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- <text id=90TT2138>
- <title>
- Aug. 13, 1990: Business Notes:Corporate History
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Aug. 13, 1990 Iraq On The March
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 57
- Business Notes
- CORPORATE HISTORY
- Remember the Real Thing
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> By the time a product has been around for a century or
- more, it has produced mountains of nostalgia-inducing
- memorabilia. At Coca-Cola (age: 104), that history had been
- gathering dust in the company's Atlanta archives until several
- years ago, when Coke realized its marketing value. Last week
- the company opened a $15 million corporate museum called the
- World of Coca-Cola (admission: $2.50). The three-story building
- houses more than 1,000 artifacts, memorabilia and documents,
- ranging from 75-year-old green-glass bottles to advertising
- posters with tag lines like "The Ideal Brain Tonic" and "Coke
- Is It."
- </p>
- <p> Corporate museums are gaining in popularity, in part because
- many companies have closed down their plant tours to protect
- secrets and to avoid liability for visitors who might be
- injured. Among the corporate shrines currently open are the
- Frederick's of Hollywood Lingerie Museum and the Tupperware
- Visitors' Center and Museum in Orlando.
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- </body>
- </article>
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