Yoo-Hoo Chocolate Flavored Beverage Bottle, 1955-1965
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Natale Olivieri added a chocolate flavored drink to the homemade fruit juices he sold at his grocery store in the mid-1920s. The New Jersey entrepreneur named the drink Yoo-hoo. Customers loved it and he bottled the beverage for wider distribution. More success followed in the 1950s, when members of the New York Yankees touted Yoo-hoo as the "The Drink of Champions."
Natale Olivieri added a chocolate flavored drink to the homemade fruit juices he sold at his grocery store in the mid-1920s. The New Jersey entrepreneur named the drink Yoo-hoo. Customers loved it and he bottled the beverage for wider distribution. More success followed in the 1950s, when members of the New York Yankees touted Yoo-hoo as the "The Drink of Champions."
Artifact
Bottle
Date Made
1955-1965
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
2008.34.2
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Glass (Material)
Technique
Molding (Forming)
Color
Colorless
Brown
Tan (Color)
Dimensions
Height: 9.5 in
Diameter: 2.25 in
Inscriptions
on front of bottle: YOO-HOO / YOO-HOO / Chocolate / FLAVORED DRINK / CONTENTS 8 FL.OZS on back of bottle: YOO-HOO / THE / DRINK / OF / CHAMPIONS / CONTENTS 8 FL OZS / BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF / YOO-HOO BEVERAGE CO. / CARLSTADT N.J. on bottom: 4628 / 68 / 15 / T
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