What if Poppi Existed in the 1970s?

Imagine walking down a busy high street in 1974. Between the record shops and the laundrettes, you spot something unexpected: a prebiotic soda fountain called Poppi. It shouldn't exist — not for another few decades — but here it is, fitting in perfectly among the brown brick and hand-painted signage of the era.

Pastel-coloured cans lined the shelves like candy. The soda fountain counter served fizzy prebiotic drinks in every fruit flavour imaginable. Customers perched on retro stools, sipping strawberry lemon and reading the health benefits printed on cheerful labels.

The Details That Sell the Illusion

Every Modern Retro storefront is built from the visual language of the 1970s — warm tungsten lighting, Kodachrome film tones, wood panelling, and period typography. Here's what makes the Poppi store feel authentic:

• Pastel-coloured soda cans
• Retro soda fountain counter
• Fruit flavour menu board
• Chrome swivel stools
• Cheerful health benefit labels

The Absurdity Factor

Part of the charm of Modern Retro is the contrast between what a brand does today and what it would have been in the 70s. Poppi as a prebiotic soda fountain is perfectly natural — the kind of shop you'd walk past without a second glance, never knowing that decades later it would become something entirely different.

That tension between the familiar and the impossible is what makes these images work. They're not parodies — they're love letters to an era when everything was a bit more tactile, a bit more human, and a lot more orange.