VESS

'Vess Soda' is a brand of soft drink manufactured and distributed primarily in the St. Louis, Missouri, metropolitan area. The company was founded in 1916. During the height of its popularity, Vess had bottling plants in Ashville, NC; Lafayette, IN, Cincinnati, OH; and elsewhere.
Charles Leiper Grigg, a Vess Soda salesman who developed the orange Whistle flavor for Vess soda, later founded 7Up.
As of 2007 Vess soda is sold in small plastic bottles and cans, as well as 2 and 3-liter bottles. Their slogan is "The Billion Bubble Beverage".
Vess flavors include the standard cola and fruit flavors. Vess is well-known for their orange soft drink, Whistle. The cream variety is an unusual deep pink color. Vess-Up is their lemon lime soda. Vincent Vess also produces pineapple, blueberry and kiwi-strawberry flavors. There is Vess Tonic Water, Ginger ale, Club soda and Seltzer in one liter bottles.
In the 1980s, Vess soda produced a chocolate beverage almost identical to Yoo-hoo. It was discontinued in the mid 1990s.
The Vess family also maintains one of the finest private collections of Chinese ceramics, and 19th/20th Century American and European prints in the US.

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★ The Bottle District

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★ Giant replica of a family-size Vess Soda Bottle

★ Aerial view of World's Largest Vess Soda Bottle