Farewell to the Coke bottle
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When you grow up in a declining New England milltown in the '60s, you had to get your view of exotic lands from the bottom of a Coke bottle.
In those days, Coke plants cranked out Coke only in bottles; there were no cans, and at the bottom of each bottle was stamped the names of far-off locales where the bottles were made and the Coke was poured -- places like Detroit or Cleveland.
Or maybe Winona.
Those days ended a long time ago for all but one sort of bottle, the ones from Winona.
That ended today when the bottler there -- the last bottler to provide 6 oz. returnableCoke bottles -- announced they're quitting the operation.
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