With Halloween quickly approaching, you’ve probably started your search for something spooky. For paranormal investigator Cindy Little, this search never stops. I had the opportunity to chat with Cindy about her journey to the world [...]
Have you noticed that sometimes in the rush of the holiday madness, the real reason for Thanksgiving is lost, or at least pushed to the background? With the commercial push for Black Friday, Small Business [...]
Some of you may be aware that we have a variety of spaces that are available for renting here at the Museum. Over the years, we have hosted a variety of Christmas parties for local [...]
We have a few objects in the museum that have been raising a lot of questions lately. All of these objects revolve around one idea – HOT Dr Pepper. That’s right, Dr Pepper that is [...]
The last group to share about their spokesperson from The Faces of Dr Pepper exhibit are Jennifer and Stephanie. They developed their portion of the exhibit on David Naughton, the Pied Pepper. Here is what [...]
The next group that worked on The Faces of Dr Pepper explored Donna Loren's work for Dr Pepper in the 1960s. Erin, Laura, and Megan have this bit of information about Donna to share with [...]
For The Faces of Dr Pepper exhibit, Margaret, Jordan, and Grace from the Exhibit Design class worked on Harmon the Caveman. These cartoon advertisements for Dr Pepper were drawn by Johnny Hart, the creator of [...]
Have you ever watched a movie and noticed a movie character drinking your favorite soda pop or wearing your favorite clothing brand? Marketers for brand name products and services are intentionally doing this to get [...]
As some of you know already, we partner with the Exhibit Design class in the Department of Museum Studies at Baylor University every year, so the students get a hands-on learning opportunity in exhibit design [...]
As I mentioned before, we are going to be posting a few tidbits of fun information that we discovered while doing research for our most recent exhibit - Homes of Dr Pepper. The following quotes [...]
Last week at the museum, we opened a new exhibit, The Homes of Dr Pepper. This exhibition takes you on a historic journey to each one of these Homes of Dr Pepper. During its history, [...]
So we have decided to try something new around here this year. Because we are all about soft drinks here at the Dr Pepper Museum (Check out our mission statement.), we have decided to spend [...]
Back in May the Museum got a new employee - Bill Flynt. He's heading up the W. W. "Foots" Clements Free Enterprise Institute here at the Museum. In this blog post, he will update you [...]
As we move into our final weeks of StomWatch 2013, we'd like to share another story of that day. During the exhibit's opening weeks, Bill Little happened to be in a tour group coming through [...]
Each summer the Museum hires interns that are interested in pursuing a career in the museum field to work in a variety of different areas. In this blog you will hear from Rachael who is [...]
Nearly 60 years ago our fine museum building had a rather unexpected remodeling occur while the building was still being used to bottle Dr Pepper. Now normally when fixing up a building, it is a [...]
Up on the twelfth floor of the Amicable Building, Dad must have seen, heard, and felt the tornado as it slammed into downtown. I don’t know if he left early or waited until five o’clock. [...]
On May 11, 1953, I went to school as usual, and Chip stayed at home with our housekeeper. (I’m sorry I can’t recall the lady’s name.) Dad was an inside salesman for Universal Atlas Cement [...]
Over the next weeks, we will be featuring different aspects of the 1953 Waco Tornado on our blog as part of StormWatch 2013, our commemoration of the 60th anniversary of that devestating event. We will [...]
