Which Atlanta pharmacy first sold Coca-Cola as a fountain drink in 1886?

Jacobs' Pharmacy first sold Coca-Cola as a fountain drink in Atlanta in 1886.

Pharmacist John Stith Pemberton created the beverage, but it was sold to the public at Joseph Jacobs' drugstore. The drink was mixed with carbonated water and served at the pharmacy's soda fountain, a popular retail setting for medicinal and flavored beverages in the late nineteenth century.

This origin is often confused with Pemberton's own business because he invented the formula. The Coca-Cola name was suggested by Pemberton's bookkeeper, Frank M. Robinson, who also designed the early Spencerian script lettering. The beverage's first year was therefore both a product-launch milestone and the beginning of a brand identity that later became globally recognizable.

Coca-Cola did not begin as a bottled supermarket drink. Its early distribution depended on soda fountains, and bottling came later through independent bottlers.