[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 43 (Tuesday, April 19, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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[Congressional Record: April 19, 1994]
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               TRIBUTE TO BIRTHPLACE OF COCA-COLA BOTTLE

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                           HON. JOHN T. MYERS

                               of indiana

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, April 19, 1994

  Mr. MYERS of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased today to honor a 
symbol of Americana and recognize its birthplace in Indiana.
  Today, the State of Indiana will dedicate an official historical 
marker to honor the ``Birthplace of the Coca-Cola Bottle.'' The 
bottle's design was created in 1915 at the Root Glass Co. in Terre 
Haute, IN, after winning a national competition to find a distinctive 
shape for Coca-Cola.
  During the decades that followed, the significance of that trademark 
has gone beyond the simply commercial; the Coca-Cola bottle has become 
part of American culture, a symbol that generations of Americans young 
and old recognize.
  Indiana officials, Terre Haute civic leaders, and representatives of 
the Coca-Cola Co., will be in Terre Haute today to celebrate this 
important occasion at the Vigo County Historical Society.
  Mr. Speaker, it is fitting that the House of Representatives should 
honor the Root Glass Co., for designing and the citizens of Vigo County 
for preserving a symbol of 20th century America.

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