Haines City Florida
by Charles Harrison
I remember Emory Cocke who you mentioned on your page. He owned a company named Sunni-Citrus or somesuch. His company took orange peels and ground them down to be used as cattle feed. Mr. Cocke was originally from Atlanta. I first me him in the late 1960's, and he was very elderly then. He was tall with distinguished features and a mane of silver hair parted in the middle. His office in Haines City looked like it was set in the roaring 20's. His desk had an antique telephone and he used a dictation machine with the old fashioned goosenecked handle for the microphone. At the time he was driving a 1948 Cadillac sedan, and told me that he had many more antique cars at his home on Lake Hatchineha. I never got a chance to visit him out there, so don't know what he had. I seem to remember he was from an old Atlanta family that was one of the early investors in Coca-Cola.
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