Coca-Cola Classic Large Plastic-Bottle 1.75L - S05

In 1899, two Chattanooga lawyers, Joseph Whitehead and Benjamin Thomas traveled to Atlanta to negotiate the rights to bottle Coca-Cola. The product had been an increasingly popular soda fountain drink established a mere 13 years previously. In fountain form, Coca-Cola grew from an average of nine drinks per day sold in 1886 to being sold in every state of the US by 1900.

Thomas and Whitehead wanted to capitalize on the popularity of the drink by bottling it to be consumed outside the four walls of a soda fountain...