Video footage from a 1919 Clarksburg, West Virginia Coca-Cola Bottling Plant showing the bottling process used then. Don't attempt to adjust your speakers - this is a silent film!
It must have been during the transition from straight sided bottles to the hobbleskirt type. Mostly hobble skirts it the video, but putting labels on the remaining straight sided bottles?
Manufacturing with conveyors and machines... just blows my mind! Here they were doing it by 1919!! Every thing since then is just variations and embellishments of that, I imagine!
I live in Clarksburg and just took some pictures of this old building. The current owner has been moving stuff out of it as it had caught on fire a while back and is probably going to be torn down in the neer future. Thanks for the post it was great to see what N5th street used to look like back then.