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<text id=90TT2138>
<title>
Aug. 13, 1990: Business Notes:Corporate History
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Aug. 13, 1990 Iraq On The March
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 57
Business Notes
CORPORATE HISTORY
Remember the Real Thing
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<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."
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<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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