MARCH 21, 2017 BOTTLE UP: 1943. Uncaptioned photograph, circa 1943 Photograph taken by OWI of a brick tower, probably in the Upper Midwest. The tower has been repurposed to advertise for War Bonds and Coca-Cola.
Shorpy commentators quickly identified the tower as being in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the remnant of the 1886 Minneapolis Exposition Building. The tower's final owner, Coca-Cola, tore the building down in 1940 to make room for a new bottling plant and left just the tower, which stood for a few more years.
The advertising features a huge bottle of Coca-Cola near the top of it. Underneath it is a picture of a grave cross at a cemetery and the caption "This Man Gave a Life.... Will You Invest More Than 10% In War Bonds?"
Both the bottle and War Bond Ads appear on two of the sides, perhaps all four.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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