embossed on the bottom of contour COKE A COLA bottles. Many of

Town Names
Until the early 1960s, the town where the drink was bottled was embossed on the bottom of contour bottles. Many of us remember playing the "distance game" when we were younger; the person whose bottle carried the name of the most distant city was the winner. Many collectors are intent on getting every variant of those bottles. Veteran collector John Thom of Woodstock, Ga., has accumulated bottles from 1,200 of the 1,450 different towns he has identified that bottled Coca-Cola.

"The last 250 are extremely tough," John reports. "I bought one from Lancaster, S.C., and at that time nobody had ever found one from there. I paid $25 and today it's probably worth $400 to $500."
THESE ITEMS ARE FROM A COLLECTION OF 21 . LEFT TO RIGHT. PARTIAN S.CAROLINA, YORK, ALAMBA, AND BOSTON