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
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!
Not a fan of soda but those colours sparkle! Fifteen hours?? Tough on the tush!
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.
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. :)
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
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
I can tell you and hubby had a fun visit. Love the large bottle. YUMMMMM
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.
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 ;-)
MY DH is from OKC, well actually Crescent so maybe on our next trip we’ll head to the soda shop!
what a colorful & fun post anna!
photos of the pops giant bottle were great!!
Oh man! That is fantastic. Princess C-W and I would travel 15 hours to visit that place.
I’ll have to keep this on our list of places to go to when we head down to Texas again.
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.
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!
I’ve been there so many times and never knew of this. I’ll have to visit some time.
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
Wow, how fun! I will keep that in mind for whenever I get down there to visit my sister!
FUN!! Orange soda is number 1 followed very closely at the 1.5 mark is Grape. LOVE them both!
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
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
I’m heading off on a long trip tomorrow to see my mum, but only 6 hours drive – no POPS on the way unfortunately
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.
I’d have trouble picking a flavour but I’d love to see the lit up bottles, they’re lots of fun.
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!!
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!
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.
No way. Nesbitt’s? I loved that as a kid. Pretty sure I’d pass on the dog barf………
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.
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!
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?
well now I want to go to on a LONG road trip… hehe
… and i missed telling you I enjoyed your post about running…
What a great store! All those lovely bottles- beautiful. It’s a bubbly rainbow of fun. :) You do find the best places to visit.
Anna –
I’m so glad you had a great time in our great Okie State!
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!
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!
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?
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.
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.
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.
what a blue and white beauty!
congrats on a great finish – I like binding too
the charm is very cute.
How fun does that look?
being from Illinois I always say “pop”
but these Yankees prefer “soda”…
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
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??