"Pop Top"

"I came across this vintage metal sign hanging inside of a restaurant. It was fun to see something that hearkened back to my earlier days. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, my brothers and I would inevitably visit the vending machine at the side of Miller’s Supermarket after an outing on the nearby baseball field. I recall Sprite and Coca Cola among the options, but not this one. I think they stocked Royal Palm orange soda instead, which I would sometimes choose. It cost 15 cents for a 7 ounce bottle. Ultimately, there also would have been plenty of Orange Crush consumed along the path of my youth. Seeing this relic from the past brought back a flood of memories that got my paintbrushes moving, and now the past has again become present."Original oil on linen 24" x 24"