COCA-COLA - Life in America
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There's nothing that beats an ice cold glass bottle of Coca-Cola. Really though, any soda is better in a glass bottle.
My dad, God rest him, was a coke fanatic from beginning to end.
My Grandfather worked for Coca-Cola. He started as a delivery driver ( back then you had to get your own customers) worked his way up to head of special events. He was selected to be the next senior VP of the Midwest division but passed away very suddenly before he started his new position. This was 1968 in Detroit.
I remember back in the 60’s riding my bike and stopping to pick up bottles from the ditch and returning them for the deposit. The Coke bottles always had the name of the city where it was originally bottled. A treat for us was a Coke float with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and Coke poured over it.
Speaking of the float? I pack the mug full of ice cream and pour a bottle of Orange Crush which i still drink today.
Is the Coca-Cola float any good? I've had root beer floats and Big Red floats, but never Coca-Cola floats.
During summer, my mom and sometimes my aunt would ask me to run to the local store for an RC Cola because it was cheaper than a Coke, and a bag of potato chips. Mind you this began when I was 5 years old. My reward usually was a nickel of which I used to buy 5 pieces of candy or gum. This was in 1963.1966.
Oh me too. I was born in 58 and there wasn't anything better than getting a bag of penny candy. My mom would send us to get a 6 pack of RC Cola, then later she switched to the RC with a twist ?
Been a while now. Carrying that 6 pack home was brutal though. My favorite penny candy choices were sixlets, malted milk balls, bit-o-honey.
Can you believe a candy bar today is over $1.00 ? How fortunate we were to be part of "the good old days". : )
@@DEEDEEGARRETT1 Nothing stays the same. We grew up in a totally different America and world for that matter. I would never send a 5-year-old to the store alone today. But back then, there was no fear of anything happening to a kid.
I hope you took back the bottles for the $.03 deposit.
@@choward5430 there was...people didn't know. I would never send a 5 year old, and my mother would never have sent me. I was 5 in 1959
@@floralbouquets My mother sent us to the store with no fear. And we lived in the inner city. But also my friend's parents had no concerns. We played outside all day with no supervision.
I know that fountain Cokes are a distant memory, but they were always my favorite. Woolworth's lunch counter, a grilled cheese sandwich and a Coke. Boy, oh boy. That was living!
We'll get them back, the Retro Decade Revival Project is gonna bring back the good things from the past.
@@reneastle8447 Now if they could only bring back Woolworths, Kresge's and W.T. Grant!
@@stanleycostello9610 We'll get them back for sure with our retro restoration campaigns.
I loved Woolworths breakfast. As far as I'm concerned, nobody did it better.
@@mikehughes4969 I was a waitress at a Woolworths long ago. They did serve good food.
Coco Cola was the dominant soft drink in our household when i was a kid ( 60s/70s ). On grocery shopping day we returned the bottles to the store for the deposit and got more Coca Cola. ⛄
My uncle owned a small town gas station many years ago and he had a 50s Coke machine that only cost a dime per bottle. Those were some great memories.
@@mikeywestside8509 I love those 50s and 60s style soda machines. ✌
He also had a vintage 7UP machine from the late sixties.
Yeah, funny you should mention. In that time a friend of mine and I would pick coke bottles up from the roadsides and drainage ditches, and then return them to make some pocket change money. We were the ultimate in "Green" and didn't even know it.
@@mikeywestside8509 ….those machines were half the fun.
RC Cola is my favorite. I'm 70 years old. I would put Planters peanuts in the bottle of RC, man was that ever good on a hot summers day. With a couple of moon pies. It doesn't get better than that.
Normally I avoid soft drinks but every great once in a while, there is nothing like Coca Cola over ice to slay thirst on a hot day
Oh yes it has to be over ice to get a really good burn going down :-)
I gotta agree altho I think it's the placebo effect working on me.
Rum helps.
Rum and Coke. My favorite but can't drink it any more
@@brett4264 it is actually invigorating to me, and that is saying ALOT as I've had chronic fatigue for years - love how Coca-Cola clears away the fog along with the unyielding inertia. love it! ; )
I remember collecting coke bottles all over the small town we lived in… a wagon and we would find dirty bottles. The store would not accept them if they were not clean. So I was living “green” before we knew what that meant🤣think about , we cleaned up the neighborhood, washed the bottles (hence learning a work ethic) and made a little spending money 💰. Aww the good ole days
Yeah, I got 2 cents back for each bottle and 5 cents for the large ones which I'd spend on candy or caps for my cap gun. A Nickle had real buying power in those days.
I wear eye glasses that are so thick that they must’ve been made using Coke bottles? 🤓🥸🧐😎
I haven't had soda in about 20 years, but when I did drink it, I would have said Coke was superior to Pepsi, which I found too sweet. I wouldn't drink either now, but I always enjoyed cherry-vanilla Cokes when I visited my local 1940s themed restaurant growing up. One shot of grenadine, one shot of vanilla. Good stuff to a kid! I still love those old 1940s Coca-Cola art advertisements, though. They're beautiful!
I am 64 years old, and I still like Coca-Cola 👍. I remember my very first mixed drink 🍸and it was Rum and Coke, that was in 1975. I even remember the Andrew Sisters, and came with a song titled, Rum and Coca-Cola. And to this very day I still drink Coca-Cola Products.
These days, I generally only go for the Mexican Coke. The real sugar & glass bottle makes all the taste difference!
@Dapper Canuck Just bought one, at the supermarket & it still lists cane sugar in the ingredients. Doesn't taste any different, either.
Thanks for this! I grew up in middle GA in the 60's and our afternoon treat was the 6 oz. bottle of Coca Cola, especially in the summer. I was a fan my entire youth and into my 30's but have cut back a bit these days. My father always called it "Co Coler" and he drank it with his bourbon back in the 60's and 70's. We hardly ever had any other soft drink in the house. It is still my cola of choice if I am going to have one. Lately, I have chosen the "mexican" variety that is made with cane sugar as it was when I grew up. When the "I'd like to buy the world a Coke" commercial aired I would get goose bumps every time I heard it. I do think it's amazing about their brand recognition. Who could have guessed, other than Asa Candler.
As far as I can recall, I have been a loyal Coca-Cola drinker, but my love skyrocketed when Cherry Coke came out in the 80's.
Cherry Coke makes a great ice cream float!
@@madamesalamander16Really? I ought to try that sometime!
Coke is and will always be # 1 in my humble opinion.
Our dad was a coke drinker, so that is what was in the house and what we grew up on -- ice cold, straight out of the bottle, over ice. Delicious!! Over the years I've tried to break the habit, but I always come back to it. It's just too good!
I was ten when the ad showing all those people singing about Coke came out. You couldn't help but sing along every time it aired.
Growing up; my neighbor had been in the Service and traveled all over the world. He collected Coke bottles from over 100 bottlers… I’ve always been a Coke fan
When I lived in Mexico for many years , I started drinking Coke, with sugar, and found it was one of
my favorite things. Many times while eating street tacos off the carts , we always washed it down with a Coke.
With a squeeze of lime!! You know you have been there a long time when you drink Coke in the morning.
Always my favorite. A huge part of my childhood fun, equally as important to me as swimming, amusement parks, going to the movies, and skating was. Helped to make every Christmas magical.
Really enjoy these little snippets of history look forward each week to watch new episodes.
I'm a part of the Pepsi Generation.
I live in Terre Haute, IN. where the Coke bottle was designed. The company and their building are long gone, but there is a plaque in the location, proclaiming the birthplace of the bottle.
It's also a great mixer for bourbon. I'm having some as I type this. 👍
As a kid back in the 50s I remember going to the pharmacy to get a fountain Coke…..in a paper cup the “soda jerk” would put in a small injection of the syrup, then the next step was to add the carbonated water….all for 5 cents…..put in a straw and it was Heaven…..
Love the Coca Cola Santa 🎄❄️
My favorite drink!!! Thanks ever so much!!!
Born in 1956, I grew up on Coke. I will drink Pepsi if I have no other option as I think it is too sweet tasting. RC Cola is a good second to Coka-Cola. If you drink a RC then you have to eat a Moon Pie along with it ;-)
Great video loved the detailed history of Coca Cola and salesmen from Atlanta GA made many Floridians millionaires when they sold stock for $10 or $20 a share which was a lot in the early 1900’s and there is a neighborhood northern FL. Millionaire row! Kudos to this wonderful video of many great memories I have visiting my grandparents during the summers early 70’s where they had little bottles in their fridge waiting for me to enjoy! Miss the old glass 1 littler bottles! Just as good as your RC vlog. I could be off a little on the value of the stock but just from memory from a 60 mins segment I watched on TV
My mom bought what ever was on sale between Coca-Cola and Pepsi but my sister and I preferred Coke. Now having had to watch the amount of sugar I consume over the last decade I've switched to Coke Zero.
that's my choice as well.
COKE ZERO is pretty good tasting to me..
Yeah, Coke Zero is close to the taste of the regular. Sadly due to a tight budget I drink Sams Cola now but even that is better than Pepsi ;-)
@@marknesselhaus4376 Only, useless, drug addicts, like you, would spread FAKE NEWS, about a soft drink, you should be ashamed of yourself.
@@saminaneen I said close to, also means not as good ;-) Zero does take time to adjust to and Sams is better than Pepsi imo :-)
My absolute favorite drink and must have for a few decades. Can't live without it. Lol
1 of the original & most iconic soda pops world. It's amazing no matter what country you drink it from it has it's original flavor & you collect each countries cola container as a souvenir.
Whenever my family went home to WVa for summer vacation, it was either Pepsi at Papaw's house or Double Cola at Grandpa's house.
This is what i like about you tube and Google of having shows like recollection road/life in america
We are definitely Coke drinkers - that is literally all he drinks. And remember- no one orders a rum and Pepsi! ❤️😊☀️
Coke has been my number one drink since I was a kid. I am now 64. I don’t care for Pepsi. If I go to a restaurant that only serves Pepsi I will drink water. I can tell you most of the restaurants in our city that serve Coke versus Pepsi. My favorite choice of Coke is fountain style like at McDonald’s. My family and grandkids know I go for my daily soda run. If I have a Coke each day I am in bliss.
Same here I only drink Coke no Pepsi for me. I don’t buy it by the bottle it has to be fountain style, I don’t have it every day but when I do it’s a real treat.
@@julenepegher6999 glass bottled coke is really good….. not the plastic ones.
Coke all the way! My grandmother and dad are lovers of Coca-Cola. My grandma used to have an entire Coke collection such as tin signs, boxes, vintage advertisements, bottles and of course, the drink itself. Now I'm doing the same thing. Coca-Cola TRULY is the american soda fountain drink.❤
Coca Cola has always been better than Pepsi except for the "New Coke" fiasco.
Oh, Lord... I remember that debacle!
So, in your opinion, everybody's preferences and tastes are exactly the same?
@@stevenreynolds2327 No, but their need to mellow the Hell out sure is.
TRue :)
@@stevenreynolds2327 ,
I agree with John Linde. And you, apparently, could use a laxative more than a Coca Cola.
Thank goodness someone brought Coke bottles in Mexico to American markets; real sugar used just like in the olden days! All hail "Mexi-Coke"!!!
I was never much of a soda fan growing up, but my parents loved Coke. My mom would send us to the corner store for a bottle on occasion and I remember one time buying a bottle of Pepsi as it all seemed the same to me! She immediately sent me back to the store! I was so embarrassed! Thankfully the clerk allowed me to make the exchange without a word! Course now as an adult I realize he probably had multiple kids making soda runs for their parents, and years of exchanges.😆
My grandma used to work at a Coca Cola bottling plant in Michigan when I was a kid in the 60’s! I used to be given “sips” of it, bec I was too young to drink a whole bottle by myself! Today at 61, I still drink Coke (I’ve only had Pepsi once in my life lol)!
Not a bad telling of it's history, however I like how they completely passed over the fact it was originally so popular thanks to the cocaine content, and also no mention of the "New Coke" flop of the 80's. Still, very well done.
Cocaine ?? 😂😂
Yes it contained cocaine until 1929 when it was finally removed completely
@@alaskan6384 I heard it had cocaine in it all the way til
1970.
@@wilnewman5372 I think 1929 is correct.
For some reason, this channel always keeps its videos too short. Maybe it helps viewership?
Ah!! 1970. Cherry cokes, made with coke syrup, soda water and cherry syrup at a local burger place. With a basket of fries and lots of ketchup. I think the coke was 25 cents. What a great time we had as kids in a small town.
@Suzanne McKenzie. Oh yes, walking home from high school, late 60s, stopped at a soda fountain and had my first fountain vanilla coke. Vanilla syrup, soda and coke syrup, stirred up.OMG pure heaven, so good. Wish I could go back to that.
@@Donna-zc9ii Amen. It was a wonderful time to be young. We were blessed
“Rum and Coca Cola” was a pop song about world war 2
Everybody mentions the New Coke debacle in 1985, but there had already been a change to the formula in 1980, when HFCS was added as the sweetener. If you buy a bottle of Mexican Coca Cola, which is made with sugar, the taste is so much better. IMO, of course.
Totally agree.
Growing up in the south we referred to every soft drink as coke. I remember ordering many grape cokes growing up lol. I avoid soft drinks now, but I’m always drawn to anything with the Coca-Cola logo on it.
I'm a Coke Zero drinker, I love the stuff !!! ❤️
Great video, I have been drinkiing Coke all my life 😀
My 93 year old grandmother drinks 2-3 cokes a day.
My grandmother loved it too. Lived to be 87. Also smoked! And ate hot dogs. I'm not advocating that as a lifestyle, but somehow for her, it worked!
My favorite drink of them all.
They have an old soda fountain where I live. It’s a pharmacy now, but they kept the soda fountain. It’s a pretty neat place to visit.
My grandparents were young adults when they'd go to the drug store, sit at the bar, and have a Coke. But they did not ask for "the pause that refreshes," and instead asked for "a shot in the arm."
Coca. Cola is my most favorite of all times I have been drinking it since I was a baby in 1951. Keep up the good work your doing a great job. I drink it everyday because it is. GOOOD Keep. UP. The good work for a very long time❤️👼🙁😇
I would love to buy you a cola ❤️😘
It is sad they went WOKE. Private label works for me and it is a way better deal.
Funny you posted this today as a recall was issued on Coca Cola today.
The Coke ad was later made into a popular song. Someone took the ad and removed the references to Coke but retained the melody.
There was a corner store near where I lived they sold coke in the glass bottle but they also had a fountain where they would make a cherry coke , a vanilla coke and of course a coke float.,..and if you were wanting....what we called a swamp.....a blend of coke , root beer and orange syrup.....
Coca-Cola is the best and unique!!! Their ads are the best, the flavor (especially in glass bottles), the symbol. I love it. Pepsi tastes like medicine of the 30´s.
I went to the coca-cola factory in Atlanta when I was a kid and then went back there as an adult and I really enjoyed it.
In “Come Together,” they mentioned Coca-Cola.
Fact: John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote the song, "Come Together." The Beatles originally sang that song. Later Aerosmith, and other artists have their versions afterwards.
My favorite Coke add is the one where Mean Joe Greene gives the kid his jersey (Have a Coke and a smile days). I always preferred Pepsi but that's me.
Troy Polamalu th-cam.com/video/sjII6F-nJBQ/w-d-xo.html parodied that Mean Joe Greene ad for Coke Zero. Lol yes I prefer Pepsi, too.
@@noble604 Too funny!!!! 😂😂I missed that one but I don't watch a lot of TV. It wouldn't have worked with a player from another team and I say that as a Lions fan. Well played!
Absolutely Coca-Cola. My grandparents used to have the local bottler bring her full bottles as we drank all they had while mowing grass in the 70's and 80's. Never looked back. Wife was raised in a Pepsi household. I have a bottle of Coke beside me now! Will always be the real thing!!
When I got married in 1990 and bought a house my first home renovation was to design my kitchen around a Coca Cola theme, complete with coca cola red walls. It has always been the logo and the vintage advertising that I loved, and still do, though after 30 years, I've moved on to a much more conventional kitchen, lol.
Coke with ice was my favorite summer drink into my 30s. Usually associated with chips.
It actually took me months to ween myself off it and get used to water as a replacement.
Now it’s a very occasional treat.
I gave up coke , all pop for lent one year. Ever since then I can’t drink a full bottle like I used to. I drink water and iced tea all the time with pop being an occasional treat.
Soda is hell for health. Is really bad.
Coke is fine. If I can't have a Dr. Pepper, I'll take a Coke. But I prefer Dr. Pepper.
loved coke before the new coke messed it up .. even when they went back it didn't taste like the coke of the 60s and 70s
when they went back they renamed it coca cola classic
I feel sorry for the Pemberton family they never benefited from its success.
The Dottie West coke commercial was very popular as well and led to her hit country sunshine
I remember the commercial where the Coke delivery driver, stop to drink a Pepsi. :)
I just simply like Cola period, no matter the brand.
Coca Cola is like the original 501 button fly Levi Jeans..
& Pepsi is like the original" W" stitched Wrangker rodeo Jeans
Love these soda videos. I like both Coke and Pepsi, but I still hate that the Coke company discontinued Tab soda.
Woke-a-cola, no thanks, I’ll stick Dr.Pepper, I'm a Texan after all, we don't do “woke” ‘round these parts.
As much as I've always loved Coca Cola, I've been buying Dr. Pepper for my soda since Woca Cola started their "be less..." internal campaign. To afghanistan with them.
“That thar” is correct. I’ll stick with DP & Whataburger. We’ve been awake our entire lives, and we don’t need a soft drink maker to tell us how to think. Coke makes me burp like dying pig anyhow…window shattering stuff!
I remember the "I'd like to teach the world to sing" commercial from when I was a kid. Sometime after that the Moody Blues did a couple of "Things go better with Coke" commercials for radio, though I never knew about it at the time. I found out about them sometime in the early 2000s. At that time they had been put on some compilation albums. I like all brands of cola that are available. My favorite Coke flavor is Cherry Coke. I drank Vanilla Coke, on and off for a while, but I liked the Cherry Coke better. My 80+ year old mom loves Diet Coke.
When I was growing up in the 60s and 70s there was no cola in the house, except for Tab, which my mom drank occasionally. In fact soda of any kind was rare in our house at that time.
My all time favorite soda!
If another person says the same thing at the same time as you do, they will owe you a Coke!
McDonald’s fountain Coke or Diet Coke with ice is absolutely the best Coke taste.
Woka Cola I no longer buy.
Another slogan: The pause that refreshes.
I'm a fan of both Coke and Pepsi. I'm very thankful for the high technology age in which we lived that can Mass produce soft drinks pastries and everything else instead of having everything handmade. I'm thankful that this puts everything within the price range of everybody.
The first time I ever tasted the flavor of Coke, it was a Slurpee from 7-Eleven. It was strange and wonderful! My favorite variation of Coke is Raspberry Coke - it was only ever sold in bottles and I snapped up as many as I could every time I saw it in the supermarket. I haven't seen Raspberry Coke (or Peach Coke) for several years now. Sad.
I’ll have a hamburger , fries & a COKE
“ we have Pepsi , is that all right ? “
Certainly NOT !! Lol- 😆😆😆
Worth throwing in, Diet Coke wasn't brought in until August 9th 1982. Seems like it'd be older than that but it isn't.
Mine is Zero Sugar (with Cherry if I can find it) since the first day they sold it in the Aughts... (officially 2005, I do believe it was introduced to Puerto Rico a year later)
I remember that in the early 1950s Eddie Fisher had a 15 minute daily variety show on NBC. Sponsored by Coca Cola.
From the pause that refreshes to the real thing there is nothing better on a hot dry throat then an ice cold bottle of Coca Cola
I remember as a kid in the late 50s/early 60s being given Coca Cola syrup as a medicine when I was sick. It came in a medicine bottle from the pharmacy and always tasted so good. To this day I dont know what it was supposed to help cure. Anyone else?
Thank you !
THE COCA COLA SANTA WAS BASED ON THE GREAT THOMAS NAST VERSION.
Do you remember their sponsorship of the Charlie Brown Christmas special as well as in the other early ones as well
Sorry, I am too white to drink any coke products.
damn shots fired
@@mikeywestside8509 Only, useless, drug addicts, like you, would spread FAKE NEWS, about a soft drink, you should be ashamed of yourself.
⬆️LOL
@@mikeywestside8509 Only, useless, drug addicts, like you, would spread FAKE NEWS, about a soft drink, you should be ashamed of yourself.
⬆️LOL
Ha ha, I just watched that Coke commercial a couple of days ago.
“I’ld like to buy the world a Coke…”
When I was a boy, 70 years ago, Coke was still 5 cents a glass or bottle. I remember how upset I was when the price of a bottle increased to seven cents! And I've been a Coke man ever since!
There was nothing better in the world, than an ice cold Coke in the green bottle. Times back then were so fun , and it was the simple things in life that made life worth living. Not like today. Since the use of glass bottles has stopped I haven't had a cold Coke in years, something about drinking Coke from a plastic bottle changed the flavor and the experience. I wish we could go back to those great days again . One time in 1963, I walked six and half miles round trip to buy a six pack of bottled Coke,all the way home all I could think of was drinking and ice cold Coke. Technology is OK I guess,but plastic sure has ruined a lot of things, and yes made some things better, I guess. Have a Coke and a smile!!
I like the song It's the real thing by the fortunes.
I Loved this Video.. I am an avid vintage Coca-Cola collector.
Thank you for the video.
Its cool that a product is iconic and looks the same today as it did from the start, and not lame either. Like McDonalds, the creator missed out on the big time, while someone else knew what to with it.
Very interesting story on Coca Cola history.Thank You!.😎
I feel the same although they left out some interesting information. They often contained ingredients recognized as addictive substances, including opium and cocaine, as well as deadly elements like mercury and lead back then.
@@DEEDEEGARRETT1 Only, useless, drug addicts, like you, would spread FAKE NEWS, about a soft drink, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Don't forget that original COKE had COCAINE in it.. I would of liked to taste that Coca Cola..👍
I have a nice Coca-Cola "collection", mostly all over my kitchen and adjoining downstairs bathroom. Even the appliances and curtains are "Coke" red. However, since the company went "WOKE" during the past year, no future plans on having the product in my house are in mind. The collection will remain, but the drink and any further addition are shelved. Thanks for the memories. "Go Woke, go broke", Coke.
i remember the new coke back in '85 tasted sweeter than the original