Augusta, Georgia: Big Cup
The big cup entrance to a two-story brick building has gone through several name changes (Lily Tulip - Solo - Dart - blank), due to corporate mergers, but it remains a cup among giants.
- Address:
- 1550 Wrightsboro Rd., Augusta, GA
- Directions:
- Wrightsboro Rd. near 15th street.
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Unfortunately, the building is now for sale. The sign on the cup has been removed.
[Melanie Allen, 04/29/2020]The big cup is Lily Tulip; it has never been a Dixie Cup. I have worked there going on 39 years. There is a water tank in back of plant that still has Lily Tulip on the side of it.
[Thomas Usry, 03/15/2018]
The original Big Dixie Cup - later changed to the Sweetheart Cup - is now a SOLO Cup. Not sure when it was changed to SOLO.
[Hughes, M., 11/20/2008]There is also a giant paper cup on Wrightsboro Road in Augusta, GA.
[P. Hayward, 09/28/2004]
A great big Sweetheart cup (over 2 1/2 stories tall) is part of the Sweetheart Cup Company building.
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Pic taken by Ronda Wynn Jett of the Sweetheart cup. There was also a large Lily Tulip cup -- perhaps 25 feet tall -- in front of its old manufacturing operation along Hwy 35 in Holmdel, NJ until the 1970s.