The Man Who Invented Coca Cola & Where It ALL Began - John Pemberton Locations / Birthplace of Coke
The Man Who Invented Coca Cola
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welcome everyone adam the woo here as a
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recording of this wednesday january 5th
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2022.
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i am at
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nisbet park
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right in downtown macon georgia
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and i will be covering the life
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the events
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that led up to the creation
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of not only coca-cola one of the most
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popular soft drinks in the world but
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also the man behind the beverage
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and i am not drinking a piping hot
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caffeinated beverage
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this a.m because i will be consuming
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coke classic a little bit later in a
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couple of spots john s
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pemberton
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was the gentleman's name
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and i will be starting here in macon
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going over to knoxville georgia and then
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ending in columbus georgia
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a series of different towns and
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communities just to kind of give a
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little bit of the history interesting
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history
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of the guy right here is where he earned
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his medical degree
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i'm inviting you to join me throughout
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the course of the day
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shall you now the hotel
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my hotel now the medical center the
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hospital
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no longer exists
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or the training facility where
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he accomplished that
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but right down here is a little placard
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that gives a little making history
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from 1839 to 1910 it was called the
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reform medical college
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of georgia and it was middle georgia
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because i'm in the center of the state
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was georgia's first
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medical school was founded in forsyth in
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1839
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which is i don't know give or take 30
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miles from here 20 miles from here not
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too far on the outskirts of town
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but it moved to macon to the spot in
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1845 where it remained 50 years before
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going up to atlanta which is another
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tie-in there is a massive world of coke
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you know homage to the man and the
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beverage up there we'll not be going to
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atlanta going to kind of stay in some of
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the smaller communities and towns but
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also wanted to mention that too so five
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years after it moved from macon to here
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is where he
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ended up getting his degree
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pretty fascinating
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it's kind of the middle it's not going
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to be in chronological order obviously
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based on commute times and starting here
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and going over
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to columbus i thought this is pretty
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fascinating and worth
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and we're showing there's also another
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signage here there's all kind of of
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little placards
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all over
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all over the town
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shows here
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i believe he was also
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freemason could be wrong on that
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i think he might have been
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all right get moving on to the next spot
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wanted to start off with this one though
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this is kind of a kind of a deep cut
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i should also mention
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that
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he was kind of like a
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a chemist of sorts
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which has ended up how he took that
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degree
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and his knowledge of everything to
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create
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the soda pop
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that many know and love not too
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confusing of a route today so going to
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start here in macon the the tip of the
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pin here and then move along and go
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through knoxville
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and then from knoxville
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all the way down
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to columbus and there will be a series
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of spots over in columbus so going from
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macon
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to
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knoxville just outside roberta and then
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to columbus
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to cover some ground and some
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correlation atlanta
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is up here
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way back on july 8th of 1831
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just off highway 80.
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in a tiny town
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that now has only about 100 or less
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residents
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knoxville georgia
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right here is the historic crawford
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county courthouse
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there is a store just adjacent to this
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i'm gonna see if they have a an icy cold
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coca-cola
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that i can enjoy in honor of the man
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himself the birthplace
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of john s pemberton
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without him
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there'd be no classic
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pretty wild to think about huh and on a
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side note this road that
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rolls through town is known as
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federal wire road
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created in 1810
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formerly known as stagecoach
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road
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if you just use your imagination you can
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picture some stage coaches
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rolling through town here as well
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right here along this
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this road which now no stagecoaches
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just vehicles
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got a nice little old
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timey water wheel
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right over here
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and the knoxville store
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which is really one of the only
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business establishments right here
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off of this main road
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which is where i'm gonna head in
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up top you can see
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they even have the logo well one of the
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logos
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says drink coca-cola
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little checkerboard
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section out front here
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none of the pieces
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i guess you could use it for
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chess or checkers but probably for
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checkers
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there's one of the trademark logos as
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well
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it's kind of cool around this area so
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they got some
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some logs for fires and as i walk in
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take a look right up here
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fountain service
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delicious and refreshing
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oh wow up on the wall there
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and of course over here you got you get
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a 12 pack
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which i'm not gonna
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i'm not going to get that many and or am
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i going to get a 2 liter
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did not have any glass bottles
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so i opted for the
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recyclable plastic one
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and that works
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also got some of that
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that red georgia clay right there
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which definitely gets
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definitely will stick to the bottom of
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your shoes
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i walked through it and took about 10
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minutes
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using one of the
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the parking
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curbs
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to scrape it off the bottom before i
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walked in the store so
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just recommend don't go
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don't go trouncing through there
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i'll walk over to the sign
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that states the birthplace of pemberton
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and drink this
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the knoxville store do not have bottles
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though thought maybe they'd have the
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old timey looking bottles
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but they don't cut the next best thing
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plastic there are in fact two signs
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located here in in town
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he lived here for seven years
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okay i'm mistaken i thought they said
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1831
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to 18
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38 but it's
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that's when he passed on was in 88.
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he only lived here for a short time as a
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youth
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it's been a lot of
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his formidable years up in rome which
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was kind of you know close a little bit
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past atlanta
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but he would come back here and visit
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his aunt and uncle
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and his uncle
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had his hand in the pharmacy industry
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and that sparked a little bit of that
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interest
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for john
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and it is not known exactly
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where the birthplace was on what road it
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was on nor where the homestead or
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could have been a doctor's office
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would have been
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pretty interesting so there's one sign
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here and there's another one
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over on
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highway 80 which is just off
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off in the distance
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and the town of knoxville
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is just adjacent to roberta
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of course macon is where i just headed
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from about
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30 minutes up the way
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i'll be going over to columbus
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i'll show the other side over here which
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is where i'm gonna
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drink this drink this beverage just took
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the top off and the sudsiness is
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starting to
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go down
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oh yes
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this one's for you john
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pretty dang cool
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see if you can hear the enjoyment
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in my
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lips that's ref that's good stuff that's
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refreshing there's a windmill
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over there too which kind of adds to it
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now he did have a couple of stores
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in columbus where i'm heading i'll show
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the locations of those they're not there
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anymore but i will show where those were
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and in atlanta
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like i said is where the museum was i'm
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drinking another sip of this
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spoiler alert i will get another one of
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these preferably a bottle
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when i go over
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to his
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you know final resting place
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to pay my respects as well get a little
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closer
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there's a mail carrier right over there
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it's not in a male car
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but it's in a male vein
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see
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very interesting tie-in also
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you know with coca-cola
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everyone has a story my grandfather or
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my dad's side worked
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as a delivery man
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for the company for a long time in
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aberdeen mississippi
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and i could always recall going there
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over to their house we go there you know
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for holidays and whatnot on vacation
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and spend a week or so and always have
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the little either six or eight ounce
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tiny bottles
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of this incredible
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the coke classic before new coke
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which was didn't last very long
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and i would go in the kitchen my
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grandmother's kitchen i would pop the
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top she out like underneath the sink
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you'd open the little wooden cabinet
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door and she had
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a little little little metal
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contraptions that you pop the top off of
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good memories of my youth
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and i think that's how i kind of develop
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my love not only of the soda
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but also just you know the the nostalgia
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of it if you will
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gotta get a good one there there we go
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that's for posterity
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carbonation a lot of carbonation feeling
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the carbs feel the carbonation there and
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fun fact this is the first carbonated
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beverage i've had probably about a week
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or so i mostly just been drinking you
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know coffee in the mornings and then
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water the rest of the day i've been
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trying to drop a few pounds it's working
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pretty good i'm not weighing myself or
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getting on a scale or anything but i've
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been doing good i guess today will be a
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cheat day when it comes to
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to soda
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but yeah you kind of have to it's kind
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of a winning row moment also the road
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that runs behind highway 80
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there's another street it is william
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bartram trail
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traced back to 1777.
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when he camped nearby at a quote
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beautiful large brook
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so this is kind of a cross streets
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of
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highway 80 over there and this looks to
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be
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highway 42
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okay moving on got about a 70 mile
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commute to the next spot
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over to well the next series of spots
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over at columbus
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about 70 miles give or take
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and along the drive
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noticing
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this signage
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which does pertain
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to the subject matter now
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around the opposite side it's been
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removed
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but he did have the logo on that front
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side even though it was very faded out
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and if i see anything pertaining to the
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subject matter like this
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this abandoned store here reeves grocery
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which is advertising it i'll show that
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as well
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this is a gas station
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take a look down here
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you can see where the pumps used to be
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right there on that slab of concrete
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that's pretty dang cool a little relic
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of the past
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right here off the road i'm taking to
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columbus
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i have now made it into columbus georgia
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onto seventh street
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looking for a home that should be right
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up
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here corner of broadway right over there
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and next to this brick home
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is the pemberton cottage
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and there is an information placard here
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from 1855 to 1960 dr john s pemberton
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the originator of the formula for
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coca-cola lived in this house
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with his family
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the doctor and his wife anna
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eliza clifford lewis
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had only one son
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charles
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he originated several medicines before
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he moved to atlanta in 1869 passed away
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in 1888
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and is over
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at linwood which isn't too far from here
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in 72 the historic columbus and
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the coca-cola company partnered to safe
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and restored the home originally located
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oh this is interesting
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okay it has been moved
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originally located
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over at 1017
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third avenue
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the house
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the house and and out building were
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moved to this site
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this home served as a house museum until
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2013
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but is no longer
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a house museum
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got to keep this in mind i want to go
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over and see where the house originally
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was
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1017 third avenue
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continued on the other side go over to
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the other side
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the victorian details and the half story
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were added by a later owner of the home
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were removed when the home was moved to
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the site
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this was erected back in 2015.
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there it is the pemberton
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cottage
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where him and his wife lived
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had one son
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and it's it's an interesting story it
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did not work out well
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for the pembertons
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for john or for his son
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who was going to inherit part of the
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shares of some of the company more on
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that a little bit later
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and kind of died i want to say penniless
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but
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when he passed on did not
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did not reap the benefits of the the
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fortune
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at least he's being remembered remember
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being by from the
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the state and
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the community
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and as well as plenty that consume
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tasty beverage on a daily basis here is
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a photo of young dr pemberton
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his wife and son
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and in order to move it back in 72 take
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a look at what it looked like historical
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took the house down to its original
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studs
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in order to restore the original shape
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later in life
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he grew a very impressive beard
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dr pemberton did dead
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show a photo of that
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i'm going to move over go over
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see if i can go to 1017 third avenue and
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then also showed where his
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his general store was
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and a couple other spots around the area
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i'm really liking these lanterns here
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along the road
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street lights
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would think that this this would be
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where the house originally was
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glad i read it up on that because we go
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over to the where the original spot was
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curious what's there now okay this is
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where the house originally stood right
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here on the corner of 10th and third
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at 10 17.
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so it would have been right there
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right on this corner right where this
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parking lot is now
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this is the old neighborhood
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over onto broadway which has a strip of
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stores
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and other local businesses
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which is where
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a few of
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pemberton's stores were
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from 1857 until 1869
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one of many in columbus pemberton was a
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partner in six firms in those years
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partners included robert carter
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and
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nathaniel
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knuckles
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a wealthy local businessman who supplied
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the capital for their store store and
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cook's hotel i need to find where cook's
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hotel it was
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all of them all of the stores had a soda
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fountain dispensing what
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sparkling drinks
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for 10 fruit extracts with soda water
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but also
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a french wine of cocoa later
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was marketed as a tonic
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and a soda fountain drink originally
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he started the beverage as a medicine
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because he had a wound
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that was sustained here
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in town across one of the local bridges
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a little altercation that took place
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over there i'm going to try to find that
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bridge
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as well but i do need to find
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where cook's hotel was
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here on broadway
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you know maybe this says continued on
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the other side maybe there's something
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along the other side okay this is a
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little bit more
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this is a little better these ads reveal
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what patent medicines are being sold in
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the stores at the time the map shows the
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locations
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of the stores in downtown columbus
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they ask and you shall receive
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pemberton and carter
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physicians merchants
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and planters
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interesting
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and then over here
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number 93 broad street
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that's a different street
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not here on broadway but this is
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broadway okay we got how crawford is
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okay 10th street is right
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behind me or not behind me right in
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front of me
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so this is broadway i'm standing here so
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i'm right here
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knuckles and co is exactly where i'm
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standing but then if i walk up broadway
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to where 11th so 10th street
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is right there
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so that's 10th
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where i am so if i go up 2 blocks to 2
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and 3
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so head up broadway look for two and
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three that is where eagle
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and chemical house was
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and pemberton and carter number two
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that went to 1962.
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kind of confusing but that's the layout
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of the streets very long-winded but you
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know i want to show all the details and
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while i'm wandering around here
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harkening back to a simpler time the
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5 and 10 here at hl green
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five and dime oh no a five and dollar
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five cent to one dollar neon okay i
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misread that
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still pretty cool looking looking at the
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photograph i took of that placard two
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and three
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the other stores or possibly what was
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cook's hotel
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can't quite figure it out exactly
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but right before you get to 12th street
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as shown on that diagram
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i'm just gonna guess it was right here
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right here along broadway in what is
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this open field now
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next to this newer building
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uh columbus state
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along the same route the same road of
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broadway
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it's just my estimated guess
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the city was created as a trading town
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by the act of the general assembly of
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georgia back in 1827
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in
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1829 there were only 1 000 residents 1
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000
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inhabitants
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now there's about 200 000
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and that was about 30 years you know 20
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to 30 years before pemberton was here
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so your guess is as good as mine on what
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the residency was around that time
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10 000 perhaps
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just have to use some imagination go
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back to those days when the local
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residents would
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wander down this street go into either
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one of those three stores
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and drink what would become
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what we know now today as
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fascinating
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i think it's a huge disservice however
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the fact that there are no
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murals
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no old school painted on the side of
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brick
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advertisements
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through town
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for coca-cola classic
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left
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i think a new artist should
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should probably get on that if it's
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allowed that'd be kind of neat there's a
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there's a good open brick wall right
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there
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i don't know just just my two cents now
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you might be thinking
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wasn't it originated didn't it
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technically begin in atlanta
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a ways from here
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the answer is yes
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this is the version that had remember
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the wine in the name of it
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got rid of the alcohol
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once was in atlanta and that became
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what the
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coca-cola is
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so if you add in a little bit of the
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grandma's cough medicine
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that happened right here on broadway so
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this was the early incarnation of that
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backstory history
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if you will
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but that's kind of the subtle confusion
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on that that is why in atlanta the world
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of coke that is there
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signifies
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has the little monument there to
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pemberton with the
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impressive beard i have been there
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but i'm going deep down into the the the
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rabbit hole the deep cut version
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here with just a little bit of alcohol
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in it which we'd
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eventually become remove that so i guess
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you could create your own version
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if you were to have coca-cola classic
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put a little bit of wine in there and
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there you have it you have you have the
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broadway version here in columbus
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someone's talking and back in 1886 when
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prohibition came to atlanta
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and you were not allowed to have the
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french wine
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that was included in there i guess we
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could think we could thank that
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for the birth of
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a birth of the soda pop
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as well because that is the reason
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the alcoholic
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element was removed
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back in 1886 in atlanta and the first
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glass of non-alcoholic coca-cola
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sold in 1886 not here on market street
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or not at the market on broadway street
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i should say but they do have this
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they have this rather large version as
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well but they marketed the 1886 one as
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coca-cola the temperance drink
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which applied to people who
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didn't know that
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that reference were to people who did
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not want alcohol
26:30
in their refreshments
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and it is almost appropriate
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that his second home
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here in town known as the country house
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which used to be a few miles on the
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outskirts of columbus
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they have moved it back onto broadway
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where his stores originally
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were located just down the way about a
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mile but on the same road
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the country home served as the residence
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for pemberton
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between 1860
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and 1869
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and this was 19 years
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before the historic moment happened in
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atlanta
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as the originator of the formula for
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coca-cola he moved into the house it
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says he enjoys
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international prestige
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not he enjoyed it at the time
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but enjoys it
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after the fact because in 1869 he did
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not realize it was going to be
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the whirlwind that it has become
27:32
now he moved into this
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after the home which is located just
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around the block
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so the cottage if you take this little
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sidewalk
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gonna take a left go up a few houses
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that's where the cottage
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that was moved to so the cottage and the
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country home are within walking distance
27:50
of each other four miles the country
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home was four miles north
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of columbus this structure was moved to
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the site in 77
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and oh it was it was moved here to
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afford it the protection
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of the national register
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of columbus historic district
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so it's not on the national register of
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historic places but it is on the
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register of columbus historic district
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that's pretty dang cool
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this is a lot to soak in i know but i
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want to show all of it dr tuggles
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compound syrup of globe
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power
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it rolls off the tongue that was one of
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the original ideas for the name of the
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medicine
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before it became the wine version
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that eventually turned into what we now
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have is classic
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that name probably wouldn't have been as
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marketable
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and as i stated he he was using that as
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a form of medicine because he was a
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doctor
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and it had the other ingredients in
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that were later removed
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but he was using that as a medicine let
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me see if i could find that bridge where
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he was injured after re-looking it up i
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misquoted that name it was dr tuggle's
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compound syrup of globe flower
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not power
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which was the pre-version to what became
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pemberton's french wine coca
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which had you know different ingredients
29:15
had the alcohol had the coca had the
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cola nut and other things something
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called
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coca
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thyling
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i'm pronouncing that correctly
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which was later omitted which was really
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the i guess the
29:30
what took away the pain
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that's just my assumption and fun fact
29:37
that ingredient was not removed until 11
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years after the alcohol was removed
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glad i researched that a little more it
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was not removed at the same time as the
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alcohol so there was a few different
29:48
versions of it
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so in atlanta in
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1888 it still had that
29:54
kind of wacky ingredient which everyone
29:56
loves to like throw that little amusing
29:58
anecdote though why
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coca-cola was created
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that was gone before the year 1900.
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i thought they were it was removed with
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the alcohol but it wasn't
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interesting arrive now with this
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pedestrian bridge where there is another
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placard
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stating here in 1862
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john joyed the third
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georgia cavalry in 1862 and resigned in
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october that same year
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due to
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a disease of the stomach
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his lifelong
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melody not familiar with that word
30:38
i guess that would be a burden
30:40
he wrote he could better serve his
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country as a pharmacist and a chemist so
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in 1863
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he joined the home guard a unit
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here across this bridge
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or what was
30:56
the area before the bridge was built
30:59
where he suffered a saber gash
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and another wound despite his injuries
31:05
within seven months he reopened his
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pharmacy and launched a large
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wholesale warehouse
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he operated both in atlanta before he
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left to atlanta
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in 69 after that last home i just showed
31:18
so this is where it happened this is
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where he was wounded
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and why he needed to have something to
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help him cope that's why he made that
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pretty fascinating right
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oh take a look at this
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there is all kind of history
31:39
dedicated to him around here
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everywhere
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noticing this road
31:57
i'm driving down now
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running along the side of the railroad
32:02
tracks
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located right in the middle of the road
32:15
i just discovered there is another
32:18
little memorial
32:20
down the way a bit
32:32
at heritage park
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no swimming and no littering
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allowed
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i don't want to take a dip of this
32:39
no swimming in this
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you got the boat formation here
32:46
and somewhere around here
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should be pemberton
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yep
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there he is
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right there
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with the full
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scruff wagon
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going at everything the beard
33:03
kicking
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looking good sir
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jotting down the formula you know some
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of the secrets still to this day
33:14
are unknown under lock and key
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has his
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tools of the trade down here
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his
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books his medicine
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come on show us what the secret is john
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what's the secret sir
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the secret formula
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a true master never get never gives away
33:39
the formula and the secrets it goes for
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any franchise
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that is cool
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if this is here
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right here in heritage park
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i believe that's what the name but i
33:52
just read it i almost forgot what it was
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oh
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this placard has been removed
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i will show the photograph of online how
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i figure out this was here
34:04
i'll show what that used to say
34:07
it has been either stolen or removed
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and she is drinking
34:15
a bottle version
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of coca-cola classic
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yeah it's tough to read it when it's
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been
34:24
been confiscated right
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you can see where the
34:29
see where the screws were
34:30
well that's
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that's a bummer i hate to break it to
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you mr pemberton
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but the placard that had all the info on
34:39
it over here
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throughout the course of the town
34:42
you might not realize there is a lot
34:44
honoring you
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talking to an inanimate object i know
34:50
but yeah this one has been
34:52
this one has been removed
34:54
hopefully not stolen holy holy been
34:56
put on hold somewhere else but here is a
34:58
look at what the wording said
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on that plaque also his middle middle
35:02
name was stiff
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john stiff pemberton
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i suppose it's easier to say john s
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and i've heard others
35:14
over the years kind of mispronounced it
35:16
as smith john smith pemberton but i'm
35:18
noticing here it's not smith it's stiff
35:22
but this is what is over there that has
35:23
been taken taken away
35:25
maybe there was something incorrect
35:27
factual on here
35:28
who knows this is what was there
35:31
made it over to the last stop of the day
36:04
located near the very back of the
36:04
property
36:05
towards the far end fence
36:21
so it's obvious that that is
36:21
that is his
36:23
show in the back fence line in case
36:24
anyone would like to come out and pay
36:26
their respects a family plot no not only
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pemberton but also lewis
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which was his wife's maiden name
36:35
his wife
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her nickname was cliff
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middle name was clifford
36:43
but her nickname was cliff
36:45
and she was the wife of dr john
36:49
who is here john stiff
36:52
pemberton born in knoxville
36:55
crawford county sounds familiar right it
36:57
was there earlier
36:59
today on july 8th of 1831
37:04
passed away in atlanta
37:06
was brought here
37:09
to columbus the originator
37:12
of coca-cola
37:14
and people have left their bottles there
37:16
as well as some pennies and dimes
37:28
next to him
37:28
other family members as well
37:31
louis
37:33
carter
37:34
the wife of colonel
37:36
albert lewis
37:38
his wife's family
37:40
and more of his wife's family here
37:59
then again august 16
37:59
of 1888
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was way before i was even a glimmer in
38:05
my parents eyes
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kind of a disappointing
38:10
financial end
38:14
he did not become a very rich man
38:15
because of it
38:18
when it became successful hit the stock
38:20
market
38:21
and he sold a lot he was feeling very
38:23
ill
38:24
so he sold
38:25
a lot of a lot of the company
38:27
he left a few shares to his son
38:31
who i'm just going to imagine his son is
38:33
here
38:39
that would be my assumption
38:42
this is the wife
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clifford lewis
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was her nickname
38:52
and they only had one son
38:52
charles m pemberton
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in 94 or 80 1894 the age of 40. he was
39:00
very young as well
39:02
john was 57 if you do the math
39:06
from 31
39:08
to 88
39:13
july to august
39:13
and it appears as if the same year that
39:15
he passed on in 1888
39:18
is when the remaining shares him and his
39:20
son his son said he needed the money
39:22
didn't want to be part of it
39:26
the father and son sold off the
39:28
remaining portion
39:30
in 1888 shortly before the passing
39:34
of john s pemberton the creator the
39:36
originator
39:38
of the company
39:39
and they sold it to uh another atlanta
39:42
pharmacist
39:43
for just under two thousand dollars
39:46
now obviously in today's today's money
39:48
would be a lot more but
39:50
it probably about fifty thousand dollars
39:52
the number i'm reading forty seven 000
39:56
would be the approximate if you were to
39:58
to do the mathematics on it with
40:00
inflation and whatnot
40:02
so just think if you had
40:04
in the grasp a corporation a company
40:08
worldwide
40:09
probably the biggest
40:12
beverage company in the world dare i say
40:14
arguably
40:16
someone walked up to you and said hey
40:17
i'll take the rice to that for 50 000
40:21
would you sell
40:22
i think most of us would say no to that
40:25
but then again they say hindsight's 20
40:27
20. you never know in the end is illness
40:30
got the best of them
40:36
1888
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he is definitely remembered
40:44
little did he know
40:44
the whirlwind that would
40:46
take over the soda industry the pop
40:48
industry the cola
40:51
industry
40:56
i didn't end up finding another bottle
40:56
but i did well i got a bottle but i
40:58
didn't get a glass bottle
41:01
for mr pemberton
41:02
earlier i had a 20 ounce i believe but i
41:06
went for the
41:07
the jumbo
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gotta do it right