Vintage Cups, Glasses and Mugs

In our blogs, we’ve been featuring a different promotional or corporate restaurantware product made over the years. This is another in the group of cool retro cups, glasses or mugs from our large collection. Here we’ll be sharing what we’ve learned about it and we welcome your additional input and comments.

Tab, a product of the Coca-Cola Company was the first major brand of diet cola. It was introduced into the soft drink market in 1963 as a soft drink for consumers trying to watch their weight. Tab was very popular until Diet Coke was released in 1982. Tab is still sold today, but with limited distribution. This cup is stamped with the words “Free Sample” and probably dates to the earliest days of Tab’s history when it was first being introduced to the public.

Manufactured by:
Dixie Cup Division
American Can Co.
Easton, PA

More Old Warehouse Photos

I came across a few more pictures of our old warehouse that I hope you find interesting. There look to be about 50 Vendo 81’s and a lot of other assorted soda machines. These include Ideal sliders, Victor coolers, Vendo 39’s, Cavalier 72’s and a whole mess of other neat stuff, some of which I wish we still owned.

The Old Vintage Vending Warehouse

I found this old photo of our warehouse from about 8 years ago, while searching our server for blog ideas. To most people it might look like just a pile of junk. But if you are a soda machine or vending machine collector, you’ll appreciate the machines in this photo.

There are two Jacob’s 56 Pepsi Light-Ups, arguably the most rare Pepsi machine ever. It also shows three rare Vendo Milk Machines and the super-rare Vendo Hot Foods Machine. Tucked in between is a VMC Pepsi 27 and behind them all and a little hard to see, are a bunch of Coca-Cola Mills soda machines.

Hope you like it.