Monroe LA - birthplace of bottled Coca-Cola and Delta
Jun 7, 19, 8:46 pm
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Monroe LA - birthplace of bottled Coca-Cola and Delta
Had a great experience visiting Monroe last week and stumbled upon something I didn’t know. Long story short there was a family that bottled coke for the first time who ALSO started delta airlines. And none of it was originally in Atlanta.
The man man was serving soft drinks and coke at a fountain in Vicksburg and decided to start putting Coca-Cola in bottles. This was without coca colas permission so he was technically first. Chattanooga was the first COCA-COLA bottling company. Never knew there were two claims to that fame.
after they had success the kids wanted to buy a plane. The dad said they could once they saved the money to do it. When they did they were doing crop dusting when someone asked them to fly them to Jackson ms from Monroe la if he paid the gas. From that trip delta was born!
The man man was serving soft drinks and coke at a fountain in Vicksburg and decided to start putting Coca-Cola in bottles. This was without coca colas permission so he was technically first. Chattanooga was the first COCA-COLA bottling company. Never knew there were two claims to that fame.
after they had success the kids wanted to buy a plane. The dad said they could once they saved the money to do it. When they did they were doing crop dusting when someone asked them to fly them to Jackson ms from Monroe la if he paid the gas. From that trip delta was born!
Jun 8, 19, 7:32 am
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This was interesting information on the start of Coca Cola bottling and the start of Delta Airlines.
If you haven't done so already, you should plan a visit to the Delta Flight Museum at the Delta Atlanta complex. Some great Delta history on display. There is also an Airliners international convention at the museum the weekend of June 20th. There will be a tremendous amount of airline/Delta memorabilia on display. It is always a fun event.
If you haven't done so already, you should plan a visit to the Delta Flight Museum at the Delta Atlanta complex. Some great Delta history on display. There is also an Airliners international convention at the museum the weekend of June 20th. There will be a tremendous amount of airline/Delta memorabilia on display. It is always a fun event.
Jun 8, 19, 7:50 am
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i believe that even after Delta moved to Atlanta they were a Louisiana corporation who had their annual meeting in Monroe until CE Woolman died and they immediately moved the incorporation to another state without the bizarre Louisiana governance system
Jun 8, 19, 8:14 am
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I knew part of this story, but not the Coke connection. The origin of the name Delta is that it was initially conceived of as providing short flights around the Mississippi Delta region.
Jun 8, 19, 11:18 am
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This was interesting information on the start of Coca Cola bottling and the start of Delta Airlines.
If you haven't done so already, you should plan a visit to the Delta Flight Museum at the Delta Atlanta complex. Some great Delta history on display. There is also an Airliners international convention at the museum the weekend of June 20th. There will be a tremendous amount of airline/Delta memorabilia on display. It is always a fun event.
If you haven't done so already, you should plan a visit to the Delta Flight Museum at the Delta Atlanta complex. Some great Delta history on display. There is also an Airliners international convention at the museum the weekend of June 20th. There will be a tremendous amount of airline/Delta memorabilia on display. It is always a fun event.
Jun 8, 19, 1:30 pm
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Jun 8, 19, 2:02 pm
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Jun 8, 19, 2:09 pm
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Now Louisiana politics are bizarre. A J Liebling in a 1950s article about Louisiana politics described it as "the westernmost of the Arab states or northernmost of the banana republics" and said the state's politics were "of an intensity and complexity that are matched, in my experience, only in the Republic of Lebanon." https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/19/u...louisiana.html
