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Hi everyone!
Many people have been asking about the age of the Coke bottle sent from the Beachcomber motel in New Hampshire. The simple fact is–none of us know its exact age. We do know that it must be at least 30 years old, and cannot be more than 50 years old. I am researching the date code stamped on the bottom of the bottle, and trying to get a date for the bottle itself, at least. Sadly, even when we learn the age of the bottle, we will probably never be able to determine the exact date when the message was sent, since it was not written on the message itself. But…doesn’t that just make the mystery all the more intriguing? 😉
Thanks for your questions and thoughts!
Hi Clint — hope you’ll write up the whole saga of tracking down the Beachcomber Hotel for this Coke bottle, so I can send a link to my friends along with the CNN/WMUR story that brought me here:
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/living/2011/08/01/wmur.dnt.nh.message.bottle.wmur
Hey! I can’t wait to write the whole story! You know, I had no idea how this thing was going to blow up–and I couldn’t be happier. But, I had a couple things in the queue before the NH bottle. So, I hope you’ll come back, and in the next month or two, I hope to cover this story–like you, I am totally excited about this!
I always include the date and place I send bottles from. There are at least 6 that I know of that are still floating around the globe. Clint, keep a lookout!
Richard
Will do! I’m glad to hear you’re doing this now, because the business card I found didn’t have a date or place! 😛
Thanks, Greg. It’s interesting stuff: there were so many different bottling plants in different parts of the country, and they all started using screw caps at different times (and it depended on the size of the bottle, etc). Hard to track this stuff down, but I am hopeful!
The farthest back I can recall Coke with an aluminum screw cap is 1966 or 67, which is about 44 years.