But it was almost impossible to accomplish. Often the store would not have the advertised glass of the week, and instead of Daffy Duck, you might end up disappointedly with Beaky Buzzard.
And even if you did manage to get a pretty good collection going, it was very likely that it would never survive the dishwasher.
Anyway, the Arby's ad above ran in the Journal on August 28, 1975. I wonder how many people were excited to get the Cool Cat glass?
I didn't go to Arby's to get my glasses. Hardees on Oberlin Avenue had the same glasses, so that's where I went. I even remember riding bikes there with a girl I liked so she could get the (ugh) Tweetie Pie glass, since the obnoxious canary was her favorite character.
We had several sets of glasses going in the Brady household, much to my mother's annoyance, I'm sure. They certainly cluttered up the bulging kitchen cabinets for a while, until the dishwasher started inevitably thinning the inventory. Then the rest of them that survived went off with us to college. (I have no idea whatever happened to mine.)
I always liked those original 1973 glasses, though, because they featured (for the most part) the definitive designs of the characters used on posters and in advertising in the 1940s and 50s.
Here's a complete set of the 1973 glasses (below), courtesy of Etsy.
Today, several generations of kids have grown up who never watched The Bugs Bunny Show on Saturday mornings – which is too bad. But for those of us who grew up in the 60s and 70s and enjoyed those cartoons, the Pepsi glasses were a lot of fun to collect.
I never liked Tweety either.....
ReplyDeleteI went to Arby's in Elyria to get those glasses, had about half of them. I always check them out at flea markets.
ReplyDeleteI never had any of the Arby's glasses, but in the 1960s and 70s I managed to collect a few free glasses through gas station fillups. I had several Cleveland Brown glasses, and a few glasses commemorating space missions.
ReplyDeleteIncredibly, the last one I had was one that commemorated the Apollo 12 mission "Return to the Moon", from about 1970, I had until I managed to finally break it about a year or so ago. I actually felt bad about breaking it!
We have hundreds of all kinds of cartoon glasses back to 73 we are working on getting them all logged to sell AsAP
ReplyDeleteI grew up in the 90s and I collected these with my grandfather and have every one in the set and still use them today I'm my 30s
ReplyDeleteDo you know exactly how many were actually in the Looney Tune Collector Series? I have recently contacted Pepsi and they said there were as many as 26? How many are in your set?
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Which gas station in 1973 was the first to give away the Looney Tune glasses?
ReplyDeleteI couldn't find anything online as to a gas station chain that were part of the promotion; it seemed to be a fast food thing if Pepsi was the cola being served (such as Arby's or Hardee's).
ReplyDeleteThere were 14 glasses in the 1976 set:
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There were 18 in the original 1973 set (see photo on post).
That makes a total of 32 Looney Tune glasses. I think I still have my Bugs glass from 1973. But I know I have Tom and Jerry from the 1975 Pepsi series.