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Graveyard Coca-Cola's - 8/16/2011 6:02:46 PM    pale scotsman   Posts: 31 Joined: 3/22/2010 Status: offline Found this little cemetery by word of mouth in a waaaaayyyy out of the way community in lower Alabama. Three marked adult graves, and 2 unmarked child graves completely surrounded with mostly Pat D bottles, but with some '23's, and maybe a 1915 or two mixed in. I'll keep the exact location secret, just thought it was neat and wanted to share it. Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: Graveyard Coca-Cola's - 8/16/2011 6:03:15 PM    pale scotsman   Posts: 31 Joined: 3/22/2010 Status: offline Here's another pic. Attachment (1) (in reply to pale scotsman) Post #: 2

RE: Graveyard Coca-Cola's - 8/16/2011 6:05:22 PM    pale scotsman   Posts: 31 Joined: 3/22/2010 Status: offline And one more. Attachment (1) (in reply to pale scotsman) Post #: 3

RE: Graveyard Coca-Cola's - 8/16/2011 6:07:31 PM    kwalker Posts: 731 Joined: 5/14/2010 From: Woodstown, NJ Status: offline Looks like a few have been snuck outta there as well, that's pretty neat. There's a post around here from way back when a pair stumbled upon a grave surrounded with Paine's Celery Compound bottles... _____________________________ Looking for all Sea Isle City, NJ bottles!! (in reply to pale scotsman) Post #: 4

RE: Graveyard Coca-Cola's - 8/16/2011 6:20:08 PM    TJSJHART Posts: 1332 Joined: 9/10/2007 From: Arizona Status: offline JUST WONDERIN WHAT ARE THE CITIES ON THE COKES? AT LEAST A MAJORITY OF THEM _____________________________ .N.R.A. LIFER (in reply to kwalker) Post #: 5

RE: Graveyard Coca-Cola's - 8/16/2011 7:02:25 PM    pale scotsman   Posts: 31 Joined: 3/22/2010 Status: offline They are mostly Mobile, AL, Pensacola, FL, Frisco City, AL, and Andalusia, AL.  Some nice small town Florida ones too.  De Funiak Springs and Trenton.  It does look like some walked off through the years.  No way I'm taking something off someones grave site.  That's heaps bad ju-ju. (in reply to TJSJHART) Post #: 6

RE: Graveyard Coca-Cola's - 8/16/2011 9:48:27 PM    cobaltbot Posts: 3878 Joined: 4/7/2006 From: Delta, PA Status: offline That's cool!  Maybe adding some would be great Karma! _____________________________ My tombstone will read: He went out for a walk and never came back.... (in reply to pale scotsman) Post #: 7

RE: Graveyard Coca-Cola's - 8/16/2011 10:46:35 PM    surfaceone Posts: 7119 Joined: 12/9/2008 Status: offline Good thought, Steve. Thanks, Ian for showing us these well tended graves with the Coca-Cola twist. The stones look pretty aged, are there no DOD's? What are the porcelain looking items decorating the graves? Can you guesstimate their vintage? It looks like people have been leaving flowers. Speaks well of the community or the caretakers. (in reply to cobaltbot) Post #: 8

RE: Graveyard Coca-Cola's - 8/16/2011 10:48:21 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4294 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline What's weird is that the ground looks relatively newly turned over. The stones certainly look weathered, so why do they look like newly dug graves? _____________________________ Looking for bottles from Glen Ridge, Montclair, Bloomfield, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, and if I like 'em, any other bottles from Essex County NJ! Also Manahawkin NJ! Message me if you want to find them a new home. (in reply to surfaceone) Post #: 9

RE: Graveyard Coca-Cola's - 8/17/2011 12:23:43 AM    pale scotsman   Posts: 31 Joined: 3/22/2010 Status: offline The lady I talked to remembered the bottles from when she was a kid, her grandparents are buried there, and she is close to 50.  She remembers stories that the family that had these plots was very poor and could barely afford the headstones.  They did what they could to decorate the graves.  One has a date of birth, but the stone is so porous that the date of death is illegible.  The other stones must have had something painted or written on them.  They are blank now.  The 2 child graves are completely unmarked. Someone has to be spraying these down with weed and grass killer.  Stuff down here grows like crazy, and these plots would be covered up in no time at all.  I'll check out the figurines closer next time I'm out that way.  (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 10

RE: Graveyard Coca-Cola's - 8/17/2011 12:51:46 AM    splante Posts: 1211 Joined: 5/25/2010 From: RI Status: offline is that what they meat by "bottoms up".....(ok that was bad)......great that for the majority no sleeze bag has taken them...around here we seem to have a rash of vandals destroying headstones.couldnt imagine what they would do if they came across those bottles _____________________________ s plante Will buy,or trade for Rhode Island ACL bottles (in reply to pale scotsman) Post #: 11

RE: Graveyard Coca-Cola's - 8/17/2011 11:49:57 AM    RedGinger Posts: 6727 Joined: 12/7/2007 Status: offline That is really neat.  Thanks for sharing with us.  I didn't see this post at first, as I am not a soda collector.  To try to answer Wheelah's question, perhaps the graves have sunken over time.  I've seen that, and didn't know what it was at first.  For pale scotsman, try rubbing some flour all over the stones, or doing grave rubbings, to see the dates.  Both can be easily cleaned up and won't harm the stones.   _____________________________ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyVTdY2BI3g (in reply to splante) Post #: 12

RE: Graveyard Coca-Cola's - 8/17/2011 6:25:25 PM    carobran   Posts: 3344 Joined: 6/10/2011 From: Heart of Dixie Status: offline maybe coke kills grass???? _____________________________ PROUD TO BE FROM THE SOUTH! (in reply to RedGinger) Post #: 13

RE: Graveyard Coca-Cola's - 8/18/2011 7:48:43 PM    VTdigger   Posts: 329 Joined: 4/1/2011 Status: offline That's cool!  Though, I'm surprised some jerk didn't nab them from the gravesite.  Close to where I live ( a few towns over) some dirtbags have been stealing bronze plaques from war heroes graves to sell for scrap. It takes a lowdown scumbag to do such a thing and I hope Karma gives the guilty parties a huge kick in the butt. < Message edited by VTdigger -- 8/18/2011 7:52:56 PM > _____________________________ If there is a bottle... I will find it. Looking for Local embossed bottles from Bennington VT and Bennington county (in reply to carobran) Post #: 14

RE: Graveyard Coca-Cola's - 8/19/2011 9:17:40 AM    pale scotsman   Posts: 31 Joined: 3/22/2010 Status: offline That war plaque stealing is about as low as you can get! When I first moved down here you saw quite a few CSA markers for the confederate soldiers in the older cemeteries. Most of them were pulled by the families for safe keeping, but many walked off in the middle of the night. Attachment (1) (in reply to VTdigger) Post #: 15

RE: Graveyard Coca-Cola's - 8/19/2011 11:37:37 AM    cramer1399   Posts: 100 Joined: 6/3/2011 Status: offline ... Attachment (1) _____________________________ As i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i fear no evil, because i art the meanest motherf***er in the valley! Mike (in reply to pale scotsman) Post #: 16

RE: Graveyard Coca-Cola's - 2/3/2012 1:59:57 PM    oldcokes   Posts: 1 Joined: 11/18/2010 Status: offline Hello Scotsman! That is really nice grave marking! Good thing its still there. I wonder if earlier bottles were replaced with later ones over time? By the way, I bought a broken Jones Mill SS on e-bay a while back (for a LOT of $$ too). Was that yours? (in reply to cramer1399) Post #: 17

RE: Graveyard Coca-Cola's - 2/3/2012 2:44:30 PM    carobran   Posts: 3344 Joined: 6/10/2011 From: Heart of Dixie Status: offline quote: ORIGINAL: pale scotsman Here's another pic. What are the clear bottles in this pic? _____________________________ PROUD TO BE FROM THE SOUTH! (in reply to pale scotsman) Post #: 18

RE: Graveyard Coca-Cola's - 2/3/2012 7:01:03 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 3752 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline quote: ORIGINAL: carobran quote: ORIGINAL: pale scotsman Here's another pic. What are the clear bottles in this pic? What ya wanna know for?   Looking for an inane opportunity plug for Kosizuki Krap? _____________________________ Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something. (in reply to carobran) Post #: 19

RE: Graveyard Coca-Cola's - 2/3/2012 9:16:38 PM    carobran   Posts: 3344 Joined: 6/10/2011 From: Heart of Dixie Status: offline What are you talking about?I just wanted to know what it was since all the others are cokes.Is that ok wiyh you?? _____________________________ PROUD TO BE FROM THE SOUTH! (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 20

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