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Visitors
to the Administration Building can see a display of Coca-Cola memorabilia
on loan from Clyde Partin, ’50C, ’51G, in the first-floor
glass wall case opposite the elevator. Partin said he began collecting
Coke memorabilia “by accident” around 1990. He happened
to have a Coke paperweight on his desk, and someone asked if he was
a collector. He looked at the paperweight and replied, “Well,
I guess I am,” and his visitor offered him a commemorative
bottle. “Pretty soon,” Partin says, “I had a good
stash.” Now he has roughly 500 pieces, about 400 of which are
bottles. “In 1990, when it was announced that Atlanta would
host the 1996 Olympics, I went out and bought six cases of the commemorative
bottles,” Partin says. Some of his favorite pieces are a bottle
from Mexico with a figurine, a Coca-Cola horse-drawn carriage, miniature
bottles and a Coca-Cola cookie jar (“Especially when there
are cookies in it,” Partin quips). All of these items are on
display. Photo
by Jon Rou. |
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