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- GAY-OLA
- CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
- GAY OLA
- GAY-OLA SODA BOTTL
- . 1912 GAY-OLA COLA LADY LEG BOTTLE OPENER, MEMPHIS, TENNSEE
- VTAGE DRK GAY OLA SODA SOFT DRK LADY FIGURAL LEG BOTTLE OPENER
- RARE BOTTLE CAP GAY-OLA SODA ERROR CAP EARLY 1900S GLASGOW KY ANTIQUE COCA-COLA
- GAY-OLA
- CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
GAY-OLA
Y, you read right. This bottle is embossed Gay Ola, the improved la. * gay ola drink *
Gay-Ola.
Gay-Ola (origally Gleeola) was a bottled soft drk manufactured and sold by J. By October of s first year, the pany had spl, wh the Wells Cola Company ntug to operate Montgomery as a Pepsi-Cola bottler and the Birmgham and Memphis lotns changg their nam to "Gay-Ola", headquartered Memphis wh E.
In Febary 1911, however, the Co-Cola pany sued Gay-Ola for Tra Mark gement, allegg that the sign of their bottl, wh a script logo a diamond-shaped label, was tend to mislead nsumers.
CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
1910 Era Gay-Ola Soda Bottl are a light sha of green and a dark brown. Embossed on the ont wh Gay-Ola Bottlg , (CAP. 7 on dark brown), Memphis Tenn. and on the other si of eBay * gay ola drink *
After an ial lg agast the Atlanta-based soda giant, Co-Cola won an appeal, forcg Gay-Ola to change the sign of their logo, and later their bottl. In another lawsu, Co-Cola claimed that Gay-Ola had offered to sell Co-Cola bottlers and soda fountas their syp more cheaply un-marked ntaers, implyg that they uld substute eely wh nsumers unable to tell the difference.
A cisn hand down Memphis' Circu Court 1914 limed the Gay-Ola pany to distributg s products distctive packagg, which now promised that was "The Improved Cola".
GAY OLA
This is a vtage advertisg figural leg bottle opener. It reads: Drk Gay Ola / It's Better / The Improved Cola and the other si reads: A Champagne Delightfulns / As A Soft Drk / It * gay ola drink *
( File Photo/Lda Stelter)Gleeola and Gay-OlaGleeola was veloped 1910 by the Gleeola Co., loted on 18th Street South Birmgham, acrdg to It also had a bottlg facily Montgomery. The name was changed to Gay-Ola, wrten a script that rembled the Co-Cola logo, and the pany was sued by Coke 1911. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)Illtratn of a Gay-Ola bottle.
An entreprenr lnched a nned cktail this week lled “Gay Water” that’s aimed at LGBTQ drkers — and said he’s lookg to palize on Bud Light’s mistak.
But “Gay Water” — which adopts a moniker the gay muny has long given to the simple vodka and soda cktail — has been spired by the dtup to bee even bolr about the dience ’s targetg, founr and CEO Spencer Hodson told The Post. Gay Water — a nned cktail brand that plays on the gay muny’s lloquialism for the vodka-and-soda mixed drk — lnched on Wednday and promis to unrstand s dience better than Bud Light. The 30-year-old Hodson said he is g suggtive — albe playful — msagg and imagery Gay Water’s social media and webse, cludg a provotive nod to the 12-ounce n’s 6.
GAY-OLA SODA BOTTL
* gay ola drink *
“Our missn is to -stigmatize the word ‘gay’ and start to create reprentatn spac that tradnally don’t have queer-owned products, let alone products wh the word ‘gay’ their tle, ” Hodson told The Post. “When was the last time you saw the word gay at a rtrant, bar, liquor store, or grocery store?
. 1912 GAY-OLA COLA LADY LEG BOTTLE OPENER, MEMPHIS, TENNSEE
The word ‘gay’ origally was fed as happy, and we’re hopg to remd folks of that by beg prent, ” he add. Founr Spencer Hodson, a gay man, says the brand is about reclaimg the word “gay” as a word that “jt means happy. Gay Water’s brandg is full of playful, suggtive msagg.
“Part of the pot of lnchg outsi of Pri month is to rerce the msage that Gay Water is here to make the LGBTQ+ muny more visible 365 days a year, not jt a sgle month, ” he said.
VTAGE DRK GAY OLA SODA SOFT DRK LADY FIGURAL LEG BOTTLE OPENER
Gay Ola | Antique Bottl, Glass, Jars Onle Communy. Gay Ola.
This bottle is embossed Gay Ola, the improved la. Gay Ola was also bottled by the E.
I have a bottle of theirs, the Gay Ola embossg is different but is also embossed 'The Improved Cola'.
RARE BOTTLE CAP GAY-OLA SODA ERROR CAP EARLY 1900S GLASGOW KY ANTIQUE COCA-COLA
Bottlers up and down the east ast bottled Gay Ola.
GAY-OLA
There was also a Gay Ola bottled near me Hagerstown MD. I have found a few Gay Ola bottl. i have a rb ice pany wh gay-ola la embossed on and saw a mpbellsville ky amber gay-ola la this week the rb is amber too.
I believe i had an onia tenn gay-ola. 1910 Era Gay-Ola Soda Bottl are a light sha of green and a dark brown.
Embossed on the ont wh Gay-Ola Bottlg, (CAP. And on the other si of bottle reads GAY-OLA, REC. "Drk Gay-Ola It's Better The Improved Cola 5 cents A Champagne Delightfulns as a Soft Drk or a High Ball"A Gay-Ola bottle opener wh the same shape as this one has addnal text of "PAT'D 4.
CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
12 12"Gay-Ola was based Memphis, TNAfter ligatn wh Co-Cola over the rights to e the Co-Cola type script s logo, Gay-Ola agreed 1914 to change s script to a more pla, blocky type.