Vintage 1970s Sun Crest Orange Soda Bottle Cap 🍊 Atlanta, Georgia

Remember Sun Crest Orange? 🍊 Vintage 1970s Bottle Cap, Atlanta, Georgia

Size: 1 1/4"

🆕 New Old Stock — unused and uncrimped.

🍊 Vintage 1970s Sun Crest Orange Soda bottle cap from the Atlanta orange soda that shared a family with NuGrape and Kickapoo Joy Juice. Bold SunCrest® in silver on burnt orange over a silver band reading ORANGE SODA, with the full ingredient list printed right on the face of the cap. Like every uncrimped crown, it measures 1 1/4 inches across.

Like everything I keep, these live in the dark at under 40% relative humidity and a steady 72°F, climate controlled, so any age they show, they had before they came to me.

🔍 What it says

"Carbonated water, sugar, citric acid, artificial color, food starch, natural flavor, glycerol ester of wood rosin, brominated vegetable oil, preserved with less than 1/10 of 1% sodium benzoate." Those last oils are what kept the orange flavor evenly mixed instead of floating to the top, and brominated vegetable oil is one you won't find in an American soda anymore: the FDA banned it in 2024. The plain "sugar," with no corn sweetener, and the plastic liner fit the 1970s.

📜 Sun Crest and the NuGrape family

Sun Crest was introduced in 1938 by the National NuGrape Company of Atlanta, as a flavor line and sister brand to NuGrape, 2-Way lemon-lime and Kickapoo Joy Juice. NuGrape itself goes back to 1906, was first bottled in 1921, and was licensed to the Olla Bottling Works in Olla, Louisiana in 1922 before the National NuGrape Company was organized in Atlanta by 1933. Sun Crest came in orange, strawberry, grape, pineapple, peach, cherry and grapefruit.

The company's headquarters, built in 1937, still stands in Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward on Ralph McGill Boulevard: a three-story brick building NuGrape used until 1971. It's on the National Register of Historic Places and has been loft apartments since the 1990s. In 1968 the whole family of brands went to The Moxie Company, which became Moxie-Monarch-NuGrape and later Monarch Beverage. Sun Crest is still around; these days it's made by the Dad's Root Beer Company of Jasper, Indiana.

⭐ A clean example for collectors of vintage soda memorabilia or NuGrape‑related brands. Nobody's crowning a bottle of Sun Crest with brominated vegetable oil in it again, and once these last unused caps are gone, they'll be very difficult to acquire.

Condition
🆕 New Old Stock
🔧 Unused and uncrimped