Product Description

Mountain Dew collectables and merchandise from 1945 - 1970. "Hillbilly Collectables" has over 600 pages of hillbilly promotional items AND the value of each item. You will get detailed information on Books & Calendars; on TV and Radio ads, on Containers & Crowns; on Point of Purchase items; on Merchandise; on old Documents and even current hillbilly items. Whether you collect Mountain Dew memorabilia or just want to know more about Mountain Dew, this book is for you. Each item has detailed pictures of all the items used to sell and promote Mountain Dew and includes lots of history behind each item. Want to know how a crown was made? Want to know how to classify the condition of an item? Want to know how an ad-mat is made? Worried about FAKE collectables - we cover all of this? Simply put - "You will not find a more comprehensive collectors book anywhere!"..

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #888695 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-08
• Released on: 2006-03-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 644 pages

Customer Reviews

Finally, a guide for Mountain Dew collectors!!!!
Finally, a guide for Mountain Dew collectors. This book is awesome !!!!

It has high quality pictures of each item along with a detail description and pricing of each one; There must be a thousand pictures and while I wish they were in color, the pictures are still very sharp with excellent details. Truly an Encyclopedia that every collector should have. It even has a brief description of how Mountain Dew was invented (I never knew that !!).

Here it what is included (600 Pages):

1) A short history of the hillbilly logo
2) The history of the soft drink itself
3) Radio Ads (37 listed)
4) TV Ads (12 listed)
5) Books & Printed Material (11 listed)
6) Drink Cartons & Crates (34 listed)
7) Cans & Bottle Crowns (23 listed)
8) Print Ads & Documents (16 listed)
9) Merchandise (31 listed)
10) Point of Purchase Items (29 listed)
11) Production Items (13 listed)
12) Signs (61 listed)
13) Wearables (27 listed)
14) Fantasy Items (66 listed)

The book also discusses fakes and reproduction along with the originals. A book like this on Mountain Dew has been long awaited and I'm glad to see it is finally here !!! I strongly recommend it to anyone that collects Mountain Dew or wants to know something about the soft drink.

Brian

Mountain Dew :Hillbilly collectables
Great info!! Very through!!! We have needed a book like this for years now!! This is awesome!! THANKS

He shut up his mug when i filled up his jug with that good ol'.........
I should state at the beginning that while I'm a collector, I'm not a collector of Mountain Dew or of any other bottled drink or its memorabilia.

My interest in D. Bridgforth's excellent book is twofold: my former addiction to another of Johnson City's early drinks created by the sage hillbillies at Tri-City Bottling Co. That drink is called Dr. Enuf and is advertised as 'the staff of life'. The truth in that claim is the fact that one bottle was never enuf.

This potion is mentioned in several publications, ie, Moon Handbooks Tennessee by Jeff Bradley; Southern Food and Cornbread Nation, two books by John Edgerton et. al.; Southern Belly by John T. Edge, et.al. and Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia by Anthony Cavender.

As evidenced by these fine regional titles, the history rich Tri-City BC and the Tennessee Bridgforths with their Mountain Dews and Dr. Enufs are just a stump-jump from stills and medicine shows and the rest of us are the better for it.

My other interest in this book was Bridgforth's treatment of a vast inventory of patented/copywrited items into a comprehensible collection; that is, his method for transforming what could have been a meaningless hoard of artifacts into a systematic ordering of the history and patronage of a uniquely American product.

An unexpected and pleasant gift of the book were the memories that I didn't know I had, that were triggered by the bottle photos, the jingles, the signs and ads. I had forgotten that Mountain Dew and I grew up together and share a history.

As a model for Collectibles books, or better yet, for museums in print, this is one of the finest I've seen. The author has managed to order his subject without making it lifeless. Not really surprising given that Bill Bridgforth gave us the drink and his son gave us this tribute to his father's creation. My thanks to both.