I won’t be the first to nominate a Coca-Cola bottle as an iconic “thing” and something which unlocks the door to heaps of memories.
If you were born in the first half of the last century, thrilled to the opening lines of “She Loves You” and thought the light had gone out of the world at the news that Otis Reading had died, then the Coca-Cola bottle is likely to have been a friend.
It will have accompanied you at countless coffee bars, popped up in films and cinema adverts, and was just a badge of being young.
And a decade or so later featured in that alternative message about the Vietnam War in IT.
That said in the mid-1960s it was being supplanted by the red can, and later a plastic version, to which can be added I am told by one of our kids a green version.
But all these later additions can not detract from the original “contour bottle”.
At which point I could wander over its history, but that has been done tons of times and can be easily accessed, so I shall just ponder on what other iconic “things” people would offer up.
Location; our Kitchen
Picture; an iconic thing, 2022, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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