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Thursday, March 28, 2002

Birmingham Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
One of the bad things about having a Coke bottler in town was that it skewed the odds of Co-coler Poker--there was always an abundance of "Birmingham," a good many "Montgomery", but hardly ever any "Chattanooga" or "Atlanta." There was always one kid who won every time. I really think he kept an empty bottle hidden on him somewhere, like having a card up your sleeve. Anyway, Birmingham Co-Coler is 100 years old this year. It all started thusly:

"1902 Birmingham businessman Crawford T. Johnson uses $12,000 and a borrowed mule to open Birmingham's first Coca-Cola plant. It is located in a 25-by-50-foot building on 24th Street North and produced 30 cases of Coca-Cola per hour. It served 50 retailers."

Birmingham-based Coca-Cola Bottling United is now the third-largest Coke bottler in the U.S.

posted by Terry at 9:33:00 AM

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