Wanted

Your Help Is Needed!
Do you have and/or collect Koca Nola items? Do you know
someone who has or collects Koca Nola items? Do you have
information pertaining to the Koca Nola Company and/or any
of its confirmed/suspected franchises? We are seeking:

copies of vintage advertisements;
copies of vintage photographs;
plant addresses;
names of owners;
years of operation; and
photographs of bottles.

If you have anything related to Koca Nola, please contact us as
soon as possible and help document the Koca Nola story! All
contributions will be fully credited to those who submit
information.

$100 - $100 - $100 - $100 - $100 - $100 - $100 - $100 - $100
WANTED!
Depending on condition, I will pay a MINIMUM of $100 for
embossed crown top Koca Nola soda bottles from:

ALABAMA: Camden, Headland, Samson

GEORGIA: Augusta, Bagley, Columbus, Donalsonville,
Elberton, Hartwell, Milledgeville, Newnan, Savannah,
Talbotton

KENTUCKY: Somerset

MARYLAND: Frederick

MISSISSIPPI: Crystal Springs

NEW JERSEY: Elizabeth

MISSOURI: St. Louis

NORTH CAROLINA: Fort Mountain, Gastonia, High Point,
Louisburg, Marion, Mt. Airy, New London, Old Fort

OHIO: Kenton

PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia (J. ESPOSITO, quart)

SOUTH CAROLINA: Fairfax

TENNESSEE: Gallatin, LaFollette, Maryville, New River and
South Pittsburg, Oneida

TEXAS: Waco

VIRGINIA: Bristol

WASHINGTON D.C.

$100 - $100 - $100 - $100 - $100 - $100 - $100 - $100 - $100

WANTED FOR MY KOCA NOLA COLLECTION

Hutchinson soda bottles (particularly the KOCA NOLA CO.
/ KOCA NOLA / ATLANTA, GA. with 10 panel base)
Crown top soda bottles
Embossed quart "sample" soda bottle
Paper soda bottle labels
Soda bottle crown caps
Calendars
Watch fobs
Match safes
Thermometers
Pocket mirrors
Lady's face powder boxes
Circa 1909 Extract Premium Catalog
and anything else from Koca Nola not listed above!

WANTED FOR MY PERSONAL COLLECTION

Embossed and Applied Color Label soda, milk, and druggist
bottles and related memorabilia from:

ALABAMA

Bellefonte
Bridgeport
Carpenter
Scottsboro
Stevenson

GEORGIA

Cole City

TENNESSEE

Battle Creek
Comfort
Copenhagen
Jasper
Ketchall
Monteagle
Needmore
New River
Orme
South Pittsburg
Tracy City
Whitwell

KOCA NOLA PROJECT REFERENCES

RESEARCH BY:

Bill Baab: Augusta, Georgia
Irene Baker: Huntsville, Tennessee
Charlie Barnette: Bristol, Tennessee
Charles Comolli: Elberton, Georgia
Kenneth Cornett: Rockford, Tennessee
Deb Elsasser: Kenton, Ohio
Bob & Alexander Esposito: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Harry Evans: Jasper, Tennessee
Ron Fowler: Seattle, Washington
Allen Haynes: Castalian Springs, Tennessee
Adele Heagney: St. Louis, Missouri
Robert Hookey: South Pittsburg, Tennessee
Jamie Houdeshell: Ohio
Jimmy Hubbard: Winchester, Kentucky
Muriel M. Jackson: Macon, GA
Steve Jobe: Cordelle, Georgia
Peggy Johnson: Elberton, Georgia
John Johnston: Brundidge, Alabama
Frank Kaner: Powder Springs, Georgia
Ed Kuskie: Elizabeth, Pennsylvania
Christine B. Ledbetter: Marion, NC
Reggie Lynch: Durham, North Carolina
Donnie Medlin: Louisburg, North Carolina
Glenda Milliken: Gallatin, Tennessee
Paul Morrison: Albemarle, NC
Cecil Munsey: Poway, California
Betty W. Pouncey: Montgomery, Alabama
Mrs. Ross: Gallatin, Tennessee
Becky Settle: Gallatin, Tennessee
Dennis Smith: Buffalo, New York
James Smith: Birmingham, Alabama
Corey Stock: Jacksonville, Florida
Sandy Thaxton: Kenton, Ohio
Tonya Thomas: Jellico, Tennessee
Robert Wagner: Jackson, Mississippi
Susan Wolfe: Bristol, Virginia
George Zepp: Rugby, Tennessee

BOOKS:

1906 Montgomery, Alabama City Directory
1906 Jacksonville, Florida City Directory
1910 Savannah, Georgia City Directory
1908 Somerset, Kentucky City Directory
1908-1909 Kenton, Ohio City Directory
Georgia Early Embossed Crown Top Soda Bottles by Carl
Barnett and Ken Nease
Mississippi's Antique Bottles & Jugs by James McClure
Pensacola's Soda Water Legacy 1837-1998 by Philip A.
Pfeiffer
Talbot County Georgia History, August 23, 1906
Collecting Soda Pop Bottles by Ron Fowler
Augusta On Glass by Bill Baab
The Bottler's Helper by Blumenthal Bros., 1907
A Century of Pride and Growth New London, 1891-1991
by Jeannette Nash

NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS:

The Augusta Chronicle, Augusta, Georgia: April 27, 1905,
October 28, 1907
The National Bottlers' Gazette: Feb. 5, 1909, Aug. 5, 1909
The Hardin Co. Republican, Ohio: August 8, 1910
The Headland Post, Headland, Alabama: March 16, 1909
The Bristol Herald-Courier, Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia,
April 6, 1907
The South Pittsburg Hustler, South Pittsburg, Tennessee:
May 17, 1907
The Maryville Enterprise, Maryville, Tennessee: April 11,
1907
"Matches, Match Safes and the History and Relics of Koca
Nola" by Cecil Munsey, Federation Glass Works Journal,
January 1992 (excerpts used by permission)
"Bustling Bilesville Changes to New London," Stanly (NC)
News and Press, June 10, 1980
The Macon Daily Telegraph, Macon, Georgia, January 1,
1907, March 27, 1920
The Gallatin News, Gallatin, Tennessee, April 1, 1905

OTHER:

Letter from Thomas H. Austin to Turner Drug Store in
Wilkesboro, North Carolina: http://www.lib.unc.
edu/mss/inv/m/misc (Southern Bus. Letters, Unit 72)
Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia
Pulaski County Historical Society, Somerset, Kentucky
Scott County Historical Society, Huntsville, Tennessee
Woodruff & Coca-Cola prosecuting copycat competition:
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/-slaterj/dissertation5.htm
(Dr. Jan Slater)
Keen Bottling Co. Koca Nola letterhead, April 9, 1906
Letter from Willard Keen to A. Y. Keen, April 25, 1906
(courtesy Ms. Irene Baker, Scott County Historical Soc.)
Bottlers, Brewers, & Distillers, Macon, Georgia, 1860-1960

Heads-Up Publications Charles David Head, Prop'r.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

BIMAL crown top
bottle from the
KOCA NOLA /
BOTTLING WORKS
/ Koca Nola /
GASTONIA, N.C.