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To: ezspkns who wrote (19483)	4/6/2009 9:33:05 AM
From: LTK007	Respond to of 71456

OT:Thanks! Must have been 20 years since i watched the show so it becomes like i a dream but this makes it real:) i see they present the key figure as a bank president, but i think he was the mayor also, but can't be sure. So the town's name is Quincy. <<But an odd twist of fate further padded the local economy, earning Quincy the unofficial title of “the Coca-Cola® town.” When the fledgling Coca-Cola Company first offered stock to the public, Mark W. Munroe, a local bank president, decided that people would always be able to find a nickel for a Coke™, so the investment was sound. Purchasing stock himself, Munroe urged family, friends and business clients to do the same. Reportedly, he even made seed loans to tobacco farmers conditional upon stock purchase – though offering to lend the purchase money and wait until harvest for repayment. (And my bank thinks free checking is doing me a favor.) Munroe’s diligence resulted in a town populated with Coca-Cola millionaires. The stock certificates were undoubtedly consolation when shade tobacco agriculture collapsed several decades later.>>