I need your help.
Since I don't know when I'll ever be able to work this into an article again, I'll add this here, hoping someone can help me find what I've been searching for over the last two decades and more.
We used to buy these two liters of orange soda at Shaw's. My Uncle Bob liked Sunkist, and I did too, but I'd always ask to buy this special one only at Shaw's. I can still picture the black label on the 2-liter bottle with a cartoon orange on it. It was something called Ollie's, or at least rhymed with Ollie's. I know this because Bob would shout OLLIE OLLIE at the top of his lungs whenever he saw the bottle. For years, it had become a running joke among my Uncle, my brother, and I.
One year, I delicately removed and saved the label for my collection. I had that label for years, but lost it sometime after I moved out of my parents' house. I've spent countless hours searching for it, in addition to my hours of online research and reviewing old photo albums, hoping it would be visible in the background of one of the photos. I cannot find this drink anywhere. Even my Uncle and brother don't remember it, despite often joking about it back then.
It's to the point that my wife believes I made the entire thing up.
Honestly, I always had an active imagination, and because I've found literally nothing about this old soda from the Shaw's in Windham, Maine, from the early to mid-90s... I'm starting to think I might have made it up, too.
I've contacted Shaws, spent hours on Google, and nothing comes close. There was a powdered sports drink named Jolly Olly from way back when, and I even got in touch with the owner of that company to ask, but they never made 2-liter bottles, and that product is more like Hi-C than soda.
If you have any information about an orange soda named Ollie or something similar, please email me at admin@yesteryearretro.com or leave a message below so I can verify that I didn't just make something up and believe it was real for 30 years.
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