Coca-Cola syrup container

Coca-Cola syrup container from 1906, it was a few years after cocaine was removed from the formula, which was around 1903.

Coca-Cola syrup container 1906

Coca-Cola advertisement via birdseed

In the late 1960’s, Coca Cola spread out a huge amount of birdseed in St. Mark’s Square in the shape of their logo. It was immediately covered/consumed by 100’s of pigeons who clearly spelled out the Coca Cola logo, the aerial publicity photo was taken and it remains a very famous/infamous piece of advertising today.

Coca-Cola St Marc's square in Venice 1960s

Coca-Cola – the profit line

The profit line 1959

It’s the bottler of Los Angeles announcement in the newspaper with a wholesale price list.
Bar-b and Bubble-up brands also belongs to Coca-Cola.

Ice cold Coca-Cola for 7ct

This newspaper ad from 1951 years is really weird, someone was selling ice cold Coca-Cola for 7 cents and getting 2 cents more than the rest of the country.

Newspaper ad from 1951, Coca-Cola for 7 cents

Maybe this somehow related to these ads from 1947 and 1949, where was 2 cents wartime tax included or maybe not…

1947 Coca Cola advertisement. Illustrated in vibrant color. Includes 2¢ wartime tax special pricing.

1949 Coca Cola advertisement. Illustrated in vivid color at the seaside with an ice cooler below. Price still included the 2¢ wartime tax.

Coca-Cola ads by Gil Elvgren

Gil Elvgren – a student of Haddon Sundblom, Elvgren is perhaps best known for drawing and painting pin-up girls. His style was so similar to Sundblom’s that he could finish paintings that his mentor had started. Working with Sundblom Gil Elvgren contributed to various Coca-Cola ads himself.
The first advertising artwork for Coca-Cola that Elvgren worked on was in 1939. It is a scene of a pilot and a flight attendant in an airport snack bar having a Coca-Cola with a plane flying past the window behind them.

"Take of... refreshed" 1939 by Gil Elvgren

"The Pause That Refreshes" 1939 by Gil Elvgren

"Home refreshment" 1944 by Gil Elvgren

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Drug store with Coca-Cola signs 1920

Nice old photo of drug store with Coca-Cola signs from 1920

Coca-Cola delivery trucks 1930 – 1940s

Coca-Cola Fountain Car, 1930's

Coca Cola Truck 1930's 2 Ladies with Handy 6 pack

Coca Cola Truck 1930's Featuring the Handy 6 Pack

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Coca-Cola Santa Claus 1950 – 1964

Coca-Cola: for Santa 1950

The Coca-Cola Santa Claus artwork from 1951 shows Santa reading a list of good boys and girls; there is no list of bad children.

Coca-Cola for sparkling holidays 1953

Coca-Cola Santa Claus 1931 – 1949

Although many credit our modern day Santa to Thomas Nast, Santa’s jolly look all started in 1931 with Haddon Sundblom and Coca-Cola.
Legendary illustrator Haddon Sundblom created the rosy-cheeked figure – today’s traditionally accepted appearance of the jolly old elf – in 1931 for a Coke holiday advertising campaign. Since that time, the Coca-Cola Santa has become one of the most beloved cultural icons and an anticipated part of holiday tradition.

My hat's off to the pause that refreshes 1931

It will refresh you too 1932

Away with a tired thirsty face 1933

Coca-Cola advertising clock Circa 1893

Coca-Cola advertising clock Circa 1893

Coca-Cola began advertising its products on clocks in 1893, when such novelty advertisements were increasingly common.
Coke would distribute branded clocks to sellers who bought and sold at least 100 gallons of Coca-Cola syrup per year. The first Coca-Cola clocks were made by the Baird Clock Company of Plattsburgh, New York, and had big, round faces with Roman numerals.
At $2.75 each, clocks were relatively expensive to produce, but Coca-Cola made the investment knowing that, because of their usefulness, advertising clocks would stay on display in a store long after posters or other items had been discarded.