Cheeves Brothers were among the first franchise bottlers of Chero Cola in 1912 at their Newberry Florida plant. By the time they opened a branch at Gainesville the next year, they had discontinued Chero Cola. Their 1913 bottle with both towns was designed to copy the Chero Cola logo. The Cheeves...
I've seen pics of this bottle or another like it. Chinotto was apparently a variety of orange grown in the Mediterranean. Google has lots of information on the brand post WWII. Fanta even had a Chinotto flavor.
The earliest deco soda bottle design that I'm aware of is the 1908 Bludwine "hobbleskirt" which was later patented. The Gay-Ola "four ring" design was patented in 1914 in response to a lawsuit by Coca-Cola. Coke lost that lawsuit and developed their own patented bottle a year later for their own...
I have clear (C) Chattanooga TRADE MARK from ’44 and ’45 and a clear Laurens ’45 TRADE MARK.
I also have Owens D-Pat clear and green with plain base dated ’41 through ’44 and found on Guadalcanal, Saipan, and New Guinea.
I also have ’42 San Francisco and ’43 Oakland, both found mixed with...
I collect WWII Coke bottles based on provenance where found in the Pacific Theatre.
Attached is a list.
I hope to write an article on WWII Coca-Cola in the Pacific and relate it to my dad's service as a US Marine in the war. I've found some good background information in the writings of E...
I just published an updated version of my 15-year-old KolaWars: Birmingham book. Currently, there are five different soda related books available on my website www.kolawars.com.
BIRMINGHAM’S KOLA WARS
In 1913, the residents of Birmingham drank more Coca-Cola than those in any city in the...