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Keeping Cool with the Coca-Cola Polar Bears

The Coca-Cola Company is known for creating iconic advertisement. Around the holiday season, the image of Santa Claus comes to mind. You can read all about Coke’s history with the man in red here. Another cold weather favorite are the Coca-Cola Polar Bears. Early Imagery The polar bear showed up in Coca-Cola advertising decades before […]

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The Coke Bottle: An Unforgettable Shape

Although we’ve touched briefly on the history of the Coke bottle here, we’d like to examine the iconic object further. Read on for a brief but enlightening explanation of how the Coke bottle came to be. Fountains Only From its invention by John Stith Pemberton in 1886 until 1899, Coca-Cola was available only as a […]

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Coca-Cola Memorabilia: Thermometers

Last month we started our look at the long history of Coca-Cola memorabilia and paraphernalia. This month we turn our attention to thermometers. Since the Rock Hill Coca-Cola Bottling Company has been around for over 100 years, we had the opportunity to see a lot of these items come and go. Recently, we’ve seen a […]