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| Skeptical about the success of bottling Coke, Asa Candler, founder of The Coca-Cola Company, charged only $1 for bottling rights. |
The green color of the contour bottle is known as Georgia Green, a reference to the home of Coca-Cola. Bottles used outside the United States are predominantly clear.
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A historical marker is located at the site of the former Root Glass Factory in Terre Haute, Indiana to commemorate the Coca-Cola contour bottle's birthplace.
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Chapman Root, the owner of the Root Glass Company, received a royalty payment of five cents per gross of contour bottles produced. He became the wealthiest man in Indiana.
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The first television advertisement featuring Coca-Cola's contour bottle appeared during CBS' "The Edgar Bergen-Charlie McCarthy Show" in 1950.
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During World War II, five billion bottles of Coca-Cola were sent to American servicemen and 64 portable bottling plants were established to quench the troops' thirst and remind them of home.
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American soldiers in World War II held a 25-cents raffle for a bottle of Coca-Cola to serve as a reminder of home. The raffle raised $4,000.
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| Famous industrial designer Raymond Loewy described the contour bottle "as a masterpiece of scientific, functional planning" and "one of the classics of packaging history." |
Bottlers in Valdosta and Thomasville, Georgia have the Coca-Cola contour bottle embossed on their tombstones.
The Coca-Cola contour bottle was so durable that on average, it would make more than 37 round trips from the bottling plant to the retailer.
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| FUN FACTS: |
| If all of the Coca-Cola ever produced was put into 8-ounce contour bottles:
- There would be more than six trillion bottles, which stacked end-to-end, would reach 468 miles high - 85 times taller than Mount Everest.
- The six trillion bottles roughly equals 966 bottles - or more than 56 gallons of Coca-Cola - for every person in the world.
- If laid end-to-end, these bottles would reach to the moon and back 1,677 times.
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The Coca-Cola contour bottle is so distinctive that it can be recognized in the dark.
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Blues players have been known to use necks from Coca-Cola's contour bottles to play slide guitar, coining the term 'bottleneck slide'.
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In 1930, artist Fred Mizen painted a picture of Santa Claus drinking a bottle of Coca-Cola, joining the brand with the holiday icon for the first time.
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Making art out of daily life, Andy Warhol featured Coca-Cola's contour bottle in his modern paintings. Warhol's "Green Coca-Cola Bottles" series is currently part of a collection at The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
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Artists such as Howard Finster, Tom Wesselmann, Ulrich Walter and Carlos Vergar have featured the contour bottle in their masterpieces.
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| The contour bottle has been in a multitude of movies, including:
- 3000 Miles to Graceland
- A Walk on the Moon
- Behind Enemy Lines
- Bobby Jones
- Catch Me if You Can
- The Gods Must Be Crazy
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The Coca-Cola contour bottle is often referred to as the 'hobble-skirt' design based on its resemblance to a dress from the early 1900s. The dress was so narrow below the knees that it restricted normal movement - causing a woman wearing the skirt to hobble.
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| In different regions of the world, eyeglasses with very thick lenses in the frame are called Coke bottle glasses. |
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