Lightning In a Bottle: The Early Years of Coke

On this episode of Our American Stories, why were Coke bottles green? How do Delta Airlines and Coca-Cola relate? How did a syrup that was originally sold as a patent medicine end up as the South's greatest export in the post-Civil War economy? Larry Jorgensen, author of The Coca-Cola Trail and the Return to the Coca-Cola Trail tells the story of this sugary soft drink. Support the show (https://www.ouramericanstories.com/donate)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.