Comments on: BIRTHDAY CAKE WITH PEPSI, PITTSBURGH, PA, 1957

By: steven franklin

steven franklin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:17:24 +0000

Charles,

The special aluminum coke bottle designs you commented on were designed exclusively for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Torch Relay. Available in Canada.

Hope this helps,

Steven

By: Craig Champagne

Craig Champagne — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:46:07 +0000

The girls look absolutely beautiful.

The colors and entire atmosphere of this slide is positively divine.

What a wonderful slide.

By: Phillip

Phillip — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:54:20 +0000

The girl in front looks like Carol Burnett.

By: jennifer s. wilkins

jennifer s. wilkins — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:41:15 +0000

That lipstick must be radio active! It stayed on through Pork ‘N’ Beans, cake and Pepsi!
I do remember using my granma’s old lipsticks back in the 80′s. It did stay on for hours. Probably had lots of red dye #2 in it!
Oh yeah, try Galco’s in Eagle Rock! They have an insane amount of candy and sodas from the past and more!

By: Jerry Foisel

Jerry Foisel — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:08:47 +0000

“THROWBACK!!!”

For “ONE MORE, LIMITED TIME PERIOD”… Real PEPSI is being released!

Made WITH REAL CANE SUGAR (“C&H. C&H. The pure cane sugar that Hawaii makes! It’s the only pure cane sugar… FROM HAWAII!” Vintage C&H advertising JINGLE).

For 7-YEARS, I was a “Certified Soda Pop Scientist” at The Arizona Canning Company”. I knew TASTE WOULD NEVER BE THE SAME after we swapped to the Demon & Dull Tasting Corn Syrup from the SPARKLING, SPRECKLES, SPARKLING, LIQUID DELICOUSNESS… R E A L SUGAR!

This is PEPSI’S second release of their “THROWBACK” formula. And, just like the FIRST (a couple months ago)… I BOUGHT & STOCKED UP ON EVERY CASE OF PEPSI (AND THEN, MOUNTAIN-DEW) I COULD GET MY HANDS ON!

Corn-syrup is sour and bland compared to REAL CANE SUGAR’S BRIGHT TASTE.

By: Aitch

Aitch — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:37:59 +0000

My parents are avid Pepsi collecters, they will love this!
Long Live Charles

By: Thom Foolery

Thom Foolery — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:23:45 +0000

You can still get glass soda bottles in most taquerias, and they get them from Mexico, where they still recycle the glass bottles. Oh yeah, and they still use sugar in the Coke, not corn syrup, and it tastes way better. ¡Viva Free Trade…!

By: B. Tighe

B. Tighe — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:03:43 +0000

Sorry Charles – That’s white frosted chocolate sheet cake!

By: ee

ee — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:28:54 +0000

Mmm. Pepsi and cake. Those glass Pepsi bottles make me weep with longing.

(The Pittsburgh in PA has an ‘h’ at the end. The one in CA does not.)

By: namowal

namowal — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:19:05 +0000

I love the traces of “things I haven’t seen in a long time” in these old photos:
*Sofas with floral patterns
*Tin(?) T.V. trays with raised, decorated outer lip.
*glass soda bottles

As always, I wonder who the people were, and what became of them.