Coca-Cola Founder's Family Photos, ca. 1900
GUEST:
This is the founder of Coca-Cola, Asa Griggs Candler, and this is all of his brothers. And one was a bishop, one was a judge. We have lawyers. They were all very famous Georgians.
APPRAISER:
And what's the relation to you?
GUEST:
I am the youngest great-grandchild of the founder of Coca-Cola, Asa Griggs Candler.
APPRAISER:
Now, when you say you're a grandson of Coca-Cola... What happened to the money? (laughs)
GUEST:
People ask that all the time, Ken. It's interesting in that he was really a philanthropist as much as a founder of Coca-Cola, and he gave it all away.
APPRAISER:
He gave it all away?
GUEST:
He gave it to Emory University. He was the mayor of Atlanta. He personally financed fixing the sewer system in Atlanta. He gave most of his money away.
APPRAISER:
So he figured the family could get on on their own and...
GUEST:
I'm afraid so.
APPRAISER:
But this is a lot of fun, it's a lot of history. I'm sure it must hang over a mantelpiece or something like that.
GUEST:
It does.
APPRAISER:
Value-wise, $500, $700. But you were even saying that a cousin was in?
GUEST:
Yes.
APPRAISER:
That she had never seen...
GUEST:
No, she had never seen this picture. And we went through the lineage and all, so this is very popular.
APPRAISER:
So right here at the ROADSHOW.
GUEST:
Right here at the ROADSHOW. Right here at the ROADSHOW.
APPRAISER:
Great item, a lot of fun.
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