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Big House

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Origin. Tennessee bottlers Barney and Ally Hartman developed Mountain Dew as a mixer in the 1940s. Soft drinks were sold regionally in the 1930s, and the Hartmans had difficulty in Knoxville obtaining their preferred soda to mix with liquor, preferably whiskey, so the two developed their own.
 

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Mountain Dew was first called White Lightning. I drank a lot of it when I was in middle school in the sixties. It later changed its name to Mountain Dew because the name drew a lot of criticism because people associated the name with moonshine.
 

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