Dixie cups were like the Zoom of the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, which helped the product become a household name. In 1907, Boston attorney Lawrence Luellen created a cup. It wasn’t made of glass or ...

Rosa Lee Hawkins of the Dixie Cups has died of complications from surgery less than a year after sharing her story in "Chapel of Love," a memoir named in honor of the New Orleans vocal group's ...

The Dixie Cup manufacturing plant in Wilson was in use from 1921 until the 1980s. It is now the focus of redevlopment by Joseph Reibman. Here are five things you might not know about the former ...

The person behind the agreement of sale for the century-old Dixie Cup factory with its landmark, giant cup that sits atop the former plant, wants to see the site become a neighborhood asset. “We are ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Rosa Lee Hawkins, an original member of the rhythm and blues trio the Dixie Cups who shot to No. 1 with “Chapel of Love” in 1964, died Tuesday in a Florida hospital. She was 76. Her ...

Rosa Hawkins, one of the trio of singers who performed with the Dixie Cups, died on Tuesday in Tampa, Florida, following complications from a surgery last week. She was 76. The Dixie Cups debuted in ...

Jan. 14—The loss of Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes and Rosa Lee Hawkins of the Dixie Cups within a day of each other this week reminded me of that pop music phenomenon that flourished in the ...

Rosa Lee Hawkins, one of the three original singers in New Orleans rhythm & blues vocal trio the Dixie Cups, died Tuesday at Tampa General Hospital in Florida. She was 76. Older sister and fellow ...

There is a saying: "One person's trash is another person's treasure." Collectors understand this better than most other people. Old ads, milk bottles, worn shoes, spark plugs, barbed wire, insulators, ...