Then and Now: 50 Years of Stars, Stripes, and 7UP

Dan Harris

In 1976, for America’s Bicentennial, Dan Harris of Unit 44 carefully stacked 50 commemorative 7UP cans—one for each state—into a towering Uncle Sam “I Want You” mosaic. Fifty years later, he stacks up the same cans to mark the nation’s 250th anniversary. (1976 photo taken by Peter Leabo for the Bryan-College Station (Texas) Eagle;  2026 photo taken by Jean Harris)