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Originally Posted by GTAlphaPhi
Sorry TKEmz894, but you're wrong about both Coca-Cola and Delta.
The aviation company that started out what was to become Delta Airlines, Huff Daland Dusters, was founded in Macon, GA, moved to Monroe, LA, and then moved back to Atlanta, GA.
The first Coca-Cola recipe was invented in Columbus, GA, and the first sales were in Atlanta, GA (also the headquarters of Coke ever since).
Google and Wikipedia are your friends.
History of Delta Airlines (Wikipedia)
Delta Through the Decades (Delta Airlines, via Google)
History of Coca-Cola (Wikipedia sub-article)
Coca-Cola History (The Coca-Cola Company)
As an Atlantan, born, raised and educated (and the child of two employees of the Coca-Cola Company), I had to set the record straight!
But of course I agree that the South is awesome!
Edit: I just realized that even though this thread is still active, the post I've replied to is from 2002.
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Delta Air, however, WAS started in Monroe, LA...that's why there is a monument to Delta in Monroe...I went to school there and Delta is the driving force of the tiny airport in that city. Who cares where the original crop dusting outfit originally started.
Coca-Cola was NOT invented in Monroe...he was wrong on that count. However, the FIRST bottler of Coca Cola, Joseph Biedenharn moved to Monroe and lived there with his daughter Emy-Lou, where they built a well known garden and Bible museum in their home. His daughter was a dedicated AOII who willed the use of her garden to my AOII chapter for recruitment and any other formal activities. There is a fountain in her garden in the shape of our badge. And NO, Coke's colors are NOT red and white because Emy-Lou was an AOII
