{"product_id":"havana-cola-bottle-cap-orlando-fl-amazing-cap-treasures-gifts","title":"Retro Havana Cola Key Lime Cola Soda Bottle Cap 🥤 Winter Park FL, Defunct Brand","description":"\u003ch2\u003eA Bottle Cap That Sells a Website? 🥤 Retro Havana Cola Key Lime Cola Bottle Cap, Winter Park FL\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 1\/4\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width:315px;margin:0 auto 20px;\"\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:177.78%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vph9saCRv1I\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;encrypted-media;gyroscope;picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e🥤 \u003cstrong\u003eA bottle cap that tries to sell you a website.\u003c\/strong\u003e Around the top it reads \u003cstrong\u003eBUY HAVANA PRODUCTS ON LINE\u003c\/strong\u003e; around the bottom, \u003cstrong\u003eHAVANACOLA.COM\u003c\/strong\u003e. Between them, on a black disc ringed with dots and flanked by two stars, a silhouette in a snap-brim fedora and open collar — no face, just the hat. Almost nobody was printing a web address on a crown cap when this was made, and “on line” is still two words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003ch2\u003e🍋 What Havana Cola actually was\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot a corporate product. \u003cstrong\u003eHavana Cola\u003c\/strong\u003e was created by \u003cstrong\u003eAmerica Vaughan\u003c\/strong\u003e of \u003cstrong\u003eWinter Park, Florida\u003c\/strong\u003e, and has been going since \u003cstrong\u003e1993\u003c\/strong\u003e. She sold it as \u003cem\u003e“The Original Key Lime Cola”\u003c\/em\u003e: a cola made with \u003cstrong\u003epure cane sugar instead of corn syrup\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003ereal Key lime juice\u003c\/strong\u003e, bottled in \u003cstrong\u003e12-ounce flint glass\u003c\/strong\u003e with original hand-drawn labels. The line grew to include \u003cstrong\u003eDiet Havana Cola, Havana Mojito, Diet Havana Mojito\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eHavana Libre Sangria\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was sold the way a small brand has to sell: mail order, a website, a handful of local counters — a Winter Park café, a neighborhood grocery — and whatever supermarket you could talk into stocking it. The company even put its name on a NASCAR car. \u003cstrong\u003eBevNET’s brand database now lists Havana Cola as no longer on the market\u003c\/strong\u003e, though the brand’s own site and social pages have kept posting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e💻 Why the cap is the interesting part\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLook at what this crown is being asked to do. A bottle cap is the cheapest surface in the beverage business and the first thing thrown away — and a small Florida maker used all of it as an advertisement for a URL. No flavor claim, no slogan about taste, no bottler town: just a face-free logo and an instruction to go buy it on the internet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is what dates it. Cane-sugar craft sodas and tiny independents were the first to treat the web as a distribution channel rather than a brochure, because they could not get on a shelf any other way. By \u003cstrong\u003e2001\u003c\/strong\u003e the local press was telling Orlando readers that the website was where you bought this cola. A cap like this is from that stretch — the brand’s online-selling years — not from an era of Florida bottling works and painted-label bottles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e🧷 Details\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnused crown cap, printed tin-plate, plain gold liner inside — never crimped onto a bottle\u003cbr\u003e\nFace: silhouette in a fedora on a black disc, dotted inner ring, a star either side\u003cbr\u003e\nRim text: BUY HAVANA PRODUCTS ON LINE · HAVANACOLA.COM\u003cbr\u003e\nA small code, \u003cstrong\u003e18-2\u003c\/strong\u003e, is stamped on the skirt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e❓ Questions People Ask\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIs this an old Cuban cap?\u003c\/strong\u003e No. It is a Florida soda brand named Havana, made in Winter Park.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow old is it?\u003c\/strong\u003e The brand dates from 1993 and this cap advertises its web address and online ordering, so it belongs to the brand’s internet-selling years rather than to any earlier period of American bottling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDoes the 18-2 mean anything?\u003c\/strong\u003e It is a small stamped code on the skirt of the cap; nothing else on the cap dates it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIs the brand gone?\u003c\/strong\u003e BevNET lists it as off the market. The name and the website have outlasted the shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e🏡 Good for soda and crown-cap collectors, Florida and Orlando-area brand collections, craft and independent beverage history, early e-commerce and dot-com-era packaging collections, bar and shadow-box display, and resin and craft work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"relatedBlock\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🔎 More From The Vintage \u0026amp; Antique Gifts Archive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/1970s-big-b-grape-soda-bottle-cap-vintage-coca-cola-collectible-treasures\"\u003eVintage 1970s Big B Grape Soda Bottle Cap 🍇 | Coca‑Cola Bottling Thomasville NC\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-cherry-crush-cork-bottle-cap-pittsburgh-pa-1950s-treasures\"\u003eVintage 1950s Cherry Crush Bottle Cap 🍒 from Pittsburgh\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/sunkist-orange-soda-bottle-cap-beautiful-cap-treasures\"\u003eRetro NOS 2000s Sunkist Orange 🍊 Soda Bottle Cap\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44417059258600,"sku":"VAG-8186215268584","price":5.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/il_fullxfull.4799100972_rr1m.jpg?v=1785360074","url":"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/havana-cola-bottle-cap-orlando-fl-amazing-cap-treasures-gifts","provider":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}