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Villa Rica Ga. coke cola bottle - 10/10/2003 4:08:33 PM    r_u_readyet   Posts: 1 Joined: 10/10/2003 Status: offline would any one know the price and age of the bottle I own. it has a mold seem, it has bubbles in the glass and it is clear colored. Printed on the bottle is coca cola, trademark registered, then has a circle and is engraved VR electric light & power co,bottlers,villa rica georgia. any help would be appreciated. I can not find anything on the web with Villa rica on coke cola bottles. Post #: 1

RE: Villa Rica Ga. coke cola bottle - 10/10/2003 4:33:48 PM    Guest i found this info on the web i will put a link at the bottom The Villa Rica Coca-Cola Bottling Company operated under the name Villa Rica Electric Light and Power Company. It had a twenty-year contract and operated from 1903 to 1923, when its territory was divided between the Carrolton and Rome Bottling companies. The original territory was Villa Rica, Douglasville, Winston and Tallapoosa, Georgia and Fruithurst and Muscadine, Alabama. (The Carrolton Coca-Cola plant served Bremen.) The delivery of "coke" to Tallapoosa and the Alabama towns was accompanied by rail shipment to Tallapoosa, where it was stored until route men disbursed it with a wagon and four mules. These deliveries often required a week or more. The bottling operation in Villa Rica was very small, with an average of 50 to 100 cases being produced per week. A foot-operated pedal accomplished the crowning operation. Later, a semi-automatic operation was installed. The machine dispensed the syrup; the carbonated water was put in by hand, and the crowning was done automatically. In addition to bottling, the company also in earlier years operated a 500-volt D.C. generator, which was the only electric power the city had. Several of the older homes in Villa Rica were wired for direct current. The streetlights were also D.C. The company also had an ice manufacturing plant, with the ice being delivered by mule and wagon, and later by truck. W. B. Powell, Sr. was manager of the whole Villa Rica Light and Power Company with its various operational interests. Mr. Powell's son, W. B., Jr., said that when he was in high school, he and other high school boys worked in the bottling plant after school. During the winter, when sales were down, they operated from 3 p.m. until dark. When sales were up during the summer, they worked full-time. An interesting aside to this Coca-Cola Bottling history is the fact that the same company bottled Orange Crush, Strawberry Soda, Blossom Soda, Lemon and Lime Soda and Nu-Grape. The brief history of the Villa Rica Coca-Cola operation comes from "The History of Villa Rica (City of Gold)", researched and written by Mary Talley Anderson of Villa Rica. And this article is on page 136 of Georgia Early Embossed Crown Top Soda Bottles, Abbeville to Wrightsville, by Carl Barnett and Ken Nease. This book is full of information like this, about various bottling companies - 264 pages of awesome photos of every bottle and brand imaginable, along with ads, other types of photos and more... cant help with pricing, but its a keeper! http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/thesodafizz/2003aug2.html diggerjeff (in reply to r_u_readyet)   Post #: 2

RE: Villa Rica Ga. coke cola bottle - 2/10/2004 11:52:39 PM    grime55   Posts: 25 Joined: 9/10/2003 Status: offline i have the same bottle. ihunted it for years then found one in an auction. i think i payed over a hundred dollars for it. that is the most i ever spent on a coke bottle. if you ever want to sell it let me know i would love to have another one here is my email grime5@earthlink.net thanks greg (in reply to r_u_readyet) Post #: 3

RE: Villa Rica Ga. coke cola bottle - 11/17/2004 4:40:19 PM    digdug Posts: 609 Joined: 11/4/2004 From: Atlanta Status: offline This bottle has really gone up in price. I saw in a price guide it is worth around $200 to $250. I think it was Petreti's Coca Cola Price Guide. (in reply to r_u_readyet) Post #: 4

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