Nehi and Gas Sold Here
by Priscilla Burgers
Title
Nehi and Gas Sold Here
Artist
Priscilla Burgers
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
This antique sign,advertising that the gas price is 31.9 cents today and Nehi is sold here, hangs outside the entrance to Classical Gas Museum in Embudo, New Mexico.
Classical Gas is a museum dedicated to the great American filling station. Museum owner and curator Johnnie Meier, a retired Los Alamos science and technology geek, is an avid collector of old and oily artifacts that might have otherwise wound up in a landfill. He sits on the editorial boards of "American Road" and "Route 66" magazines and also writes freelance pieces for several hot rod publications. Within the Classical Gas collection are colorful oil cans, vintage signs, gas pumps and crowns and globes that capped the pumps, old photos and postcards of gas stations, old license plates, ashtrays set into miniature tires, and toy cars, trucks and model gas stations. There are even some 1940s-era Firestone spark plugs in the original box stating that the electrodes contain "radioactive" polonium, the same material recently blamed for the poisoning and death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. Classical Gas is a photographer's and car lover's dream.
Nehi (pronounced "knee high") is a flavored soft drink that originated in America. Chero-Cola/Union Bottle Works added Nehi Cola to its line of sodas in 1924 in order to offer a broader variety of flavors. Nehi was instantly a success and outsold Chero-Cola entirely. The "Nehi Corporation" name was adopted in 1928 after the Nehi fruit-flavored sodas became popular. In 1955, the company changed its name to Royal Crown Company, after its RC Cola brand. It was founded by Claude Hatcher, a Georgia grocer, who began bottling ginger ale and root beer in 1905. As of the middle of April 2008, Nehi had become a brand of Dr Pepper Snapple Group.
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