Do you remember??? Hamlet Coca-Cola

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Do you remember??? Hamlet Coca-Cola

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Why yes, yes I do. Had lotsa fun when I worked at Nettles Shell Station traveling on those 6 oz bottles.
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I remember too Sigmore. I grew up right next door to the plant on 74 East, and us kids spent many an hour at their dump site just south of the plant recovering all those valuables they had so needlessly thrown away (only in a kid's mind.)
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Does anyone remember when it was on R aleigh St :?:
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I remember the RC Cola place. I seem to vaguely remember CoCola was there also. Not enough for a concurrance though mind you.
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freddie. would the coke plant have been about where the barnes auto supply was and al's vacuum is now?
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That is were I'm thinking, I remember going by there on the way to the Movies from Longwood Park and thay's what was told 2 me, Maybe not the Coke Plant, but surly a botting Plant. :D
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i talked with lowery ballard today, and that's where the coke plant was. when the coke plant moved, the ballard's used the building for their warehouse for their beer company.
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Way back in 1948 the Coke bottling plant was on US #74 east of town, just a couple hundred feet or so from the junction of N.C. #381. A little bit of searching on Google maps will show the building still there, although I don't remember the two wings being on the building. My memory only conjures up the two story brick building with the large picture windows, through which the bottling process could be observed as the bottles were filled and capped.

Go to Google maps and enter.. U.S. 74 Business and 381 hamlet N.C. .. in the search window. Place the little "walk-a-bout" man on the white-topped building to the left of the intersection and view the building at street level.
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The only place I remember the Coke plant was where Bruce said on 74 east at 381. When did it move?
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I think it was moved after the end of Word War II about 1946 0r 47.
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Mrs. Jernigan's book of Hamlet history says 1948.
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I spoke with Abbie Gibbons Covington daughter of Jack Gibbons who owned the Coke Plant today and she said it was at that location, @ Mike & Shirly Wood, that expains why we would spot Ballard Beer cars on the Loading Dock beside the track that ran beside that street that runs from Raleight St. to E. Main st. so they could store Beer there, before they build the new building on Raleigh St. across from Mangum Coal & Oil, where they had their own spur and could unload from there :D
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Just catching up. I didn't realize I had been practicing invisibility for so long. It must have something to do with the curvature of the space-time continuum.

Anyway, this is a section of a map of Hamlet labeled August 1920.


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Ballard Dist. was also located on Heast Hamlet Ave. at the intersection of Bridges St. and E. Hamlet Ave, this is also where the first Hamlet ABC store was located. Ballard Dist. then built a new building on Bridges St beside the RR tracks and later built another new building on Raleigh St. beside the RR Tracks. This was also the location of the Nash (automobile) Dealership. It was a 2 story building and Consolidated Building Supply was located behind it.
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