Coca-Cola Olympic City live shows for the Coca-Cola Olympic City Kids. The area was left vacant after the plaza's closure. In 2002, The Coca-Cola Company donated 9 of its of property at the site to The Marcus Foundation for use as the site of the new Georgia Aquarium, which opened in November 2005. The company also made plans to construct its new World of Coca-Cola on the remainder of the property; the attraction opened in May 2007. The area was christened Pemberton Place after John Pemberton, inventor of Coca-Cola and dedicated to the people of Atlanta. Coca-Cola Olympic City Coca-Cola Olympic City was
1996 Coca-Cola 600 1996 Coca-Cola 600 The 1996 Coca-Cola 600, the 37th running of the event, was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race held on May 26, 1996 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Charlotte, North Carolina. Contested at 400 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.4 km) speedway, it was the 11th race of the 1996 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. Dale Jarrett of Robert Yates Racing won the race. Chuck Bown would step down from professional stock car racing after this event. On the day of the race, 0.01 inches of precipitation were recorded around the speedway. Charlotte Motor Speedway is a motorsports