Coca Cola Collectibles at the Root Family Museum

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  • Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
  • Coca Cola collectibles carry one of the best-known logos in the world, one that has become almost a shorthand for United States consumer culture.
    With every imaginable item relating to the bottling, advertising, and consumption of Coca-Cola in their collection, the Root Family Museum has one of the most historically important compilations of Coca Cola collectibles on which their family fortune was founded. Through a selection of glass bottles representing the changing trends in bottling over the decades, this exhibit chronicles the transition of the Root Family Glass Works into associated Coca-Cola, the largest independent Coca-Cola bottler in the nation. This collection includes everything Coca-Cola, from the evolution of the Coca-Cola vending machines to the science behind the construction of the Coca-Cola bottle.
    One of the most recognizable brands in the world is Coca-Cola. From the iconic design of the Coke bottle to some of the most famous advertising slogans, fans of Coke are also avid collectors of all things related to the brand.
    One of the largest private collections of unique Coca-Cola memorabilia resides just minutes from Orlando at the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach. Gifted to the museum by the very family who designed the iconic Coke bottle.
    The Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach is just 45 minutes northeast on Interstate 4 from downtown Orlando which contains Root Family Museum which features one of the largest and historically important collections of vintage Coca-Cola collectibles and memorabilia in the world. But who is the Root Family, what is their relationship with Coca-Cola, and how did this amazing collection come to reside in Daytona Beach? It is a fascinating story.
    In Terre Haute, Indiana, the Root Glass Company lead by Chapman J Root, who had a notable history in the glass industry, and as a leader in the development of semi-automatic bottle making machines, gathered his team together - composed of himself, his son William, Alexander Samuelson, Earl Dean and Clyde Edwards. Samuelson reportedly asked during the meeting, “what was Cola-Cola made of?” and Clyde and Earl, a bottle designer, were tasked to come up with a new design for Coca-Cola that would win them the business. After researching for ideas at the Emeline Fairbanks Memorial Library, they came across an illustration in the 1910 Encyclopedia Britannica of the Cacao pod with an elongated shape and distinct ribs that would serve as the inspiration.
    Earl Dean was under immense pressure to complete the concept, design, and casting of molds to produce prototypes of the bottle. Union rules dictated that at noon on a published schedule the tanks of hot molten glass at the bottle works would be emptied, known as “fire out”, in order to allow the tanks to be cleaned and repaired. If Earl missed the deadline to get casts made of his design and installed on the machinery to create the prototypes to submit to Coca-Cola, the opportunity may have been lost. With 15 minutes to spare a few bottles were cast and submitted to Coca-Cola, who chose the Root bottle to represent the new packaging for Coca-Cola. For their efforts, the Root Glass company was paid a royalty from the manufacture of the new contour Coca-Cola bottle.
    But there were changes to come. Ones that would lead the family away from Indiana, to make a new home in Central Florida.
    The Root Family Coca-Cola collection includes an invaluable history of fully restored and authentic Coca-Cola ice chests and vending machines spanning the early 1900s through the late twentieth century.
    The collection also includes restored vintage Coca-Cola sales and delivery vehicles - some that were used by Chapman Shaw Root himself, as a young employee of Associated Coke Bottlers.
    Also on display is antique bottling equipment that serves as an unmatched exhibit highlighting the technology of the early 20th century industrial age.
    This priceless bottle collection includes nearly every Coke bottle ever made.
    Some of the more irreplaceable pieces include this 19th Century Coke syrup dispenser that ushered Coca-Cola from a tonic into the soft-drink era - this stained-glass bottle rumored to be designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany and a pristine example of an original early 20th Century promotional paper kite so rare it is considered one of the holy grails for Coca-Cola aficionados.
    There are several displays containing rare examples of early to mid-twentieth century Coca-Cola advertising and promotional materials.
    But the collection’s highlight undoubtedly, are the original Coke bottle patent papers and one of only 2 remaining examples of Earl Dean’s 1915 prototype Coke bottle, one in Atlanta kept in a safe, and this one on permanent display in the Root Family Museum.
    The Orlando Guy: Episode 206
    00:00 Intro
    02:30 Lightning in a Bottle
    03:58 Time in a Bottle
    05:24 Every Empty Bottle Is Filled With Stories
    07:56 The Root Family Museum Collection

КОМЕНТАРІ • 36

  • @TheOrlandoGuy
    @TheOrlandoGuy  3 роки тому +7

    Let me know what you think of this historic Coca-Cola Collection below!

  • @NoBSEateries
    @NoBSEateries 3 роки тому +4

    What an awesome museum. We had no idea this was there. The Coca-Cola collection is great.

    • @MOASDaytona
      @MOASDaytona 2 роки тому +1

      Thank you! :) Hope you can come spend the day and explore the universe with us here at MOAS!

  • @ATJHTRAVELS
    @ATJHTRAVELS 3 роки тому +2

    Coca-Cola awesomeness sledgehammered that like button stay safe awesome and blessed shared this out

  • @SoonerGirlTravels
    @SoonerGirlTravels 3 роки тому +3

    This video made me crave a Coke. Brought back some childhood memories

  • @roccosophie6498
    @roccosophie6498 3 роки тому +3

    I have never found soda as enjoyable as I guess I'm supposed to but I can tell that none of that matters to me as much as a company as large as Coke, screaming about their hyper partisan politics to the world. I've never had use for that in the past and I have even less use for or interest that, now. I truly enjoy your other videos very much, though. Thank you OG!

  • @MOASDaytona
    @MOASDaytona 2 роки тому

    Thank you for spotlighting our Root Family Museum and its Coca-Cola® memorabilia here at the Museum of Arts & Sciences, in Daytona Beach, Florida! We look forward to your next visit.

  • @Wheels518
    @Wheels518 3 роки тому +3

    This is absolutely amazing… Out of 36 years I’ve been living on earth I never knew that that collection was there… A huge huge Coca-Cola memorabilia and Artifex Finattic here Definitely on the top of my bucket list to go do…

  • @PepperTreeVilla
    @PepperTreeVilla 3 роки тому +3

    Coke memorabilia has always fascinated Doug and me. We’ve never seen such an extensive collection in one place. I must say that I want to see this museum in person. To gaze on that first Coke bottle... Yes, I must do that.

    • @TheOrlandoGuy
      @TheOrlandoGuy  3 роки тому +3

      Yes, you must make the pilgrimage! 😀

    • @MOASDaytona
      @MOASDaytona 2 роки тому

      Please do! MOAS is open Monday-Saturday, 10am-5pm and Sundays 11am-5pm, unless otherwise posted on our website at MOAS.org. Hope to see you soon!

  • @ElpurienlaHabana
    @ElpurienlaHabana 3 роки тому +3

    What an awesome video my brother. I love it.

  • @MagicoftheMouseRadio
    @MagicoftheMouseRadio 3 роки тому +2

    All the time I spent in Daytona when my Son & Stepson went to School there, I never knew this was there.

    • @TheOrlandoGuy
      @TheOrlandoGuy  3 роки тому +3

      Ya gotta visit next time you come down!

  • @VillageFoodTours
    @VillageFoodTours 3 роки тому +2

    I am going to have to check this place out!

  • @TheMickeyBunch
    @TheMickeyBunch 3 роки тому +3

    Love this! I can't believe I live so close to this place and haven't been. I'm a huge fan of Coca Cola! Thanks for sharing this. ❤

    • @TheOrlandoGuy
      @TheOrlandoGuy  3 роки тому +2

      Glad you enjoyed it!

    • @MOASDaytona
      @MOASDaytona 2 роки тому +1

      Come visit with us! We have so many different exhibits to enjoy! Everything from Coca-cola memorabilia, to a pre-historic ground sloth, art, the universe, and everything in-between.

  • @bbkeats1
    @bbkeats1 3 роки тому +2

    Another great video by TOG! Well done! Informative and educational.

  • @moonlightfishin4113
    @moonlightfishin4113 Рік тому

    I've seen this display in person and it is wonderful.

  • @dawnmorning
    @dawnmorning Рік тому

    Live close to original root glass mine in Indiana. Found this video. Thankz

  • @pauleichenlaub7157
    @pauleichenlaub7157 3 роки тому +2

    loved it

  • @BenPTV-lc5lr
    @BenPTV-lc5lr 3 роки тому +2

    Fascinating episode. Richard thank you for another well crafted, engaging installment of your show. Coca-Cola has always been part of my family.

    • @TheOrlandoGuy
      @TheOrlandoGuy  3 роки тому +2

      Awesome! Sledgehammer that like button and stay safe awesome and blessed 😀

  • @mormormanthenyou
    @mormormanthenyou 3 роки тому +2

    Who knew? Your videos are very professional.

  • @caroh2037
    @caroh2037 3 роки тому +3

    Really awesome video.
    I had no idea this museum is in Daytona.
    Will definitely visit!

    • @MOASDaytona
      @MOASDaytona 2 роки тому +1

      We just celebrated our 50th year anniversary at our current location! 352 S. Nova Rd., Daytona Beach, Florida. We are tucked away in the Tuscawilla Nature Preserve. Lots to explore! Hope you can come visit with us soon.

    • @TheOrlandoGuy
      @TheOrlandoGuy  2 роки тому

      You should!

  • @BoysOfCinnamonCat
    @BoysOfCinnamonCat 3 роки тому +1

    So much cool stuff there!!

  • @robertojuarez959
    @robertojuarez959 Рік тому

    😮😲🤩😍💖👍‼️