Posted 3 years ago
WillSol
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A remote location near Da Nang, Viet Nam in midsummer 1969. Found a local seamstress with a vintage Singer Treadle machine. Actually these machines seemed to be everywhere. It looks like the little boy needs to have the waist on his trousers taken in. Not a good marketing strategy.
Do you notice the bottled Coca Cola she is also selling? Everything I drank came in a can. Where she found these bottles remained a mystery, until today.
I have learned there was a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Da Nang.
Interesting but why is Coca-Cola printed backwards on the bottles
I was stationed near Danang in 1966. Coke was everywhere. We would talk about the fact that the Coke bottling plant nearby was never a target of the Viet Cong as were most other factories. Hmm, what was the reason for that?
You learn something every day. Maybe the backwards spelling was because it was bottled nearby. Thanks for the comments and information. Maybe that's why every bottle had a different level of Coke in it.
I had never noticed until now that Coca-Cola was printed backwards, thanks Vynil33rpm.
The different level in each bottle was that, most likely , the plant was not automated so everything had to be done by hand. Danang at that time did not have a reliable electrical power grid. Service was intermittent and the factory had to adjust to the numerous power outages.
Neat photo!
It reminds me of the "pepsi kids" in Iraq-- sold EVERYTHING outside most of the bases, but pepsi was the mainstay.
Your photo was most likely just printed incorrectly-- so it is all a mirror image and not just something on the bottles.
scott
Thanks Scott. The backwards lettering was puzzling but now makes some sense. My original image of this was on a slide. About fifteen years ago I went through my slides and had photos made of the images. Maybe that is why the printing is backwards.
The reverse image slide image is a very common problem when having them digitized. I just had about 50 done and half were flipped.
Thanks Congcu. I'm going to take a close look at the slide.