RC Cola advert

[nikeajax]

Well, it's not actually vintage but it looks like the real deal, don'cha think?




I noticed on one of John's threads that he had what I thought was an old Dr.Pepper bottle, so I made a mockup of an old advert. When I showed it to him, he said he recollected it was actually an RC Cola bottle. I studied some of their old advertising art work from the 1970's and put this together. I hope y'all enjoy it...

Jaybird

[drado]

Must say Jaybird, it does look like a period piece!

[SeaRat]

Jaiybird, I'm flattered...don't know quite what to say.

John

[drado]

What's the story behind the bottle, John?

[nikeajax]

John, yes, tell us how you drank that fine beverage down there

I should note that I cleaned John's image up a lot: he had no idea I even kyped, um, borrowed it. I enlarged, then cleaned up all the noise that you always get with any sort of image-compression, then I re-added the bottle.

John, as with most of us around here, you really rate in my book: it was a pleasure! I have a 150-dpi version, adequate for printing, I could send you: gee, should I ad a page number and faux/real publication name at the bottom? Might be kind of funny as a gag-pic on your wall somewhere like the garage, "Gosh John, I had no idea you did work for RC Cola..." Yeah, anyway...

Jaybird

[SeaRat]

Okay, I went back into my files and looked up the dive. In the 1970s, after becoming a NAUI instructor, I started keeping pretty detailed dive logs. That petered out as I became more involved with job and family in the mid- to late 1980s to today, but I have pretty good records in the mid-1970 for about a decade.

This dive occurred on October 20, 1973 at Clear Lake, Oregon in the Cascade Mountains east of Eugene, Oregon (there are several Clear Lakes in Oregon). This one is the headwaters of the McKenzie River.

I had dived Clear Lake on October 6th too, with dive buddy Mike VanAtta. There were two dives that day, the first to 60 feet and the second to 50 feet. Weather was rainy, and I did take some black-and-white photos. Bottom times were 45 minutes and 60 minutes, respectively. Visibility was 150 feet plus, with a water temperature of about 37 degrees F (which is what Clear Lake is year-round). For this dive, I wrote "131. W/Mike VanAtta. Saw many large trout--to 6 lbs (25" or better), noticed the clearest water flows out inte tthe lake forming a knife edge under the cloudy water. Took color slides. Used DA regulator--almost turned my lungs inside out--last dive for it. 132. Went north from dock into clearest water. Took pictures of ourselves in springs on lava, etc. B & W. Had holes in gloves & boots. Almost froze feet off. Noticed red mites or spiders & copepods to 2mm (in clouds in the clear water). Here is one photo Mike took of me on that dive note no shadows--it's raining):




Concerning the dive in question, On October 20, 1973 Steve Evers and I went from Corvallis, Oregon to Clear Lake. It is a pretty good trip into the mountains from Oregon State University, where we both were studying. It was again raining (does that a lot in Oregon) but we had a great dive anyway. We dove to 45 feet, for sixty minutes on this dive. I must have fixed the holes in my boots and gloves (or made a new pair--I used to do that, make 3-finger mitts from sheet neoprene) because I did not not that I froze on this dive. Here is the text entry from that dive. "134. Clear Lake--Steve Evers; photos and samples taken of invert. and plant life. Dacor "Clipper" was used--somewhat hard breathing."

So what can I say about the photo. Here's the one Jaybird took:



The bottle in my right hand is one I found on the bottom. There were a lot of row boats on the lake, and fisherman. Someone had lost that bottle overboard. If you'll look at my left hand, you'll see another small plastic vial that has the sample of red copepods, some other insect life, and some of the plants (algea and moss) from the bottom. I wanted to look at them under a dissecting scope at school. Here's an example of the boats over the divers:



The bottle of RC (my memory) was probably consumed on the way back to Corvallis, as this diving was rather calorie-intensive.

John

[nikeajax]

John, as usual, thanks! I REALLY like that first small image in B/W, I won't bore you with all the details of why, but it's artistically very well put together, it has ideal eye movement...

Jaybird

[duckbill]

Ha, ha! That looks GREAT Jay! You've got talent.