UNUSUAL! Strange! In Searcy AR! Coke mailbox!! Betcha never saw one!!!

Hi Barbara! That Coca-Cola mailbox holder is certainly one of the most unique things I've seen in a while! It’s a fun, perfect example of the interesting local details you find when you explore a town like Searcy. Thanks for taking the time to stop and investigate whether the bottles were glass—that dedication is a real treat for your readers!

I bet the glass bottle on the side of the actual mail box is the flag. Did it move?

How cool!

I bet the idea came from the fact that Searcy once had a Coca Cola bottling plant and the mailbox is to commerate that!

Hear is an excerpt from SearcyYesterYear written by Tom Pry:

Tom Pry

I have some interesting memories of that Coke® plant. It was fascinating to just stand there and watch those bottles rolling through the small plant on Arch Street, just off the Square, through the big plate glass window.

My strongest memory of Coca-Cola, though, was of the bottles, not the plant. Young people today are, for the most part, not aware of this but, for many years, when the glass plant made up an order of bottles for a plant, the city name and state were molded into the bottom of the bottle.

So, as young men will do, we’d all throw a nickel or quarter into a pot, and then each buy a Coke. The guy with the bottle that came from farthest away got the pot. It was remarkable how some of those bottles would travel: Los Angeles, New York, Maine, Boston … a geography lesson with gas.

Cute. I listed a house once whose owners were avid collectors of Coca-Cola memorabilia. Their home was full of stuff, but they didn't have a Coke mailbox. 

I went to an estate sale once tht had a lot of coke collecables. I bought a few glasses and mugs. Growing up, Pepsi was my soda of choice mainly because Harold Sullivan's dad was a salesman and he always had a lot in the fridge at his house. How many people you knew had sodas in the fridge in the 40's and 50's?

Here's the bottling plant in 1949, a 1936 coke can, and my coke mug.

Always. How did you like the 1888 Ad I sent you?