COKE CLOCK Coca Cola old car & Billboard Rt 66 gas pump

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Description: COKE CLOCK Coca Cola old car & road side coke Billboard Route 66 sign, gas pump and gas station.. ~ NO RESERVE ~ USA shipping 6.00 U S mail.. with delivery confirmation. (Priority Mail $8.10) Shipping to Canada and overseas for actual USPS shipping charges.Local pick-up to save all shipping charges is encourged. No handling charges in any of my auctions.. ever! Offered a working coke advertising clock. Measures about 22 inches long and a foot tall. Clock is battery operated (1 AA battery) it keeps good time. It's dated 1990. No problems.. no cracks, chips or damage of any kind. This cute clock is designed to hang on a wall or sit on a shelf. It's also USA made. SEE PICS >>>>>>>> I REALLY prefer Paypal payments.. but also accept a promptly sent money order. Payment is due in seven days or LESS after the auction ends. Please email me with questions before bidding, ALL sales are darn near final but of course exceptions are made when needed. I ship twice a week.. sometimes more often.. usually it's on Wednesday and Saturdays. Winning bidder please respond in THREE days or LESS. Will insure at winning bidders expense when requested.John Pemberton was the inventor of Coca Cola 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. Birth of Coca Cola 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 expanses, 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. Asa Candler In 1887, another Atlanta pharmacist and businessman, Asa Candler bought the formula for Coca Cola from inventor John Pemberton for $2,300. By the late 1890s, Coca Cola was one of America's most popular fountain drinks, largely due to Candler's aggressive marketing of the product. With Asa Candler, now at the helm, the Coca Cola Company increased syrup sales by over 4000% between 1890 and 1900. Advertising was an important factor in John Pemberton and Asa 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. Death of the Soda Fountain - Rise of the Bottling Industry Until the 1960s, both small town and big city dwellers enjoyed carbonated beverages at the local soda fountain or ice cream saloon. 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. New Coke 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. In 1969, The Coca Cola Company and its advertising agency, McCann-Erickson, ended their popular "Things Go Better With Coke" campaign, replacing it with a campaign that centered on the slogan "It's the Real Thing." Beginning with a hit song, the new campaign featured what proved to be one of the most popular ads ever created. I'd Like to Buy The World a Coke The song "I'd Like to... read more

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