THE BOTTLE CHASE
THE BOTTLE CHAPTER
The Newsletter of The Bottle Chapter, Inc.,
A Chapter of The Coca-Cola Collectors Club
Volume 1, Issue 10
July - August 2003
COCA-COLA, COKE AND THEIR ACCOMPANYING GRAPHICS ARE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
OFFICER DIRECTORY
President
Joe Morales
1000 Ponce de Leon Blvd., #100
Coral Gables, FL 33134
305-448-7703
joescoke@aol.com
Vice President
Ken Cottrell
1202 N 52nd Street
Broken Arrow, OK 74014
918-357-3067
beartul@earthlink.net
Secretary
Bruce Braverman
2500 N Military Trail #230
Boca Raton, FL 33431
954-776-4020
cokecolect@aol.com
Treasurer
Ken Berg
21323 N.E. 18th Place
Miami, FL 33179
E-mail: Janken91@msn.com
Tel: (305) 931-6695
Secretary
Bruce Braverman
2500 N. Military Trail
Ste. 230
Boca Raton, FL 33431
E-mail: Cokecolect@aol.com
Tel: (561) 241-1010
Newsletter Editor
Arlyne Feintuch
10526 Pebble Cove Lane
Boca Raton, FL 33498
E-mail: Ahf686@aol.com
Tel: (561) 482-2685
Webmaster
David Bernard
803 N. 36th Street
Fort Smith, AR 72903
E-mail: Cocahog@aol.com
Tel: (479) 783-4926
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
by Joe Morales
Well, I guess that between the National TCCCC Convention in Chicago and the summer heat, everyone’s brains have been fried – in respect to submitting articles for this month’s newsletter. We have plenty of Convention photos, but no members submitted any articles.
The next update on recently issued 8 oz. bottles will be issued before the end of the month. In addition to e-mailing this newsletter and the bottle update, we will be mailing them to those of you unable to receive them in that matter. Remember that if the file ends up too large for your computer, both items will also be posted in the Members Only section of our website.
I hope everyone is enjoying their summer. Before you know it, another year will be passed and the Holiday Season will be upon us. Stay well and remind your loved ones how much you care for them.
Sincerely, Joe
Vice President’s Report
Ken’s Korner
Hi Everyone,
I have to apologize for not having an article this go around but we are in the middle of moving. In Fact, the movers will be here in about 2 hours to cart away all the heavy stuff. I hope to have pictures of my Coke room by the next article.
I do know there have been a lot of bottles that have come out & a lot more on the drawing board. I will have you updated on the next article. Please accept my apologies for running out of time. I should have managed better.
Ken Cottrell - Vice-President
TCCCC CONVENTION – CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
(OUR THANKS TO BARBARA RHYNE, DAVID BERNARD AND SHUN LAI FOR SOME GREAT PICTURES)
PLENTY OF BOTTLES AT THE SWAP MEET
DEBBIE ATCHESON AND CORRINE PERSYN
BARBARA RHYNE AT THE SILENT AUCTION
BOB AND NANCY PORTER FROM INDIANA
PHIL PEARSON FROM INDIANA
DENNIS "THE PINMAN"TUCKER FROM CANADA
A WHOLE LOT OF GOODIES AT THE SWAP MEET
Room hopping, anyone?
From left...Jayne Guidry, Don Reagen, Frederico Garriga and Xavi Picarin
Debbie Atcheson, Chan Ka Lok and Steve Atcheson at Taste of Chicago
The Navy Pier
Skyline of Chicago
How about a ride around the city?
COCA-COLA TIDBITS
Excerpts from the Coca-Cola Calendar
On May 8, 1886, pharmacist John Pemberton stirred up a fragrant caramel-colored syrup in a three-legged brass kettle. He carried a jug of this new formulation down the street to Jacob’s Pharmacy, Atlanta’s largest pharmacy at the time. That same day, the new product made its debut as a soda fountain drink for five cents a glass. At some point, by accident or by design, carbonated water was mixed with the syrup to create what would become the world’s largest-selling soft drink, COCA-COLA.
The first radio programming sponsored by The Coca-Cola Company was a series of romantic episodes involving Vivian, the COCA-COLA girl, and her boyfriend Jim. For 14 weeks, beginning on May 10, 1927, Jim and Vivian met in all parts of the country and visited interesting places. Over the course of the program, Jim courted Vivian at her debut party in Atlanta, at Yankee Stadium in New York, on the coast of California, at a circus in Salt Lake City, in a theater in Chicago, and at the Victoria birthday celebration in Canada. The program aired live from WEAF, the studio of NBC in New York, and was carried on 13 affiliate stations, including WSB in Atlanta.
One of the world’s largest signs for COCA-COLA is located on a hill called "Hacha," in Arica, Chile. The sign is 400 feet wide by 131 feet high and is made from 70,000 26-ounce bottles.
Two of the countries where COCA-COLA enjoys its highest per-person consumption per year have little else in common, particularly climate. They are Mexico at 326 botttles per persion, and Iceland, at 303 bottles per person.
One of the largest wall paintings in Asia features a can of COCA-COLA, measuring 200 feet by 180 feet. The hand-painted mural is on the side of the COCA-COLA bottling plant in Shatin, Hong Kong. The mural took the artist and three assistants three and a half months to complete. At 18 stories tall, this plant is also the tallest COCA-COLA plant in the world.
In 1929, the Glascock Brothers Manufacturing Company of Muncie, Indiana, introduced the first standard cooler sanctioned by The Coca-Cola Company. This open-top, oblong box held 72 bottles, 50 pounds of ice, and had enough extra storage space left to hold four additional cases of COCA-COLA. Priced at an inexpensive $12.50, bottlers purchased more than 32,000 coolers during their first year of availability. The machines were self-service units that required the consumer to pay a store clerk for the purchase.
From its inception, the traditional retail price of COCA-COLA whether sold in the 6 ½-ounce bottle or at the soda fountain, remained at a nickel. By the late 1940s, production costs were soaring and a handful of bottlers broke from the normal cost structures and charged dealers $ .90 to $1.00 per case rather than the standard $ .80 charge. The resulting effect to the consumer meant that the cost of a bottle of COCA-COLA varied between $ .06 and $ .10 at the retail level. The first recorded price increase occurred in 1946 in Los Angeles with bottlers in Louisiana, Illinois, and the Pacific Northwest quickly following. Atlanta was one of the last major markets to increase prices when it finally imposed the $1.00 wholesale case price in March 1959. By 1960, with a few isolated exceptions, the nickel COCA-COLA had disappeared from the American scene.
July Birthday Wishes To:
Leonard Adams
Karen Ates
Virgil Ates
Steve Brumbelow
Randy Campbell
Barb Flowers
Tom Gates
Jim Gauer
Marilyn Goodman
Tom Hutcherson
Ed Jaster
Lori Keyes
Garry Lankford
Catherine Latturner
Bubba Mann
Donna Marshall
Robert Mathison
Joe Morales
Rich Noterman
Elaine Richey
Billy Rowell
James Stahl
Troy Toombs
Ray Vis
Marlin Wilson
Oops, regrets to Douglas Byrnes
who celebrated his birthday on June 23rd
Hope you had a great day!
July Anniversaries:
Larry & Joyce Bailey
Dennis & Donna Bardin
Bob & Ann Bedessem
William & Susie Bell
David & Cindy Bernard
Morgan & Ann Cole
Richard & Sharon Corman
Jeff & Brenda Cummins
James & Jackie Davis
Lewis & Jean Dixon
Doug & Janet Norman
Mike & Teresa Phillips
August Birthday Wishes To:
Brian Allen
Jim Arnold
Nancy Anderson
Steve Atcheson
Donna Bardin
Linda Chaffee
Morgan Cole
Tamela Dias
Larry Grabowski
Deb Henrich
Jason Kissinger
Charlie Lassetter
Beth Blackburn
James Marshall
Juanita Merritt
Sue Locke Owen
Derald Porter
Phyl Redick
Alice Robinson
Arlene Rodriguez
Gary Ross
Larry Simpson
Phil Stanley
David Strain
Tim Sullivan
John Waddell Jr.
Tim Watkins
Don Williams
Kathy Willis
Joy Woolfolk
August Anniversaries:
Randy & Tracy Campbell
Arlyne & Steve Feintuch
Gary & Marilyn Goodman
Larry & Shelly Grabowski
Michael & Dawn Griesman
Bob & Deb Henrich
Mike & Wendy Lawrence
Larry & Mary Gwynne McDaniel
Tony & Sandy Partin
Fred & Muriel Romer
Troy & Heather Toombs
Douglas & Kathy Willis
Future Events
AUGUST 22 – 23, 2003
VINTAGE ADVERTISING SHOW & SALE
HOUSTON, TEXAS
SEPTEMBER 17 – 20, 2003
SEPTEMBERFEST
ELIZABETHTOWN, KY
OCTOBER 16 – 18, 2003
OLD DOMINION FALL FEST
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA
SEPTEMBER 17 – 20, 2003
THE 29TH ANNUAL MINNEFEST
MINNEAPOLIS, MN
OCTOBER 23, 24, 25, 2003
FALL FEVER IN THE OZARKS 2003
BRANSON, MISSOURI
Check out the Coca-Cola website, http://www2.coca-cola.com/ourcompany/recipes.html where you’ll find all sorts of recipes using Coca-Cola. Here you’ll also find links to interesting topics such as Coke Lore, Coca-Cola Stories, Collector’s Column, The World of Coca-Cola, Heritage, Around the World, About Bottling and other interesting Coca-Cola facts.
Editor’s Note: Please make your newsletter as interesting to our members as possible! Please submit articles and photos to me at ahf686@aol.com or mail to me at 10526 Pebble Cove Lane, Boca Raton, FL 33498
Many thanks,
Arlyne Feintuch
