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Mountain Dew's Marion years
1958
Marion, Smyth County, Virginia
Connor J Williams · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The name and the first version came out of Knoxville, but the drink America knows was reformulated at the Tip Corporation in Marion in 1958, where Bill Bridgforth built the citrus recipe that Pepsi bought outright six years later. The bottle carried a cartoon hillbilly and a joke about moonshine, which Marion has decided to find funny. A mural downtown claims the invention with more confidence than the footnotes allow.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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