Can of pop/soda

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todalake

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I had a can of pop today and thought this is the way the grandchildren think of it. But for me:

1. Remember when soda was only in bottles
2. Then cans but needed a can opener
3. Then cans with snap off pull tabs
4. FInally pull tabs that stay on the can

Of course you can do similar progression with music playing devices.
 

With music I'm sure some of you can almost go back to devices that needed winding. Let's see...
I had a kid sized turntable and later a regular stereo. New record albums were $5.99. Double sets were expensive...maybe $12
I remember "compact" cassette players that weighed like five pounds.
I never had an 8 Track Player but I understand they were dreadful.
You'd make a mix tape for friends or romantic partners.
To record from TV or radio you had to adhesive tape the microphone to the speaker.
You lived in fear of your favorite tape being munched by the player.
Then the DiscMan that played the newfangled CDs, if you breathed the wrong way it would skip all over the place.
And now a credit card sized little IPod that holds like 50 gadjillion songs, sometimes technology can be a good thing.
 
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todalake said:
I had a can of pop today and thought this is the way the grandchildren think of it. But for me:

1. Remember when soda was only in bottles
2. Then cans but needed a "church key"
3. Then cans with snap off pull tabs
4. FInally pull tabs that stay on the can

Of course you can do similar progression with music playing devices.
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We had to have a "church key" before the pull-tabs. Think I still have a couple around the house. One end was pointed and would open pop/beer cans. The other was for opening pop/beer bottles.

When the pull-tabs came out, remember when those who imbibed would have strings of the pull-tabs hanging from their rear view mirrors?? Back then, if you got stopped you might just offer the policeman a beer from your stash. And, he might just take it and say "Enjoy your ride".
 

I can do better than cans or bottles. You had to go to a Woolworths type store with a food counter. They'd squirt the brown cola syrup in a glass and then add the clear bubbly water. They'd mix it with a long spoon.
Damn. I feel like my grandfather, saying what it was like in the olden days.
 
Yesterday I was talking to the wife about the many options I'm still discovering in my car and how simple my first car was.

My first car was a 1929 Model A ford sedan without power brakes (purely mechanical brakes), no power steering, only one wiper blade operated with a hand crank, no heater or defroster, and a gas tank at chest level in front of the driver and passenger. On the other hand, it did have a windshield that cranked open from the bottom. Great for ventilation in summer!

Later I had a '39 Chrysler coupe with a windshield washer and two vacuum-operated wipers. They worked fine until you went uphill and they stopped working. That was real progress!

My first modern car was a '64 Pontiac station wagon with all kinds of power things and I was afraid of it; so many things to go wrong!
 
Forgot about being called the 'church key'. The two ends swiveled together so you could carry it on your car key ring.
 
It's funny that's it's soda in some places and cola in others and pop in a lot of places. My uncle told me once that in his area of rural North Carolina, it was a "dope", as in "Ah'm goin' down to the store and get me a cold dope. Y'want me to carry you one back?"

I'm told that in Louisville, it's always a Coke. "What would you like to drink?" "A Coke." "What kind?" "Dr. Pepper." I can't verify that as I've never eaten a meal in Louisville.
 
Years ago each good sized town or city had local soda bottlers, here are a couple from my area.



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It's funny that's it's soda in some places and cola in others and pop in a lot of places. My uncle told me once that in his area of rural North Carolina, it was a "dope", as in "Ah'm goin' down to the store and get me a cold dope. Y'want me to carry you one back?"

That is hilarious, in 1970's New Yawk...dang all your friends who had a habit...
 
We always referred to it as sofa. I remember, when school let out, going across the street to a little gas station and getting a cold Nehi grape or orange soda. The bottle stood upright in a vat of cold water and you slid them over to the release point. Five cents was a real bargain back then.
 
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