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Title: New Coke museum Post by: cohammer on September 17, 2016, 07:53:41 pm Went to the Cedartown GA Coke museum today and they had some pretty neat machines . I had seen these last year at the collectors shop where they were stored but they are not displaying the Rome box I had hoped to see again to photo . They had one of the oldest to exist from 1912 . Then a great icy O model 120 , a great drum cooler .
Title: Re: New Coke museum Post by: cohammer on September 17, 2016, 07:59:14 pm Few more
Title: Re: New Coke museum Post by: cohammer on September 17, 2016, 08:04:42 pm Also a 1924 bottle sterilizer
Title: Re: New Coke museum Post by: cormy on September 17, 2016, 08:55:40 pm Cool..cant believe the size of those bottle signs..in the last pic :jawdrop:
Title: Re: New Coke museum Post by: cohammer on September 17, 2016, 09:40:41 pm The biggest I have ever seen , think it was 12 ft , 9 ft , 6 and 3
Title: Re: New Coke museum Post by: crackerman_don on September 18, 2016, 07:25:00 am Great looking Icy- O machines and and that first one was neat too. Thanks for sharing
Don Title: Re: New Coke museum Post by: SodaShopNick on September 18, 2016, 09:21:20 am Wow, very cool, thanks for posting
Title: Re: New Coke museum Post by: Eric on September 18, 2016, 10:08:36 am Love seeing rare stuff.. thanks for taking the time to post and share... Would love to walk through that place.
Title: Re: New Coke museum Post by: Jim on September 18, 2016, 12:04:51 pm Very cool indeed ! ! !
Thanks for sharing! The museum is out in the middle of nowhere too! Title: Re: New Coke museum Post by: sc1101 on September 18, 2016, 09:38:44 pm I hope to make it there someday. Looks like a great place.
Title: Re: New Coke museum Post by: halehouse on September 19, 2016, 05:01:18 pm Pretty neat that they are using an old bottling plant.
Title: Re: New Coke museum Post by: Lincoln22 on September 19, 2016, 08:32:50 pm Absolutely love the early rarely seen coolers. What history!
Title: Re: New Coke museum Post by: cohammer on September 19, 2016, 10:06:04 pm The Rome Coca Cola company was started in 1901 and they opened the Cedartown bottling company and Carrollton , Cartersville ,dalton , fort valley and Valdosta GA at some point or acquired them .The sad part is I started plumbing in 1978 and we worked at all of them and Rome GA was the largest but torn down in late 1980s when the Barron family sold all its locations after owning for 86 years to the Atlanta Coca Cola franchise . The building in Cedartown is a small one that use to have two large limestone Coke bottles in front of the building but not sure where they went below is what the entrance still looks like . I am thankful to the 19 year old that bought the building and opened the museum too much of our history leaves us every day . Sorry to bore with all this but thought it was interesting .
Title: Re: New Coke museum Post by: Eric on September 19, 2016, 10:43:25 pm wow.. just checked out the museum online.. and the story of the 19 year old collector... what a great way to display his collection.
Title: Re: New Coke museum Post by: Ross on September 20, 2016, 02:08:33 pm Very interesting story. Will have to add it to my places to visit list.
Here is their website: http://cedartowncokemuseum.org/ (http://cedartowncokemuseum.org/) Title: Re: New Coke museum Post by: SodaShopNick on September 20, 2016, 06:39:56 pm Wow, what a great story and what an old soul there must be in that 19 year. Just incredible.
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