Over Memorial Day weekend, Jenks and I drove up to Oklahoma City for a couple days (well, like 36 hours or so) to check out the city (I had never been there). The first stop we made was just east of OKC and it's a truck stop/gas station/restaurant/tourist trap called POPS.

It's located on Route 66 in Arcadia, Oklahoma and it is famous for selling almost 500 different kinds of pop!
Here's the outside - nothing fancy......

But here's me and the ginormous pop bottle outside!

It was huge and even had a straw in it!

This is the front wall of pop bottles when you enter the place.....

This is the back wall - pop everywhere!

They had the most unique kinds, names and flavors.

Basically, you just pick up one of these 6-pack cardboard containers and then go through the coolers and pick out the bottles you want - you buy them one by one (not in cases). FUN!

AWESOME - and it's "POP", not "soda" or "Coke", people!

Look at these coolers full of pop - it was hard to pick which ones to buy!

I think this one was my favorite.....

Here's the restaurant part - a 'diner' feel.....

Here's one of our completed 6-packs. We each picked out 6 bottles, so we had 12 total.

I didn't get this one, but I thought it was hilarious! So-Duh.....get it??

OK, here are the 12:
Bubble Up (a throw back from the past), Leninade (everyone needs a Communist pop once in a while), and Frostie (it was hot, so it reminded me of cold places!).

Route 66 sodas, Dad's root beer (blast from the past), and The Pop Shoppe!

Nehi orange (I had never heard of it, but Jenks remembered it from when he was a kid), Fizzy Lizzy (it was cranberry pop with no added sugars - turned out to be NASTY), and Yacht Club grape pop (that was another of Jenks').

Dog Drool (I picked that one out - big surprise), Diet Cheerwine (I had never heard of it, but Jenks had - it was good!), and Jack Black pirate pop!

I thought this was so cute - I just had to get it, even though I really didn't know what it was going to taste like......

"Figure it out, Ye Scallywag!"

I can honestly say that I have never seen a sicle on a bottle of pop before.....but now I have!

What a fun stop along Route 66!
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