Originally Posted by
drywhitetoast
Unlikely. ACEY "AC" call sign was named after Asa Candler founder of the Coca-Cola Company. Before AC I believe the call sign was Candler.
I believe it was actually ‘ASEA’ as in Atlantic SouthEast Airlines. Then after a guard unit had similar phonetics they went to ‘Candler’ as in your afore mentioned soda jerk. It returned to ACEY sometime around 2010ish after the guard unit changed.