Cliff Williams / TPI Specially printed Coke bottles were available to those who attended a ribbon cutting for the new Coca-Cola mural in downtown Wetumpka.
Cliff Williams / TPI Main Street Wetumpka executive director Haley Greene speaks about how the old but new Coca-Cola mural came to be.
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The red and white logo of Coca-Cola has been recognizable worldwide for decades. But it was more of a regional brand back in 1903 when the Montgomery Coca-Cola Bottling Company was opened by Crawford Jackson just down the road to begin bottling the soda.
A few years later the company put up a handpainted billboard on the building now owned by the Grier family and Frank Bertarelli. Last week a new mural came to life reminiscent of the days gone by. Local historians such as Janice Wharton and Dennis Fain don’t remember the billboard. Fain wandered downtown streets as a child as his family operated the Fain Theater.
Cliff Williams / TPI Specially printed Coke bottles were available to those who attended a ribbon cutting for the new Coca-Cola mural in downtown Wetumpka.
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT THURSDAY...
* WHAT...Temperatures as low as 35 will result in frost formation.
* WHERE...Barbour, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay,
Cleburne, Coosa, Elmore, Etowah, Lee, Macon, Montgomery, Pike,
Randolph, Russell, St. Clair, Talladega, and Tallapoosa Counties.
* WHEN...From 1 AM to 8 AM CDT Thursday.
* IMPACTS...Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive
outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
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