Comments on: What year(s) did Coke make glass 2 liter bottles?

By: james

james — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:07:03 +0000

2 litter coke bottles were in 70s i do work for coca cola in seattle , and yes hold onto those bottles there rare!

By: rich

rich — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:43:58 +0000

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.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:00:05 +0000

The bottle I have was given to me in 1975 .I have it listed on Ebay

By: smilesnkisses

smilesnkisses — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 04:48:48 +0000

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.

By: Duke

Duke — Fri, 06 May 2011 16:04:16 +0000

They did make a 2 liter glass bottle unless I’m looking at something and its something else

By: laura

laura — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 22:51:20 +0000

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

By: laura seelye

laura seelye — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 22:50:00 +0000

That’s why I’m looking here right now. I know that they were made in the late 70′s right before they came out with the plastic. They do exist because I have mine right here. Heavy sucker. Green bottle and white metal cap. Mine has the store sales sticker on it for .89cents. I’m looking for an estimate value. Please e-mail or respond here if you know. Thanx

By: thanatos

thanatos — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 23:15:41 +0000

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.

By: chris

chris — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:02:40 +0000

ShinyStars – your not that old then,

2 liters WERE made from glass, they were introduced in 1962-1977 when coke started using plastic while retaining the 16 and 20oz standard bottles, later replaced with plastic in 1989

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:35:41 +0000

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.