Real Coke Bottles Have Curves

No product packaging has had more of an iconic shape than that of the curvaceous Coca-Cola glass bottle, which this month celebrates its 90th anniversary of being placed on store shelves the world over. The Coca-Cola "contour" bottle, as Coke snobs are wont to call it, was originally patented on Nov. 16, 1915, but wasn't available to customers at retail until a year later. Today, you might have to dig a little harder to find a true glass contour bottle on retail shelves, as most convenience, supermarket and drugstores have opted to switch their stocks to the less-fragile aluminum can and plastic bottle containers. The dedicated Coca-Cola connoiseur, however, knows of course that there's nothing better than drinking an ice-cold cola directly from its original curvy glass container. (I still have the unopened, un-consumed contour Coke I purchased in the eighth grade at our class fieldtrip to Atlanta's World of Coca-Cola Museum, and hope to soon add a new model next year when the remodeled museum opens downtown.) I know, I'm super cool. Betcha wish you had one...

--Alison Embrey Medina

Comments

[Chris]

There is nothing like drinking a cold pop from a glass bottle.
The old Mountain Dew Bottle with the Hillbilly running with a gun will never be seen again, but sure brings back the memories.