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RE: my Copycat Cola's - 7/29/2010 12:45:39 AM   
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Status: offline 		Here is the other copycat I found in the boxes.  It is a My Coca-Co from Lexington, Ky.  It is bimal and an amber so dark it is black.




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RE: my Copycat Cola's - 7/29/2010 12:57:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		I've got a beautiful one of those right down to the freaking crack across the middle of the bottle. Would have been mint aside from that.

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RE: my Copycat Cola's - 7/29/2010 12:57:32 AM   
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Great find! ... Great job!

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RE: my Copycat Cola's - 7/29/2010 1:04:12 AM   
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Status: offline 		Great bottles, Guys! Here's is a Lee's Cola from Tn, in Coke type script lettering. It was very short lived. Tennessee bottler's were notorious for copy cat trademark infringement, just slightly less so than Alabame bottlers. In Memphis Tn alone their was KOKE in amber glass, MY-COCA in aqua and amber, and all others noted.




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RE: my Copycat Cola's - 7/29/2010 1:28:30 AM   
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Status: offline 		Creekwalker, I have never seen the Lee's Cola, is that a rare one?  Are the Jitney-Cola's I have from Knoxville rare?  What about the Tru-Cola from Morristown?  I know that is a lot of questions but wanted some info on them.  Thanks.

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RE: my Copycat Cola's - 7/29/2010 7:36:11 AM   
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ORIGINAL: stephengray

Here is the other copycat I found in the boxes.  It is a My Coca-Co from Lexington, Ky.  It is bimal and an amber so dark it is black.




I have nineteen different My-Cocas from various states plus a serving tray, watch fob, and bottle opener. The inventor of My-Coca was Diva Brown whose husband J. C. Mayfield was chief chemist and partner with Coca-Cola inventor Doc Pemberton in Atlanta in the 1880's. Mayfield later started Celery=Cola and KOKE. Diva Brown also sold what she claimed was the original Coca-Cola formula to people who started Sherro, Celery Coca, Murphy's Coca-Cola, Fletcher's Coca-Cola, Mo-Cola, Orange Cola, Orange Smash, Deacon Brown, Gleeola, Gay-Ola, Brainol, Glee-Nol, Vera-Coca, Celery=Cola, KOKE, Wine Coca, Lima Cola and other cola drinks.

I wrote a book on Diva Brown "The Original Coca-Cola Woman" but it is currently out-of-print. I should have more copies available in a few weeks.

http://kolawars.com/diva.html






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RE: my Copycat Cola's - 7/29/2010 7:38:29 AM   
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Great bottles, Guys! Here's is a Lee's Cola from Tn, in Coke type script lettering. It was very short lived. Tennessee bottler's were notorious for copy cat trademark infringement, just slightly less so than Alabame bottlers. In Memphis Tn alone their was KOKE in amber glass, MY-COCA in aqua and amber, and all others noted.





A couple of these have shown up on ebay in the lat couple of years.

I have a great embossed bottle from Jellico TN that is a script Jellico-la.

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RE: my Copycat Cola's - 7/29/2010 1:00:43 PM   
stephengray

 

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Status: offline 		Dennis, thanks for all of the info you have provided.  I collect the bottles and have never had the time to research them or anything.  I picked my bottles up at antique shops, flea markets and bottle shows.  I wonder how many pop bottles are out there that could be called a copycat?  Do you have any idea?  I mean, I have more than 20 and I was only serious about them for a year or so.  Then I joined the military and that was it for bottles. 

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RE: my Copycat Cola's - 7/29/2010 3:48:52 PM   
celerycola

 

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Status: offline 		The National Bottler's Gazette published a list around 1918 that listed 300 colas, kolas, olas, etc. I have information on around three thousand brand name drinks - not all colas. That information is anything from just the name, town, and approximate date to hundreds of pages of information depending on the brand. I hope to eventually get the information into a database so I an actually make use of it.

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RE: my Copycat Cola's - 7/30/2010 1:25:01 AM   
stephengray

 

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Status: offline 		Dennis, here is the other side of that OKC Gay-Ola.




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RE: my Copycat Cola's - 8/3/2010 3:24:23 AM   
CreekWalker

 

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Status: offline 		I seldom  see the Tn based Jitney Cola bottles in our area, In my hometown the old Jitney Jungle stone advertised 5 cent Pepsi products. The Tru-cola from Morristown may be scarce. The Lee's Cola has inched up in value from below $45 to $125 in five years.

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RE: my Copycat Cola's - 1/5/2012 10:03:41 AM   
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2. clear bimal Tru-Cola Norristown, Tenn.


Tru-Cola Chattanooga label.

There are embossed bottles from Chattanooga TN and Evergreen AL similar to the Morristown TN. There is also a crock ice scoop with the Tru-Cola trade mark.





I just bought this Tru-Cola Chattanooga advertising pitcher. I'm guessing it was used to pour free samples when Tru-Cola was introduced around 1910.


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RE: my Copycat Cola's - 1/5/2012 4:54:16 PM   
CreekWalker

 

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Status: offline 		I have a later ACL Tru-Cola , which is less Coca Cola in design and more RC cola. I have forgotten the city of origin.

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RE: my Copycat Cola's - 1/5/2012 5:13:44 PM   
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RE: my Copycat Cola's - 1/5/2012 6:09:35 PM   
celerycola

 

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ORIGINAL: midway49

Just dug couple of weeks ago





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RE: my Copycat Cola's - 1/6/2012 12:42:41 AM   
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RE: my Copycat Cola's - 1/6/2012 1:28:10 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hey Stephen,
I can post a couple. I'll post my Double Cola Jr and a Rola-Cola.
I also have a Big Giant Cola, a 3-V Cola, a bunch of Royal Crown Cola's and a bunch of Red Rock Cola's.
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RE: my Copycat Cola's - 1/6/2012 1:29:38 AM   
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