Soft Drinks Tapestries
Description: Muskegon Gas & Oil Company, aka Musgo, was a Michigan-based petroleum company that started up sometime in the mid-1920s. Collectors believe they were planning on a pretty big footprint in the market given the number of NOS artifacts that still exist today, but nonetheless, Musgo was doomed and dropped off the face of the earth just a few years into their plans for world domination.
Description: Slush Puppie is a slush beverage created in 1970, and marketed both directly by the Slush Puppie division of J&J Snack Foods, and through its Slush Puppie distributors in the United States. A Slush Puppie has two major components; the base and the flavoring. The base is made from a special syrup that is mixed with water and then frozen. This creates a mixture resulting in pellets of ice in a sweet liquid. The taste is simply that of the flavored syrup. The brand's mascot is a white puppy named Chilly Dog wearing a blue shirt with the letter "S" and a knit hat.
Description: In the year 1900, a pipeline salesman named W.S. Porter convinced the five largest oil companies in California's Kern River Oil Field to enter into an agreement to turn over their interests to form a new oil company in exchange for stocks and bonds. With those five plus agreements from 34 other companies in the area, the Associated Oil Company was born on October 7, 1901 and began producing petroleum products under the Flying A brand within a few months. By the end of the decade, Flying A was refining their own crude and producing gasoline, motor oil, kerosene, and a variety of lubricants. As cars became commonplace in the '20s, so did gas stations, and Flying A branded service stations began popping up throughout California and beyond.
Description: Owner of Hatcher Grocery Store in Columbus, Georgia, Claud Hatcher, began bottling his own ginger ale and root beer in 1905. Hatcher continued to develop more sodas over the years, finding a hit with a cherry soda he called 'Chero-Cola,' subsequently dubbing his soda business The Chero-Cola Company. Hatcher created the Nehi line of fruit-flavored sodas in 1924, the name a play on the 'knee-high' tall bottles. The new sodas were instantly successful, and soon outselling Chero-Cola entirely. The following year the company's name was changed to Nehi, and the new line became the company's best sellers.
