Do you remember searching for soda bottles?

[Gardenlover]

We used to search the neighborhood for soda bottles to earn some coin, so we could buy plastic models at the dime store or go see a movie.

 

[asp3]

I do. We used to fine them on the way to school along the road. We'd pick them up and then take them to a little corner store on the way to school to get penny candy or if we found enough bottles packs of trading cards with gum. I remember getting Monkees collectible cards that way.

 

[Aunt Marg]

Yes, absolutely!

We used to get on our bicycles and with a bag in hand, away we'd go.

My cousin had one of those wire racks on her bike in the front, which made for a superb place to collect bottles, and back then all convenience and corner stores took in empties.

Was the difference between enjoying a bag of potato chips, a chocolate bar, or an ice cream.

 

[Chet]

Was it 5 cents per bottle? I remember "no deposit/no return bottles" too.

 

[Aunt Marg]

Was it 5 cents per bottle? I remember "no deposit/no return bottles" too.

.5¢ it was!

 

[Gardenlover]

.5¢ a bottle x N was a fortune back then. (Who says algebra is useless?)

 

[Aunt Marg]

.5¢ a bottle x N was a fortune back then. (Who says algebra is useless?)

(1+a+b)... b = bottles

 

[tbeltrans]

(1+a+b)... b = bottles

Careful there, Aunt Marg. Calculus will make our heads hurt worse than being hit with one of the bottles being collected. Besides, with that definite integral sub and super scripted with 0 and infinity, we will never get out of here alive.

Uh oh! What have you done!

Tony

 

[Manatee]

When I was a boy, a looonng time ago the local hardware store bought turpentine in drums. They got empty liquor bottles from the local bars, filled them with turpentine, relabeled them and sold them to their customers.

 

[old medic]

My brother and I hunted and crushed aluminum cans, and when we filled a 55 gallon drum we got $17...

 

[Aunt Bea]

My grandmother's farm was a mile down the main road from a little four corners settlement. We would take burlap bags with us when we walked into town and look for bottles in the ditches on both sides of the road as we went. In those days it was 2¢ for small single-serving bottles and 5¢ for quart soda and beer bottles.

Sometimes we found other treasures along the way that we would hide in the brush and pick up on the way home.

I think about some of our adventures and wonder if today's kids have the same independence that we had.

 

[Pappy]

We use to get 2 cents soda bottles and 5 cents for milk bottles. Every Saturday we would go to our theaters matinees. Colonia was 16 cents and Smalleys was 14 cents. Plenty left over for candy and popcorn.

 

[jujube]

I remember when Coke bottles had names of cities on the bottom, presumably the city in which they were produced. We'd get real excited when we'd find one with a "far-away" city on it.

 

[Victor]

Yes. 2 cents for a pop bottle and 5 cents for a quart. Then I could buy a candy bar or soda for 10 cents. The bottles were dirty even with ants. I forgot about that. Imagine telling kids today this!! Movie was 25 cents where I lived. I also stole cigarettes.

 

[Sliverfox]

On first date with hubby,, could hear ,clink, clink, as we drove away from my parents house. ???
Soon found out what the noise was, as he stopped to pick up some bottles.
Learned that was how he paid for gas for the old car he drove.