A variety of Coca Cola collectibles, Coca Cola Cookie jar, Sugar Shaker, Strawholder, Napkin Holder and more Coca Cola collectibles, for your home or collection.
Coca Cola Collectibles
Welcome to Cornerstone Collectibles where you will find a nice selection of collectible products. On this page, we feature our Coke Collectibles, Coca Cola Collectibles. We offer a nice selection of usable, collectible products in that wonderful nostalgic Coca Cola style.
We carry Coca Cola sugar shakers, tin signs, strawholders, salt & pepper shakers, planters, straw dispensers, cookie jar, napkin holders and many more collectible Coke items.
If you're a Coca Cola collector or know somebody who is, be sure to take a look at the collectible products that are featured on this page. Check back often as new products are added continually.
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In May, 1886, Coca Cola was invented by Doctor John Pemberton a pharmacist from Atlanta, Georgia. John Pemberton concocted the Coca Cola formula in a three legged brass kettle in his backyard. The name was a suggestion given by John Pemberton's bookkeeper Frank Robinson.
Being a bookkeeper, Frank Robinson also had excellent penmanship. It was he who first scripted "Coca Cola" into the flowing letters which has become the famous logo of today.
The soft drink was first sold to the public at the soda fountain in Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta on May 8, 1886.
About nine servings of the soft drink were sold each day. Sales for that first year added up to a total of about $50. The funny thing was that it cost John Pemberton over $70 in expenses, so the first year of sales were a loss.
Until 1905, the soft drink, marketed as a tonic, contained extracts of cocaine as well as the caffeine-rich kola nut.
By the late 1890s, Coca-Cola was one of America's most popular fountain drinks. With another Atlanta pharmacist, Asa Griggs Candler, at the helm, the Coca-Cola Company increased syrup sales by over 4000% between 1890 and 1900. Advertising, was an important factor in Pemberton and Candler's success and by the turn of the century, the drink was sold across the United States and Canada. Around the same time, the company began selling syrup to independent bottling companies licensed to sell the drink. Even today, the US soft drink industry is organized on this principle.
Until the 1960s, both small town and big city dwellers enjoyed carbonated beverages at the local soda fountain or ice cream shop. Often housed in the drug store, the soda fountain counter served as a meeting place for people of all ages. Often combined with lunch counters, the soda fountain declined in popularity as commercial ice cream, bottled soft drinks, and fast food restaurants became popular.
On April 23, 1985, the trade secret "New Coke" formula was released. Today, products of the Coca Cola Company are consumed at the rate of more than one billion drinks per day.
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Cornerstone Collectibles
Rockwood, TN 37854
products. On this page, we feature our Coke Collectibles, Coca Cola Collectibles. We offer a nice selection of usable, collectible products in that wonderful nostalgic Coca Cola style.
