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

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Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX Advantage

 

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Coco-Cola mailbox holder!

Look closely and see that a coke is also on the mailbox!  I had to drive by again, stop the car, and go feel of the coke/post to see if it was made of glass!  It wasn't. (Now I need to go back and feel of the small one attached to the mailbox  and see if it is glass with half of it on each side of the box. I forgot to feel of it.)  The big one was some kind of metal and the red strip had to have been separately made.  Upon that last trip I found the glass coke half bottle was only on one side of the mailbox.  I'll bet once there was the other half coke bottle on the other side.

I think we have lots and lots of Coke collectors who might covet this thing.

Perhaps there will be an estate sale there before long.

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Dennis Neal
Exp Realty of Southern California, Inc. - Big Bear Lake, CA
Your Home Sold in 21 Days or We Sell It For Free

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!

Oct 30, 2025 12:42 PM
Barbara S. Duncan

Thanks!  It is unique!!

Oct 30, 2025 02:05 PM
Kat Palmiotti
eXp Commercial, Referral Divison - Kalispell, MT
Helping your Montana dreams take root

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

 

How cool!

Oct 31, 2025 05:14 AM
Barbara S. Duncan

Kat!  I didn't check that!  Gotta go back now and check it out!

I went back!!  Yes, it raises for the flag!! Good thinking on your part!

Oct 31, 2025 08:51 AM
Don Thompson
Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

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.

Oct 31, 2025 08:58 AM
Barbara S. Duncan

I just found out today that they are going to have an estate sale and the house is full of coke collectibles!  And, Don, I have a few of those Coke bottles made in Searcy.  Tom Pry's  memories were very intersting.  Thanks for including them.

Oct 31, 2025 02:10 PM
Carol Williams
Although I'm retired, I love sharing my knowledge and learning from other real estate industry professionals. - Wenatchee, WA
Author, Golfer, Retired Broker, Wenatchee, WA

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. 

Oct 31, 2025 09:23 AM
Barbara S. Duncan

This house is also full of coke collectibles!!

Oct 31, 2025 02:11 PM
Don Thompson
Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

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.

Oct 31, 2025 03:50 PM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

What great pictures!  I may need to do a new blog using them.  Would that be ok?

Nov 01, 2025 06:49 AM
Don Thompson
Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

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

Nov 01, 2025 10:19 AM
Barbara S. Duncan

I loved it!

Nov 02, 2025 07:50 AM