If your a coca cola coke collector or just like to reminisce about the good ole' days then these vintage coca cola prints and advertisements are sure to bring back some really good memories. Most of these were before my time but I still love to look at them and try to think what the times were like when these vintage coke ads were seen all over the insides of magazines store fronts garages and more. Take a look and see if you remember any of them. Tell us what memories they bring back for you.
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Here is our Gallery of Vintage Coca Cola Posters Prints and Advertisements
The prototype Coca-Cola recipe was formulated at the Eagle Drug and Chemical Company, a drugstore in Columbus, Georgia, by John Pemberton, originally as a coca wine called Pemberton's French Wine Coca. He may have been inspired by the formidable success of Vin Mariani, a European coca wine.
In 1886, when Atlanta and Fulton County passed prohibition legislation, Pemberton responded by developing Coca-Cola, essentially a non-alcoholic version of French Wine Coca. The first sales were at Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 8, 1886. It was initially sold as a patent medicine for five cents a glass at soda fountains, which were popular in the United States at the time due to the belief that carbonated water was good for the health.
Pemberton claimed Coca-Cola cured many diseases, including morphine addiction, dyspepsia, neurasthenia, headache, and impotence. Pemberton ran the first Coca Cola advertisement on May 29 1886 in the Atlanta Journal.
For more information on Coca Cola and all the history that goes behind these advertisements, visit The Cocal Cola Page on wikipedia.
