This guy say's he has the largest soda bottle collection known with over 10,000. Does anybody know this guy or seen his collection? Wonder if he has cans also? LEON.
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Re: Largest soda collection
I bet the former Beverage Museum collection is pretty close, here's a photo of part of 1 wall. The collection is no longer opened daily to the public but arrangements can be made to hold private functions in the building in the next photo.
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This is the building that houses the collection, the collection is in the tower the first 2 floors are cans while the 3rd floor is bottles and the 4th floor is the office and if I remember correctly the gallon syrup cans.
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Here are a couple of photo's of the can rooms.
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I've been to Tom Bates Beverage Museum back when he was at Millersville or Goodletsville in Tenn. before he moved to new building. Thought he was selling his stuff or was it only some of it? LEON.
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Re: Largest soda collection
From what I understand Paul Bates moved his soda collection to the building in the pictures. The NPCC had a show in the new building and after the show we were all allowed to go to the Museum and pick through the remnants of the beer and soda collections. After that a few other trips were made by some and then the remainder of the collection was donated to the Nashville Goodwill.Leon wrote: Thought he was selling his stuff or was it only some of it? LEON.
Rumor has it that some of the cans may have been sold on Ebay with proper permission. Don't know for a fact but that is what I heard.
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I know some were sold on ebay but assume with permission. LEON
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