Post Time：Oct 12,2012Classify:Industry NewsView：301
The last of the iconic 6.5-ounce Coke bottles has reached the end of the line in the US.
The bottles, cast for the Minneapolis Coke bottling works in 1948 was the last glass returnable bottle filled and capped in the US. "This is the last one," LeRoy Telstad, vice president and general manager, said, holding the bottle high before handing it off to auctioneer Jon Kohner.
Five minutes and $2,000 later, Michael Faber, president of Viking
Others who want their own
The Winona Coca-Cola Bottling Comapany has been filling the bottle since it opened in 1932. The first Coke was sold in 1886 at a drugstore soda fountain in
The bottled Coke first sold in Vicksburg and then across the US. It wouldn't be sold in 'Coke bottles' for 21 years. The iconic bottle was the product of a 1915 design competition won by Root Glass Company in Indiana.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.comAuthor: shangyi
