This is RTS for Tuesday, June 26, 2007
COKE GAME: More today on that question about Bradford’s Coke
bottling plant.
Corky Galloway writes, “The Coca-Cola bottles of an earlier era
having the name (location) of the bottling plant on their bottoms …
Bottles were made in only a few manufacturing locations, but
manufactured bottles were embossed for the bottlers and shipped to
the plants for filling.”
“As a college student in the early ’50s, my friends and I would
often while away whole evenings in the local poolhall.
“As closing time approached we would have a Coke drawing for a
money pot. Everyone in the establishment would kick in a dollar and
each would draw from the Coke machine a bottle; The winner of the
pot was the person with the bottle from the most distant
location.
“Once I took a sizable pot with a bottle that had originated in
Saudi Arabia. As the bottles were recoverable and refillable they
would migrate great distances.”
“I checked on this at the Coca-Cola museum in Atlanta, Ga. I am
not aware of there ever being a bottle manufacturer for Coke in the
Bradford area … If there ever was, I would be interested in the
story of the enterprise.”
HAPPY SUMMER: Neil Hoffmier gives us a picture of life
elsewhere:
“A quick ‘happy summer’ for all de po’ folk what live in BFD …
Just set a record sneezing 23 times in a row this AM (due to high
levels of palm/whatever pollen (daily ritual).
“Getting over 21 fire ant bites (from yesterday). You ain’t
lived ’til you get blistered by fire ants. Survived Hurricane
Charley couple of years ago and missed a tornado by five miles this
January. Ah, for the good life! Sorry you folk are missing the good
life.
“Anyone remember the fireworks tent every 4th across the street
from CC Brigham’s Study garage in Foster Brook? Was the best time
of summer back in the ’30s. So cheer up BFD, ya ain’t got it as bad
as some might think.”
SHOUT OUT: Fred Mackendrick writes, “Hi. I was born and raised
in Bradford, lived up Gates Hollow, moved to Ohio in 1949, raised
six children, now living in Petersburg, Ill. We, my sister Peggy
and brother also born in Bradford are going to Bradford next month
to bury our mother Shirley 97 next to our fatherðCharles at Oakhill
Cemetery. I sure miss the hills of Pa.”
