Coca~Cola expert needed

[Woodland Detectors]

Our 1929 lodge is being demoed for renovation. And the things behind the walls are pretty cool including this coca cola bottle cap with a cork seal.

Any one?

 

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[Mackaydon]

http://www.vintagedepotdirect.com/old-bottlecaps.html

 

[DirtyMike]

From the 50's

 

[Woodland Detectors]

That's cool.

 

[AU24K]

I can remember back in the early 60's when I was a kid, pop bottles had caps with cork. Beer bottles, too I suppose...
When the "twist-offs" came along, I thought that was pretty cool...didn't need Dad's "church key" to open the sodas.

Nice find!


Scott

 

[BioProfessor]

Either you are too young or I'm too old.

I remember pulling the cork out to see what was underneath as Coke was the first - I think - to put something under the cap that might win a prize. They had little boards to glue the tops to. Complete the card, win the game.

Man I'm feeling old.

Daryl

 

[BioProfessor]

Did you ever fill a card Or were you always ONE short!!!

Daryl

 

[QUICKSILVER (appletree)]

hey Daryl, I remember while growing up in the early to mid 70's my Mother drank RC Cola and there would be alot of the times 10 cents amount under the cork, higher amounts were also found as well. They said LOOK on the cap!

 

[Ramitt]

Soda was a lot more fun back when. Now there is too many and not much excitement. Or maybe i am just getting old.

 

[Breezie]

Well, I'm feeling even older . . .when I was a kid, my Dad would use an ice pick to punch a hole through the cap so I could drink the Co-Cola (as we say down South) through the hole. I don't know why that was a novelty, but it was . . .and about half way finished, I could see tiny cork pieces floating on top of the Coke!

PS: Daryl, I was one short on filling the card

Breezie

 

[AU24K]

How 'bout those old "conetop" beer cans?

Scott

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I saved a cool site on bottlecaps if you want to sell but I cant find it.

I did find this. http://www.bottlecap.net/cgi-bin/cap.cgi?cocacola

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Heres the good site. Some of those old beer caps are worth bucks. http://www.thebottlecapman.com/


Yours is probably in the $5 range.
http://www.thebottlecapman.com/Bottle Caps Soda Used Cork1.htm

 

[jimbob450]

I remember taking the cork out very carfully and putting the caps on a baseball
type cap and putting the cork on the inside and the cap would have the lid
stuck to it. All the soda companys had bottle caps like that . It looked kinda
cool to have 7 or 8 different ones on your cap. Jimbob

 

[BioProfessor]

Be careful JimBob. You might be a redneck if .. . . . . . . .

Daryl

 

[SODABOTTLEBOB]

What else did you find in that wall "vault?"

I saw the green check mark, but I also noticed the "Reply to this topic" option was still activated, so I didn't think anyone would mind this additional tid-bit of information.

Typically the dating of Coke products can be directly linked to specific word useage. In this case we have, "Minimum Contents - 6 Fluid Oz - Reg U.S. Pat Office." In the snippet below from my "Coke Bottle Checklist" booklet, you will see various word desiginations found in chronological order for the earlier (1915 thru 1965) bottles that Coca Cola used over the years. (Also know as the "Hobbleskirt" - "Contour" or "Mae West" bottle). These particular dates are for the "embossed" bottles. The painted labels (ACLs) were introduced around 1957 thru the early 1960s.

Thus, your bottle cap, although shown with a slightly different wording below, would fall into the number 4. range ... 1951 thru 1958.

~ * ~

Regarding antidotes, the least I recall paying for a bottle of Coke was ten cents, with a two cent deposit. My friend's uncle used to own a gas station that had one of those lift-top soda pop coolers. It was the type where you had to slide your selected bottle along the hanging track, and then pull it through the release chamber. And even though there were many times when the uncle would give us free drinks, there were also times when we would "help ourselves" and un-cap one or more of the bottles while it was still hanging, and then insert a straw into it and sip out the contents without paying for it. Never once did we get caught, but there was little the uncle could do to prevent this sort of thing. Of course, because of the empty bottles, he always knew "when a mouse had been in the cupboard!"

Take care ... and ... "Have a Coke and a Smile!" < Introduced in 1979

SODABOTTLEBOB

P.S. Here's a quick link for other slogans and dates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_slogans

 

[SODABOTTLEBOB]

P.S.

It dawned on me that some of you may not be familiar with a "Slider Cooler."

Here's a couple of photos; shown without the bottles that would hang by the lip in the track.

SBB

 

[SODABOTTLEBOB]

And if your are really into Coke bottle chronology, try this as well ...

P.S. The first "Prototype" shown in the link is "extremely rare," with few known examples outside of the Coca Cola museum in Atlanta, Georgia. With so few examples in existence, it is difficult to establish a value, but it is estimated to be worth at least $2500.00 to $5000.00+ depending on condition!

http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2009/11/the-evolution-of-the-cocacola-contour-bottle.html


SBB

 

[Noodle]

SBB, my grandparents had a "mercantile store" in rural Louisiana in the 1950s, and inside they had one of those "slider" coke machines. I recall there being a round (4-5") sticker on top that said 5-cents. The day came when the price went up, and they let me, a 6-8 year old, replace the round sticker with one that said 6-cents. The store burned just a few years later, and the rest is history. That store was historical; butcher shop, shoes, yardage, fresh veggies, Hit Parade Magazines, etc. I miss it, but love the memory.

 

[Ramitt]

Good stuff SBBob. Adding historical info should always be welcome on any thread. I miss Coke in glass bottles back when a soda was a treat, not everyday.