm ..nice one Iam thinking its a transisition bottle /prototype when they played around with diffrent sayings, first time I have seen that nice find here are some of the slogans they used, (not necesserly on the bottle) but you can see they kept trying to say more for your money type of slogan.

1932:Sparkling, Delicious
1933: It’s the Best Cola Drink
1934: Double Size
1934: Refreshing and Healthful
1938: Join the Swing to Pepsi-Cola
1939 Twice as Much for a Nickel
1943: Bigger Drink, Better Taste
1947: It’s a Great American Custom
1949: Why Take Less When Pepsi’s Best

Stoddard (2011-02-28). Encyclopedia of Pepsi-Cola Collectibles (Kindle Locations 473-482). Krause Publications. Kindle Edition.

 

[jblaylock]

Awesome!!!

Wanna sell?

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[morbious_fod]

This is a variation rather than a prototype. I have two of these in my collection. It was only used on the 8oz bottles.

 

[fishnuts]

Why are we all so quick to identify previously unknown bottles as prototypes when they're nothing more than variants?
Especially when they're out of our fields of expertise.

True prototypes are quite HTF.
Test market bottles are hard, but not quite as hard...at least they were produced for a run or two.
Limited runs of bottles may be hard or easy, depending.
Short runs and runs that lead to bottler demise may also be hard, or not...depending. Example: OrchardAnd the most common regular runs often contain variants. Even though we've never seen them doesn't qualify them as a 'prototype'. Example, I now have six-variants of the 10 oz. Barq's from Dumas, AR! All were unknown to me before i found them.

Pictured: variants of the Enterprise, AL acl.

 

[jblaylock]

ORIGINAL: morbious_fod

This is a variation rather than a prototype. I have two of these in my collection. It was only used on the 8oz bottles.

What locations are these found in? I would love to have on in my collection.

 

[jblaylock]

Found one on Ebay, but it's in really rough shape.

 

[Ka0s]

I as well have an Atlanta one but the punctuation has been corrected and wording has been changed.

The Atlanta one has “this is the LONG drink sizeâ€
Also has the parentheses closed and by instead of buy.

Where the Iowa one reads as the LONG SINGLE drink. as described above

That was what stood out to me.

 

[RIBottleguy]

I dug one of those small Pepsi bottles with the same writing. Definitely a lot harder to find than the normal size, but I don't know how much they usually go for.

 

[morbious_fod]

Des Moines, la and Boise, Idaho. I also know that there is a Toledo, OH and a Norton, VA out there.