Post by Volktales on Jan 1, 2021 22:36:32 GMT -8
Mmm, nothing like an ice-cold Coke to celebrate the New Year...
Not just any Coke however. You have to drink it from the perfect container. And you can't get better then the real thing. A genuine 1955 bottle pre-chilled in the fridge seemed just right. Why would I do something like this? Earlier this week I had one of those epic dreams where you remember every detail and wished it would be true. I was walking in my neighbourhood on a beautiful sunny day drinking an ice cold Coke from this very bottle. Slowly the years melted away, and soon it really was 1955. Nice open spaces, no ugly modern cars, slower pace of life. No nasty global pandemics either. Didn't really want to wake up...
So why this particular bottle. Approximately 40 years ago, I spotted it in the muck in our local stream bed, in a section that people seldom visited. It was black with goo inside, but my Mom cleaned it with some kind of powerful concoction and it turned out it was actually shiny green glass. Been on my shelf ever since, and the time seemed right to put it back to good use. Did some research and things got weird. This was actually an American Coke bottle produced at the Maywood Glass Company in good old Compton California in 1955, and intended for the San Francisco market. How did it get up here in that era to end up in a stream??? I actually have a second old bottle, a plain non-tinted one. I thought it was a lot newer, but turned out to be a Canadian Market Coke from 1938. My friend Terry loves Coke so much, that he would take it intravenously if he could. He tried the earlier bottle and stated it was strange that the first person took a swig from that same bottle 82 years earlier. Mind you who knows how many times that bottle was sent back to the bottler and refilled over the years...
And one more thing to think about. Why are we all fatter nowadays than the '50's? These vintage Coke bottles were the standard size of their era at 5 oz. Today's 355 ml standard cans are 12 oz. Is it any wonder then??? Still I think I need another soon... Yum!
Not just any Coke however. You have to drink it from the perfect container. And you can't get better then the real thing. A genuine 1955 bottle pre-chilled in the fridge seemed just right. Why would I do something like this? Earlier this week I had one of those epic dreams where you remember every detail and wished it would be true. I was walking in my neighbourhood on a beautiful sunny day drinking an ice cold Coke from this very bottle. Slowly the years melted away, and soon it really was 1955. Nice open spaces, no ugly modern cars, slower pace of life. No nasty global pandemics either. Didn't really want to wake up...
So why this particular bottle. Approximately 40 years ago, I spotted it in the muck in our local stream bed, in a section that people seldom visited. It was black with goo inside, but my Mom cleaned it with some kind of powerful concoction and it turned out it was actually shiny green glass. Been on my shelf ever since, and the time seemed right to put it back to good use. Did some research and things got weird. This was actually an American Coke bottle produced at the Maywood Glass Company in good old Compton California in 1955, and intended for the San Francisco market. How did it get up here in that era to end up in a stream??? I actually have a second old bottle, a plain non-tinted one. I thought it was a lot newer, but turned out to be a Canadian Market Coke from 1938. My friend Terry loves Coke so much, that he would take it intravenously if he could. He tried the earlier bottle and stated it was strange that the first person took a swig from that same bottle 82 years earlier. Mind you who knows how many times that bottle was sent back to the bottler and refilled over the years...
And one more thing to think about. Why are we all fatter nowadays than the '50's? These vintage Coke bottles were the standard size of their era at 5 oz. Today's 355 ml standard cans are 12 oz. Is it any wonder then??? Still I think I need another soon... Yum!
