Collectible Coca Cola Signs - Old Signs Give Your Home Decor a Sense of History

I love round vintage Coca Cola Signs. I use old vintage signs the way some interior designers use paintings. I've grouped some round old signs in a line in our game room. My goal is to some day be able to buy a vintage coke machine, but that will have to wait until we can afford it. For now I pick up affordable coke signs at flea markets, yard sales and ebay.

My husband and I are restoring an 19th Century farmhouse, so our game room has wide wooden floor boards and spare walls. There's a pool table in the center and wooden tables at the side. When we started to scatter the old signs around, it's amazing how it started to look like an old-fashioned dive - just what we were hoping for! The perfect guy room.

I really miss drinking soda pop out of uniquely shaped glass bottles. I remember carrying the wooden crates in from the car for my Mom and loving the jingling sound of the glass against the wood. Just thinking about it, I can remember the smell of the small general store where we would buy our groceries. We live far away from any big box stores in Northern Maine, so that store is still going strong. And I now live in the neighboring town, but times have changed even here and the soda pop arrives in metal cans and cardboard.

I think that it's a need to remember places and products like that, that make vintage signs so popular these days. When you look at them, you remember the small moments of your childhood and family life that become so special as you age or move away from home.

Don't be shy about giving vintage old signs as gifts. Hey, you have a friend or father who just loves their Coke, won't have Pepsi in the house, then this is a wonderful keepsake for them. I know that half of the garage at my parents house is one of my Dad's favorite work spaces. He's added several vintage signs from gas stations and they look fantastic. He just wishes he had the antique cars to go with it.

Quite frankly I want to make our front porch look like the entrance to a general store, so I want to put a large vintage sign (and coke machine) on it and then a large bench. Just like the one that old men sit on and talk all day. I think it would be great to have a cold drink right there. (My husband and I might be discussing this for a while.)