Appalachia’s Storyteller: The True Story of Oliver Springs Bottling Works

[@aprilmcpherson-vanraalte5590]

❤ my Gran taught us young un's how to make sassafras soda pop❤ lord I miss that good lady❤

[@debbiefrye7187]

I love your story's. Thank you so much for sharing them

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

Thank you Debbie ❤️

[@larrybailey1896]

Loved it.

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

Thank you Sir

[@KathysTube]

And now I know something I didn't know😁 Thanks 👍👍

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

Thats my goal of each video to entertain while secretly teaching :)

[@KathysTube]

@@TheAppalachianStoryteller You succeeded 👍👍

[@jimphelps5163]

Excellent

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

Thank you Jim, I appreciate that

[@stacyc6573]

My hometown ❤ Thank you for the video

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

Yes ma’am, thanks for watching

[@phyllisbakercoffman8988]

Hey, JD👏👏👏. I had no idea. Very interesting! Thank you so much!!!

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

Thank you Mrs. Phyllis for all your support. Means a lot to me :)

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[@AdonaiForMe]

I love history, especially the Appalachian variety. Your storytelling skills are great! You gained a new subscriber 😊

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

Thank you ma’am, and welcome to the channel

[@AmericanGal_69]

I just subscribed few days ago. Im addicted to history but Appalachian history is what im trying to lean, as my grandbabies will be raised here. I want to be able to tell and show them all about it.

[@alangray9117]

​@@AmericanGal_69history is so important. It's a legacy. To know where you're going, you have to know where you've been. It's why I loved hearing grandma's stories about her life. She was alive 1899-1984. Most of it poor and rural. Her stories were of struggle raising 8 kids after my grandfather becoming ill with heart disease but also liberation from sharecropping. Family was essential. My uncles worked CCC camps to send her $25 a month until they all moved north to Memphis and then Kansas City Kansas.

[@ChristyDPrice]

At 3:45, the sign advertising SunDrop.. that is still made, and doing very well, in North Carolina. Also a delicious little gem called Cheerwine.

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

I love cheerwine as a kid

[@MichaelGloth-f7j]

Interesting

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

Thank you 8

[@hinspect]

I used to be manager of the Direct Oil gas station in Oliver Springs

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

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[@Mudcon]

Great Video

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

Thanks so much, I appreciate your support

[@tennesseebottlecollector4638]

Great video!!! Great story!!

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

Thanks for your help in the production !

[@ljrow49]

Always enjoy your content/work!

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

Thanks so much, appreciate your support!

[@thomaswaddell9012]

Really interesting video. As soon as you said Strawberry Pop near the end, I doubted you were from the south.

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

Well- never lived north of Tn my friend

[@Mkiepert]

So enjoy your videos and the history behind them.

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

Thank you Sir, I appreciate your support

[@philroy3037]

There were several in Oneida Tn. in this time frame, the Coke take over must have happen there too, the last one became a Coke bottling plant and I believe the building still stands...

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

Thanks for sharing

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Just discovered your channel from a Friday's Forever FB post ..and subscribed , I love appalachian history, can't wait to start watching all your vlogs ..

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

Thank you and welcome!

[@richardliles4415]

That was a wonderful video. Thank you.

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

Thank you Richard, I appreciate your support!

[@WhispersFromTheDark]

That was really interesting. I had not heard of most of those 'soft drink' companies until I saw your video. Thanks for the entertainment and education.

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

Loved researching this video and all the things I learned from bottle collectors in East TN

[@anthonystrunk5360]

Awesome video man!

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

Thank you Sir, I appreciate that!

[@tennesse_courier]

What a fascinating history lesson I had no idea about. So is the Historical Oliver Springs Museum opened to the public ? I would love to see that bottle collection.

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

They opened it up for me, I made an appointment. Im not sure of their hours, but shoot em an email and im sure they would be happy to meet with ya. Appreciate all your support Jim

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

I contacted the historical society. they are open 10-2 on Tuesdays and Fridays

[@VideoOddness]

I used to drive through Oliver Springs every day. With the advent of the interstate and then state route 62 bypass it is now an eddy (and a speed trap - ask me how I know). But still has some very interesting architecture.

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

definitely, a speed trap

[@shadowears]

Mountain Dew was first bottled in Johnson City, Tn.

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

👍🏼

[@cissonc]

I wish you would do a video of the History of Rockwood Tennessee and the Coca Cola bottling that was on Kingston Avenue.

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

Here’s a video I did on rockwood kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKqofZKGnptoe68

[@cissonc]

Before Rockwood it was the Village of Indian Chief Tulentuskee. There is a state marker on Kingston Avenue where he held a toll road to pass at the big Oak Tree. At the time that was the main road from Knoxville to Nashville. He later moved to Oklahoma where he later died but there is information about him there also. Would be a great video just about him and the Indians that lived there.

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

@@cissonc I believe he held "a toll booth" there to allow whites to pass by taking some of their possessions

[@cissonc]

@@TheAppalachianStoryteller sounds about right

[@bigiron8831]

I wonder if you can still get the peach soda i used to drink as a kid.🤔

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

Great flavor

[@charlenemock333]

I'll be 54 this year. I remember my mama and grandmama telling us that Coca-Cola became so popular because they had actual cocaine in the Coca-Cola. It helped them work during their hard Labor of work everyday. But then the government found out that cocaine was addictive and that's why people were actually physically addicted to Coca-Cola. They would literally go through withdrawals. I researched it and found out it was all true! I thought they was just pulling my leg! Lol. So I'd say "yep and a bullfrog don't fart at night either"! Come to find out they was telling me the truth! Lol. Knowing that wild fact is what made me become such a history freak because that's when I found out just how Wild true history is! It is true that non-fiction is stranger than fiction!!! ✌🏻❤️🇺🇸

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

Thanks for sharing that Charlene!

[@budward3107]

Another great video! Thank you.

[@TheAppalachianStoryteller]

Thank you my friend