August 2008
by Jerry McCoy
Last month I was working in my front yard when Nick Yonkos, my eight year old neighbor from one block over, stopped by while walking with his mother, little sister, and dog. Nick, who turns nine this month (Happy Birthday Nick!) told me that landscapers working in their back yard found an old Coca-Cola bottle. I immediately asked him, "Is it imprinted 'Silver Spring, MD' on the bottom?" Nick didn't know and off he went to retrieve the bottle.
by Jerry McCoy
Last month I was working in my front yard when Nick Yonkos, my eight year old neighbor from one block over, stopped by while walking with his mother, little sister, and dog. Nick, who turns nine this month (Happy Birthday Nick!) told me that landscapers working in their back yard found an old Coca-Cola bottle. I immediately asked him, "Is it imprinted 'Silver Spring, MD' on the bottom?" Nick didn't know and off he went to retrieve the bottle.
Why would a Coca-Cola bottle have Silver Spring, MD marked on the bottom? For nearly three decades residents in the vicinity of downtown Silver Spring knew that when they reached for a bottle of the "Real Thing" it most likely came from their neighborhood Coca-Cola Bottling Works, located at 1110 East West Highway. Opened in 1942, the plant remained in operation until 1968 when it relocated to 1710 Elton Road where it remains today.
Silver Spring's Coca-Cola Bottling Works as it appeared in the early 1990s. Photo by Judy Reardon
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