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Article: 'Coke is it' for collectors: Coca-Cola day at Chattanooga Market draws enthusiasts.
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- Chattanooga Times/Free Press (Chattanooga, TN)
- Article date:
- July 24, 2006
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Byline: Mike O'Neal
Jul. 24--Crowds came Sunday to the Chattanooga Market for tomatoes, art glass, salsa and "The Real Thing." Bottled Up, the market's second annual Coca-Cola memorabilia show, offered serious collectors and the merely curious all things Coke. Trays, bottles, buttons and pins were just a few of the more common items displayed for sale or brought for appraisals similar to those made on the PBS program "Antiques Roadshow." "I'm a bottle collector," said Chuck Lee, 34, of East Brainerd, while holding a mid-1960s nonreturnable bottle with "Mountain Dew it'll tickle your innards" molded in its green glass walls. "I've got thousands of ...