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Pops

September 24, 2010 on 11:51 pm | In Travel | 44 Comments

TheManoftheHouse and I had a quick trip this past week to Oklahoma to visit the in-laws. It’s a long drive (about 15 hours) and we make it in one day. In July, Dawn posted about Pops Soda Ranch, a fun place to visit just northeast of Oklahoma City along Route 66, and I took note. I knew it would be the perfect reward after a long day of driving.

I love their bottle cap logo with the bubbles — too cute. Pops is a retro-looking service station with a diner and they claim to have over 500 different types of soda pop. It sure felt like more than that. Orange Soda anyone? My favorite!

Everywhere you look, there are colorful, beautiful soda pop bottles. The window display bottles are all glued to the glass shelves.

All the bottles for sale are in refrigerators and it’s really fun to look at the variety.

Pretty much any flavor you could dream up. Dog barf or dog drool anyone? Sodasgusting LOL.

We arrived just in time for dinner and as we were leaving, the sun was setting.

The big soda pop bottle wasn’t lit when we first got there, but luckily we were there long enough that they turned it on, and we were able to see all the pretty colors.

So, if you’re ever near Oklahoma City, keep Pops in mind. It’s a fun stop to stretch your legs and have a break.

I managed to get some quilting done on my wall hanging and a binding done on a UFO while we were gone, so that’s a good thing. Finally a finish, coming up in the next post.

XOXO,
Anna

44 Comments

My sis lives about 10 miles from Pops! I went there a couple of years ago. Fun place!
Love your pics of the sunset on the giant pop bottle!

Comment by Janet — September 25, 2010 #
Not a fan of soda but those colours sparkle! Fifteen hours?? Tough on the tush!

Comment by molly — September 25, 2010 #
Oh how fun! The display is beautiful, and the lit-up coke bottle? So cool! There’s no way kids let their parents drive past that without stopping :)

My favorite flavor is peach, with grape coming in a close second. I hate that gas stations don’t sell bottled sodas anymore.

Comment by Lisa — September 25, 2010 #
Looks like a fun place to visit! Great pictures capturing all the colors. And no dog drool for me, I think I would stick to the grape soda. :)

Comment by Doni — September 25, 2010 #
What a neat looking place! Sodas in glass bottles are just the best. I miss them. I’m old enough that I remember Cokes in the small bottles when they came from a Coke machine for a nickel. Ancient history. LOL

Comment by Elaine/MuddlingThrough — September 25, 2010 #
Oh my gosh, my girls would go crazy. They love soda (probably becasue they hardly get it. I am so mean ;-) I will share your post with them xoxo Clarice

Comment by clarice — September 25, 2010 #
I can tell you and hubby had a fun visit. Love the large bottle. YUMMMMM

Comment by Darlene & Thimbles — September 25, 2010 #
My favorite would be root beer with a scoop of vanilla and foam dripping down the sides of a tall, frosty glass.

S.L.U.R.P.

Comment by Marsha — September 25, 2010 #
Oh Anna, you go to some of the best places! Hubby and I would love to go to Pops…too bad we never travel through Oklahoma. Btw, your photos are sodalicious ;-)

Comment by Joni — September 25, 2010 #
MY DH is from OKC, well actually Crescent so maybe on our next trip we’ll head to the soda shop!

Comment by Mary ann — September 25, 2010 #
what a colorful & fun post anna!
photos of the pops giant bottle were great!!

Comment by linda y — September 25, 2010 #
Oh man! That is fantastic. Princess C-W and I would travel 15 hours to visit that place.

Comment by Trash — September 25, 2010 #
I’ll have to keep this on our list of places to go to when we head down to Texas again.

Comment by Judy — September 25, 2010 #
So cool. I would have loved to been there with my polaroid camera. I don’t drink soda pop, ever, but as a child I used to love the orange soda. When I lived in the Czech republic, it was the only kind of soda available.

Comment by raina — September 25, 2010 #
Wow! i was having cravings for NESBITTS STRAWBERRY SODA today, which ass far as I know, they do not make anymore… So i bought my daughter strawberry crush instead…!!! (not nearly as good.)
I think I need to make a trip to OK City just for this! eek! I have a serious sweet tooth today!

Comment by Victoria — September 25, 2010 #
I’ve been there so many times and never knew of this. I’ll have to visit some time.

Comment by sharon — September 25, 2010 #
Hi Anna,
I loved all the beautiful colors of the pop and have no idea what flavor I would have chosen from all those gorgeous looking bottles. It sounds like had a fantastic time.

I enjoyed reading about your running story too-
Hope fall is treating you well.
Warmest regards,
Anna

Comment by Quiltmom ( anna) — September 25, 2010 #
Wow, how fun! I will keep that in mind for whenever I get down there to visit my sister!

Comment by Karen — September 25, 2010 #
FUN!! Orange soda is number 1 followed very closely at the 1.5 mark is Grape. LOVE them both!

Comment by Jen — September 25, 2010 #
fifteen hours? oh my. that is WWAAYY too long to be in the car, unless, of course, you could chit chat with friends all along the way… or blast the radio to my favorite music and sing your heart out, nvm the fact that i am tone deaf and have a two note range, both of which are terribly off key…. sorry, a.d.d. sidetrackedness there…
so, having grown up in the pacific northwest, bellevue wa to be exact, we called it “pop”. then i move back to california in my 20′s, and everyone here calls it ‘soda’ so when i would ask ‘what kinds of ‘pop’ do you have?’ the server would look at me like i was crazy. i don’t drink it anymore, so it doesn’t matter so much… but i still like ‘pop’ better than ‘soda’, fwiw.
i’m leaving you now. had a fun weekend so far.
:waves madly

Comment by brigita — September 26, 2010 #
Hi Anna,
15 hrs? Wow…I’m glad your trip was safe and rewarded with this fun visit.
I really like the design of the bottle caps, too, and the variety is overwhelming…
Thanks for sharing pictures!
Hope you’ve had a great time in Oklahoma with your in laws,
Julia

Comment by Julia — September 26, 2010 #
I’m heading off on a long trip tomorrow to see my mum, but only 6 hours drive – no POPS on the way unfortunately

Comment by Annie — September 26, 2010 #
That place looks so cool. Love the big soda bottle. Eek, a 15 hour drive! That is one heck of a long day. I can’t bear road trips– four or five hours is my absolute limit.

Comment by Stacy — September 26, 2010 #
I’d have trouble picking a flavour but I’d love to see the lit up bottles, they’re lots of fun.

Comment by Janet — September 26, 2010 #
What a fantastic place – I love the lurid colours of the soda …… although I think it would probably make children hyperactive!!! If we drove for fifteen hours, we would be in the sea …. unless we went through the Channel Tunnel to France!!

Comment by frayedattheedge — September 26, 2010 #
My son would think that he had died and gone to heaven. As much as I tried to encourage healthy eating habit while my kids were growing up, I’m batting 500. Paige is a vegan (which is a little too extreme for me) and Kai is a carnivorous, Taco Bell-eating, soda-pop lover!

Good luck with running. I’ve been running for over fifteen years. During my thirties, I could eat anything as long as I ran almost everyday. I was exhausted during my early forties and decided it was because of running. Now I run three miles three times a week. It’s not much, but I enjoy it more…don’t ask me whether it helps with my weight though…sigh!

Comment by Caroline — September 26, 2010 #
Wow! What else can you say, but Wow! That made me really want a coke! I’ve been coke, soda, carbonated beverage, whatever free since February 18th – but who’s counting???? That looks like a really cool place.

Comment by Kristy — September 26, 2010 #
No way. Nesbitt’s? I loved that as a kid. Pretty sure I’d pass on the dog barf………

Comment by Faye — September 26, 2010 #
I have never heard of Pops – but sure looks like fun.

I am so impressed with your determination to run – keep it up! I have that couch to 5k program on my ipod too, but havent worked on it in quite awhiel.

Comment by Teresa — September 26, 2010 #
Wow 15 hours, that would be like us driving across 2 states I think, well the small ones anyway. The soda pop shop looks and sounds very cool, so many funny flavours too. I am sure my son would love that store!

Comment by sue — September 26, 2010 #
What a fun place. Good on you for trying to run. Every little helps. I love running but it makes me so hungry that I become like a wild thing near food. Safer for all concerned if I sit and knit. After all if I do it fast enough surely it counts as exercise?

Comment by alison — September 26, 2010 #
well now I want to go to on a LONG road trip… hehe

… and i missed telling you I enjoyed your post about running…

Comment by pat sloan — September 26, 2010 #
What a great store! All those lovely bottles- beautiful. It’s a bubbly rainbow of fun. :) You do find the best places to visit.

Comment by Karin — September 27, 2010 #
Anna -

I’m so glad you had a great time in our great Okie State!

Comment by Amy — September 27, 2010 #
When we had my oldest daughter’s cowboy wedding we had tons of odd bottled soda at our “soda bar”. It was fun. People still ask me about where we got them. Of course we didn’t have a store like this handy!

Comment by nanette — September 27, 2010 #
That’s a long drive! A fun place to visit at the end of it though, I’d be pushed thinking of 50 differnet kinds of soda let alone 500!

Comment by Rowan — September 27, 2010 #
Those bottles all look stunning on those glass shelves – like a quirky sculpture. This looks like such a fun place to visit1 Was the grub good?

Comment by Emma — September 27, 2010 #
Ok, that is too cool. Not just the retro, or even the scary amount of soda (and colours)they have, but that illuminated bottle is amazing.

Comment by nicole — September 27, 2010 #
Cool place. Looks like you had a great time. I long for a road trip. Although, it’s not as relaxing and quiet with the 4 girls as it was when hubby and I were on our own.

Comment by Cindy — September 27, 2010 #
Great photo’s, love the sunset and those illuminated bottles are so cool. Looks like a great place to go for an old fashioned soda. I hope you had a nice visit with the inlaws.

Comment by Kim D. — September 28, 2010 #
what a blue and white beauty!
congrats on a great finish – I like binding too
the charm is very cute.

Comment by barb — September 29, 2010 #
How fun does that look?
being from Illinois I always say “pop”
but these Yankees prefer “soda”…

Comment by barb — September 29, 2010 #
COOL!
I remember stopping at the gas station on the way to Grandma & Grandpa’s house, and we kids always got our choice of soda pop (in bottles) and a snack.

Jody

Comment by Jody — October 1, 2010 #
OH.MY.GOSH Anna! As soon as I saw the first photo with the pops bottlecap, I knew I had to make that into quilt!! Wow!! I love it! Would you be willing to pass along that jpeg to me? I’d love to upload it into my flickr and eventually make a quilt out of that photo. I’d of course give you all the photo credits. Pretty please??

Comment by Penny — October 3, 2010 #