PotatoHead's Journal: The Pop Shoppe

I sure do. Growing up in the small town of Molalla Oregon, I was lucky to be blessed with one of these, complete with drive thru! Being able to pick any combination of flavors you wanted was what made the Pop Shoppe special for me growing up. While chatting about local TV Station KPDX on PDXradio.com, the topic of conversation drifted toward the Pop Shoppe and commercial spots. One of the folks just happened to have one and let me post it here. You know you just wanna click it and bring back a memory or two so go for it!

The Pop Shoppe 1976 (mp3 audio)

I remember the Pop Shoppe

[Degrees]

We had one in Visalia, CA too. For one summer, every Saturday was Pop Shoppe day, as dad took us kids to swap out our empty case for a full one. There were three of us boys, so we each got to pick our own eight bottles. It was great.

I was pretty disappointed when they went out of business. Didn't really understand why that happened, either.

Was about the same for me too.

[PotatoHead]

My family used to do the same thing. I got to pick more pop because there were only two of us!

I liked the idea that the packaging was recycled long before that kind of thing became trendy.

That mp3 was from a local radio spot here in Portland Oregon. One of the older engineers wants to put up some history. When I get hold of the collection, I'm betting there are some gems in there.