Earl Blakeney fills Coca-Cola bottles the "old timey" way — one at a time. This archive photo from The Pageland Journal in 1980 says Blakeney worked at the Coca Cola bottling plant for 49 years, but does not document when the photo was taken. Blakeney's son, though, was an employee for the plant in 1980 and had worked there for 35 years, according to the newspaper.
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