Aleš Lombergar

I have never seen a glass 2 litre bottle of Coke. My suggestion is write directly to Coca-Cola and ask this question.

I’ve never seen a 2 liter glass bottle, but the 20 ounces were in the 70s. Coke is much better in a glass bottle, BTW.

the 70′s

I have 2 glass 2 liter bottles both sealed and in great condition that I am also trying to get some info on.. if you find out anything worth while, please email me back and lead me in the right direction

Coca-Cola DID in fact produce a glass 2 liter bottle, that is common knowledge here in Georgia. Just look at e-bay or other sites, you’ll find them. They used to sell them at the Piggly Wiggly grocery store and they were refundable.

They were made for a very short time, about 1 year 1978. They were replaced quickly with plastic 2 L bottles due to them exploding. They were also 1.00 deposit. I also have one of the bottles, but mine is TAB which is no longer made.

Circa 1973, Coke introduce the 1/2 gallon glass bottle. It was pitched as ‘The Boss” . The television ad campaign featured a husband phoning the housewife to inform her that he’s “bringing home the boss” – when he arrives, she’s dolled up with a fancy meal on the table and he pulls out the bottle.

p.s. the writing is imbedded into the bottle like a corona bottle.

These bottles were made for about two years, it was in the late 1970′s. They were all the rage, every pop instantly converted to these bottles. They were everywhere. This is where the story gets weird, it was even hard to believe back then. Most non pop/soda drinkers don’t remember them and it seem like to many people the bottles were around for just a couple months. Well, one day some had fallen off a shelf in a grocery store somewhere, and as it happened, if the bottle hit a hard floor at a certain angle, what happened was the bottle broke open from the glass breaking, the pop fizzed up, like mentos dropping in , or shaking a bottle, and the top portion, the cone shape with the lid would fly 10-30 feet, a sharp shard of glass hurtling towards people. It was dismissed, the bottles had been around, many had broken, but, it was true.
From about a 6 or 8 inch shelf, if tipped over, they fell hitting right at the lower part of the cone section ( top of the cylinder section ) and this was repeatable.
The pop that was stored at 4 feet high and 5 and 6 feet high, if it fell and happened to hit and break at that ‘magic’ angle, really sent this projectile top section the 20-30 feet.
It hit the nightly news, across North America,, hahaha
what a joke , most people thought,, these bottles were around for the last 2.5 yrs,, nope. with in a about 3 days, every bottle was removed off every shelf in north America and every bottle was destroyed.
I thought, they will be collector items, but, they didn’t catch on.
Coke, denies this whole story, that the bottle existed and won’t comment on when or why they were discontinued.
The next week, the same exact bottle came out in plastic, and people tried to break them, they didn’t break, and that bottle stayed until the new, curvy 2 litre bottle.
An interesting point on those glass bottles, they had ounces and quarts/ounces and litres all labelled on them,, like a USA (Britain ) ounces side and a litres ( Canada and overseas side, all on the same bottle .

It is amazing to me, that this story isn’t in a thousand places on the net. it is like it is a hushed secret. It was all to avoid lawsuits.

just found a glass 2 liter sprite bottle on the side of a river in the blue ridge mountains still has a sealed top. Is this something worth hanging onto.