Author: William Parker
ISBN: 978-1-947589-08-7
Description:
- 200 pages
- 11″ x 8.5″
- case bound with jacket
- 71 original watercolor paintings
- 92 photographs
- index of names and photographs
Copyright © 2019
Library of Congress Control Number: 2019902553
Most folks are aware that the coke drink itself is made of two parts; syrup being one part, and carbonated soda being the other. While Atlanta for more than a century has manufactured Coca-Cola syrup, Chattanooga has brought the syrup and soda together in bottles or cans, as it were, and distributed the product, first to the state, then to the nation, and now to the world.
What Readers are Saying
Billy Parker has done an excellent job of weaving the various threads of the families involved in the birth of Coca-Cola into a tapestry. He has done extensive research into the men who had the vision to make this company into one of America’s icons. The book is punctuated with his personal artwork that adds a new colorful facet to the finished package … a must have for anyone interested in the history of our area!
~ Judy Rowland, local historian
Billy Parker’s charming Old South watercolors are the perfect complement to his illuminating tale of the Atlanta and Chattanooga Coke families. The book is much richer because he knew many of the characters and their descendants first-hand.
~ John Wilson, historian and publisher of Chattanoogan.com
Author Billy Parker has completely captured the complicated relationships of the Chattaooga and Atlanta Coca-Cola families with great style and integrity.
~ Sonya Young, aka The Purple Lady, educator, journalist, philanthropist
