Uncle Joe, Aunt Ida and their "friends"

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Uncle Joe, Aunt Ida and their "friends".

The two sizes (9-ounce and 4-ounce) of "Uncle Joe" amber, embossed bottles are shown beside the green, embossed "Aunt Ida." When payment is received, item mailed and item received, the 9-ounce, embossed, clear "Sonny Boy" bottle will join the other three to complete the "family." (The Sonny Boy bottle is like the large Uncle Joe bottle, but is clear, instead of amber.)

Also shown is my aqua and amber (slightly behind the larger "Uncle Joe" bottle) Hire's embossed bottles. Peeking between the two Joe's is a "Yo-Yo" embossed bottle. Between Joe and Ida you can barely see my Virginia Etna and a paper label Schweppe's Indian Quinine Water bottle. Then comes amber 7Up and a small Virginia Dare American White Wine bottle next to an extract bottle, also for Virginia Dare.

Here is the top portion of the floor-to-ceiling shelf unit where Uncle Joe and Aunt Ida "live":

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In the center of this photo is a small bottle with one of the first labels of Coca-Cola. It is an original. It was "found" in the lab of one of the old bottling plants. I would have no clue what is inside it - and it is also capped.
I am fortunate to have it.
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This particular room is three walls of shelves. (The fourth wall is framed paper items and a window.)
Here is the top portion of one of the other shelves:

I am not really into "hill billy" collectibles, but I couldn't pass these up for the price. On the left is a pull-tab can for Hill Billy Joose. On the right is a 6-pack of Hill Billy bottles. I got the bottles at the show in Mansfield and the can at the FOHBC National Show in Louisville. I will share other acquisitions from Louisville when I get them all unpacked.

One of the walls has what I refer to as the "Nascar Shelf". It began as a way to display Coke's Nascar driver bottles, but now it has more than just the Nascar bottles. Actually, I've removed some of them to make room for other things. I plan to remove all the Nascar stuff, and completely re-do the shelf in the future weeks.

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I acquired this full case of Rolo bottles the other day in an antique shop in North Carolina. The box is perfect and I couldn't believe I got the whole thing for $20.

More things will come, but I thought I'd share some of my collection with you - but those who have been to my house will tell you - this is only a very small amount of it.

Oh yeah!

Couldn't leave out the items that gave me my nickname, "CokeGirl"...

Although I do not seek out Coke memorabilia like I once did -
after Coke's attorney's took my domain away from me -
I still have a several hundred bottles....

So, some of them have been moved to a shelf in the corner of my bedroom,
one that is hidden when the bathroom's door is open.
Then there are boxes and boxes of them in my 16' x 30' storage building...
I just do not have room for them anymore....