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7Up UnCola Virtual Billboard Museum - 5,670 s.f. #7Upvintage
- - - Please note that ALL of my images are "All Rights Reserved" and are posted for educational purposes only. Please do the right thing and contact me in advance if you wish to discuss the use or reuse of my images and provide a link to my originals. I would also ask that I be given a "first look" at any 7Up UnCola billboards or posters before you market them to the general public in return for my extensive investment in time, money and research, including interviewing some of the surviving artists. Thanks, and enjoy. - - -
Search "7Up UnCola Billboards" on eBay or Flickr.com if you'd like to learn more about this stunning body of work or acquire originals that might be duplicates to me. I keep the best and sell the rest.
This represents 27 of the restored billboards in my collection to date. Still remaining to be restored is "The Youth Fare" (bi-plane) by Bob Taylor from about 1969.
Explore my "Virtual Museum" and various other "Albums" on Flickr.com to see sub-groups in my 7Up UnCola collection:
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/albums/72157657430138044
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/albums
They're arranged in more or less chronological order with the oldest (1969) at the beginning through the mid-1970's at the end. I know of a few that will shift places after I reconfirm the numbered "rainlap diagram" codes on the back.
At 21'x10' each (210 square feet), this sheet represents 5,670 s.f. (63'x90') of offset lithographic paper treasure, enough to overwhelm even the largest museum exhibit halls.
If these were all laid out flat on a standard 60' wide parking lot, they would cover 10 parking spaces on each side of the drive and still hang 3' over the side curbs.
Most are in unused, mint condition having never been displayed. They're simply too big for most homes. Over half are literally ONE-OF-A-KIND. If duplicates are known to exist, they usually number from 2 to 6 as of today. Contact me if you have a serious interest in acquiring one of my dozen or so giant duplicates, smaller posters or 9 1/4" tall mini-billboard models. There will be a comma in the price. www.ebay.com/usr/finishstrong312
Please visit any of my Albums on Flickr to see and learn more about each of these giant colorful posters saved from the trash heaps, typically one at a time:
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/albums
Museum Directors: Contact me to be the first to curate and display these in advance of the hype that will undoubtedly surround the joint 50th anniversary of both Woodstock and "The UnCola" - 1969 - 2019. That's only about 2 1/2 years away and there's a great story to be told about the interplay between youth oriented advertising and the counter-culture movement of the late 60's. I've documented at least 53 UnCola billboards orchestrated by the J. Walter Thompson [advertising] Co. in Chicago during that period and I know where some of the remaining examples are located.
Artists involved in the collective body of work included such notables as: Milton Glaser, Seymour Chwast (w/ fellow Push Pin Studios artist Isador Seltzer), Robert Abel, Pat Dypold, Bob Taylor, Kim Whitesides, John Alcorn, Charlie White III, Jacqui Morgan, Heather Cooper, Bill Bosworth (w/ Tom Kamifuji), Ed George, Nancy Martell, Barry Zaid, Ray Lyle, Skip Williamson, Simms Taback, Roger Chouinard, Joanne _ and probably a few more on the unsigned originals.
If anyone has any UnCola posters or billboards, please extend me the courtesy of providing me with a "first look" before you use my research to market them so that I can fill in the missing pieces.
If you blog, reblog or otherwise use my images in any way, please link back to the original(s) and provide me credit in return for my substantial monetary investment, time and research to share & post these on-line. All of my photographs are "ALL RIGHTS RESERVED" and I will defend them vigorously. Thanks, and enjoy!
#38 & #37:
forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/2010/01/jingles-all-way.htm...
isamunangpatalastas.blogspot.com/2016/09/76the-7-up-uncol...
8/15/17: image has been replaced with an updated inventory. "Hang Un" and "Buy A Merry Can" have just been added. "The Youth Fare" is still awaiting restoration and final photography - a 60" x 36" poster is serving as a placeholder for now.
11/29/16: image has been replaced with an updated inventory. "The Youth Fare" and "Hang Un" are still awaiting restoration and final photography.
7Up UnCola Virtual Billboard Museum - 5,670 s.f. #7Upvintage
- - - Please note that ALL of my images are "All Rights Reserved" and are posted for educational purposes only. Please do the right thing and contact me in advance if you wish to discuss the use or reuse of my images and provide a link to my originals. I would also ask that I be given a "first look" at any 7Up UnCola billboards or posters before you market them to the general public in return for my extensive investment in time, money and research, including interviewing some of the surviving artists. Thanks, and enjoy. - - -
Search "7Up UnCola Billboards" on eBay or Flickr.com if you'd like to learn more about this stunning body of work or acquire originals that might be duplicates to me. I keep the best and sell the rest.
This represents 27 of the restored billboards in my collection to date. Still remaining to be restored is "The Youth Fare" (bi-plane) by Bob Taylor from about 1969.
Explore my "Virtual Museum" and various other "Albums" on Flickr.com to see sub-groups in my 7Up UnCola collection:
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/albums/72157657430138044
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/albums
They're arranged in more or less chronological order with the oldest (1969) at the beginning through the mid-1970's at the end. I know of a few that will shift places after I reconfirm the numbered "rainlap diagram" codes on the back.
At 21'x10' each (210 square feet), this sheet represents 5,670 s.f. (63'x90') of offset lithographic paper treasure, enough to overwhelm even the largest museum exhibit halls.
If these were all laid out flat on a standard 60' wide parking lot, they would cover 10 parking spaces on each side of the drive and still hang 3' over the side curbs.
Most are in unused, mint condition having never been displayed. They're simply too big for most homes. Over half are literally ONE-OF-A-KIND. If duplicates are known to exist, they usually number from 2 to 6 as of today. Contact me if you have a serious interest in acquiring one of my dozen or so giant duplicates, smaller posters or 9 1/4" tall mini-billboard models. There will be a comma in the price. www.ebay.com/usr/finishstrong312
Please visit any of my Albums on Flickr to see and learn more about each of these giant colorful posters saved from the trash heaps, typically one at a time:
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/albums
Museum Directors: Contact me to be the first to curate and display these in advance of the hype that will undoubtedly surround the joint 50th anniversary of both Woodstock and "The UnCola" - 1969 - 2019. That's only about 2 1/2 years away and there's a great story to be told about the interplay between youth oriented advertising and the counter-culture movement of the late 60's. I've documented at least 53 UnCola billboards orchestrated by the J. Walter Thompson [advertising] Co. in Chicago during that period and I know where some of the remaining examples are located.
Artists involved in the collective body of work included such notables as: Milton Glaser, Seymour Chwast (w/ fellow Push Pin Studios artist Isador Seltzer), Robert Abel, Pat Dypold, Bob Taylor, Kim Whitesides, John Alcorn, Charlie White III, Jacqui Morgan, Heather Cooper, Bill Bosworth (w/ Tom Kamifuji), Ed George, Nancy Martell, Barry Zaid, Ray Lyle, Skip Williamson, Simms Taback, Roger Chouinard, Joanne _ and probably a few more on the unsigned originals.
If anyone has any UnCola posters or billboards, please extend me the courtesy of providing me with a "first look" before you use my research to market them so that I can fill in the missing pieces.
If you blog, reblog or otherwise use my images in any way, please link back to the original(s) and provide me credit in return for my substantial monetary investment, time and research to share & post these on-line. All of my photographs are "ALL RIGHTS RESERVED" and I will defend them vigorously. Thanks, and enjoy!
#38 & #37:
forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/2010/01/jingles-all-way.htm...
isamunangpatalastas.blogspot.com/2016/09/76the-7-up-uncol...
8/15/17: image has been replaced with an updated inventory. "Hang Un" and "Buy A Merry Can" have just been added. "The Youth Fare" is still awaiting restoration and final photography - a 60" x 36" poster is serving as a placeholder for now.
11/29/16: image has been replaced with an updated inventory. "The Youth Fare" and "Hang Un" are still awaiting restoration and final photography.