Name/Title
Coca-Cola BottleEntry/Object ID
2017.1.6Description
Clear green bottle with contours and ridges. Glass imprinted "Coca-Cola / Trademark Registered / In U.S. Patent Office" above "60–60" on one side and "Coca-Cola / Trademark Registered / Contents 6½ FL. OZS" on the other. On the bottom it notes: "Columbia, S.C."Context
From 1952 to 1992, Columbia's Cottontown neighborhood housed a Coca-Cola Bottling Company plant at 2830 North Main Street. This facility was one of several across South Carolina, alongside locations in Greenville, Aiken, Dillon, and Rock Hill.
This style of Coca-Cola bottle is known as a "hobbleskirt" bottle, named for its nipped-in, curvaceous shape that resembles the hobble skirt dresses popular in the early 1900s. The embossed numbers on the bottle indicate its manufacturing date, 1960, and the mold used, 60. Coca-Cola ceased this dating practice in the 1980s.Made/Created
Date made
1960Place
City
Columbia, South CarolinaDimensions
Height
7-3/4 inDiameter
2-5/16 in
