While I was a ginger ale, birch beer, cream, and root beer fan, I found grapefruit Wink to be a refreshing change of pace.

As pre-teens we also used to take Tom Collin's soda and whip up our own bubbly non-alcoholic concoctions.

Bireley's orange soda. It was non-carbonated though. Called orange tonic in these parts.

Chek cola and grape. We were poor and in Alabama.

Fort Lauderdale- as a kid I loved Tahitian Treat...….now as an adult, it is way TOO sugary for my tastes. They still sell it at a few stores but not main stream.

I grew up outside of Denver in the 70's so of course it was Orange Crush.

Barqs. And Orange Crush.

Ne Hi Grape, in the country stores,

drank lots of Shasta and some other store brand as a kid,


7up was a national brand favorite, (if lemonlime counts)


we also went to the Pop Shoppe some to get different flavors of stuff

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Originally posted by Day_late:
Green River. I remember having it at a soda fountain in Chicago after hauling newspapers to the junkyard with my grandfather.

I remember it being bottled. In fact, my brother sent me a bottle that I had on my bar for quite a few years.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
Cactus Cooler. Southern California

Yeah, Cactus Cooler and Squirt were the two that really remind me of childhood in Los Angeles. If you've never had a Cactus Cooler, it's worth a try, super sweet and the orange color can't be good for you, but damn it's good.


TS

I liked Grape & Strawberry sodas growing up in Huntsville AL. during the 50's and 60's.

Grew up ;and also currently located in Bartlesville Oklahoma, we had a local mom and pop bottler called Love that bottled all of the fruit and herbal flavored sodas. This was even in the forties and fifties. Love also bottled the Dr. Pepper and 7 up drinks. Along in the sixties and seventies, these bottlers were leaving the scene and the majority of fruit flavored sodas were products of the Coke and Pepsi line. Prior to and during WWII mom and pops were the the rule and not the exception. Every piddly little town had a coke or a Dr. Pepper bottler. They wluld typically bottle one of major brands aalong with their own assortment of fruit flavored soadas.

Nehi, Delaware Punch, Grapola, Hippo soft drinks...

Nehi and White Rock primarily. White Rock had a warehouse in the neighborhood.

Brookdale soda made in our home town. Brookdale was a section of town.
Also Hoffman soda. There was a radio commercial that went "the prettiest girl I ever saw was sipping Hoffman thru a straw".

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Originally posted by Pal:
You forgot Vernors, not fruit drink but part of every Michiganders childhood.

Jim

Yep. Bottled right in Detroit, where I grew up. I got excited in 1967 when I found a liquor store in Torrance, CA that carried it!

I think we had all the major brands in Detroit in the 1940s and 50s. I remember many of the brands so far listed.

flashguy

Faygo Red with my Koegel hot dog please.

I had no idea there were so many different brands of the fruit type soft drinks. In my hometown, Sun Drop dominated but I didn't really think it fit in here in this category.

Nehi had so many varieties I can't even remember them. I do remember NuGrape equally well for another grape flavored one

Big Orange......and a Moon Pie!!!

Faygo, vernors in Detroit.

When I was little my grandfather used to buy me bottles of Grape/Orange Crush out of the vending machine at the laundry mat he used to work at when he retired from the Carpenters Union.

As I got older I would drink a Tahitian treat fruit punch occasionally.