In 1983, my family visited India. While in Calcutta, we stayed with my fathers’ side of the family.
During that summer, there was a very popular promotion running by drink manufacturer Gold Spot (an orange drink, similar to Orange Crush, here in the states). Underneath every Gold Spot bottle cap was an image from the Jungle Book. The goal was to collect all the special caps and stick them on a sheet.
The reward, a special-sized Jungle Book comic. Getting all the bottle caps meant that my cousins and I would drink Gold Spot at every opportunity, or convince family and friends to do so. Our goal, of course, was to collect as many caps as we could.
Over the course of a month, we resourcefully amassed over 3 sheets worth of caps, for three complete copies of the Jungle Book comic. I still have mine, shown below:
This book was a nice trip down memory lane. Maybe other folks from India remember this promotion too?
Krishna
Man.. you sent me way back. Kids would fight with each other for goldspt crowns that were left on the ground. I remember going to a cousin’s party, and my Chachi got goldspot for everyone. She instructed the girl to save the crowns. SAnother auntie realised there was a gold mine of goldspot crowns with the girl, so she was trying to bribe the girl into giving her a few… good times
Oh man! this takes me back … way back in time! Thank you for this post!
wow. i have mine too. but unfortunately not in such a great shape.
keep it up.