Things Go Better with Kosher Coca-Cola: Atlanta Jews and Coca-Cola
This is the story of how three men from Atlanta made it possible for generations of their fellow Jews to engage in that most American of activities: enjoying a drink of Coca-Cola.
Coca-Cola might not have been popularized at all were it not for the business acumen of a Jewish pharmacist from Georgia. Joseph Jacobs was the son of a German-Jewish family from Athens, Georgia, whose father had fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War. He attended the University of Georgia in 1877 and graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1879, becoming one of the few licensed pharmacists in Georgia. In 1884 he bought a drug drugstore at 2 Peachtree Street in Five Points, Atlanta, and moved his entire family to the city. This store, which became the location of Jacobs’ Pharmacy, would be the first of 16 pharmacies owned by Jacobs. Jacobs was an astute businessman, and one of the distinguishing features Jacobs’ Pharmacy was that it had one of only five soda fountains in the city.
More: https://www.anumuseum.org.il/atlanta-jews-and-coca-cola/
This is the story of how three men from Atlanta made it possible for generations of their fellow Jews to engage in that most American of activities: enjoying a drink of Coca-Cola.
Coca-Cola might not have been popularized at all were it not for the business acumen of a Jewish pharmacist from Georgia. Joseph Jacobs was the son of a German-Jewish family from Athens, Georgia, whose father had fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War. He attended the University of Georgia in 1877 and graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1879, becoming one of the few licensed pharmacists in Georgia. In 1884 he bought a drug drugstore at 2 Peachtree Street in Five Points, Atlanta, and moved his entire family to the city. This store, which became the location of Jacobs’ Pharmacy, would be the first of 16 pharmacies owned by Jacobs. Jacobs was an astute businessman, and one of the distinguishing features Jacobs’ Pharmacy was that it had one of only five soda fountains in the city.
More: https://www.anumuseum.org.il/atlanta-jews-and-coca-cola/
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Atlanta Jews and Coca-Cola - Museum of the Jewish People
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