Then and now......

Remember the old soda machines that you had to manually slide your bottle through a track to where the latch was and if you had the correct amount in the machine, you were able to pull the “glass bottle” of soda up through the latch? Also, those machines didn’t give change, so we had to ask the clerk for change. Coke (5 cents) came in a 6 1/2 oz. bottle and Pepsi (10 cents) came in a 10 oz. bottle.

Kids today would go nuts if they could buy gas for 24.9 cents per gallon. I even saw it as low as 19.9. Or, a hamburger for 15 cents, Hershey bars were 5 cents, balloons for making water balloons cost 1 cent. Drive-in movies were a buck a carload on certain nights, plus on holidays, we had all night movies with coffee and donuts during the last movie.
 
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911 said:
Remember the old soda machines that you had to manually slide your bottle through a track to where the latch was and if you had the correct amount in the machine, you were able to pull the “glass bottle” of soda up through the latch? Also, those machines didn’t give change, so we had to ask the clerk for change. Coke (5 cents) came in a 6 1/2 oz. bottle and Pepsi (10 cents) came in a 10 oz. bottle.

Kids today would go nuts if they could buy gas for 24.9 cents per gallon. I even saw it as low as 19.9. Or, a hamburger for 15 cents, Hershey bars were 5 cents, balloons for making water balloons cost 1 cent. Drive-in movies were a buck a carload on certain nights, plus on holidays, we had all night movies with coffee and donuts during the last movie.
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Remember doing all those things. Big ice cream bar, 10 cents...double stick popsicle for sharing with your friend, 5 cents.
On those soda machines, if you carried a bottle opener and straw, you could drink the soda without taking it out. Just had to make sure no one was watching.
 
Pappy said:
Remember doing all those things. Big ice cream bar, 10 cents...double stick popsicle for sharing with your friend, 5 cents.
On those soda machines, if you carried a bottle opener and straw, you could drink the soda without taking it out. Just had to make sure no one was watching.
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I hate to admit it, but I was with a buddy one night who did exactly that. I was scared for over a week because I kept thinking the cops were going to show up on my doorstep.
 
Remember drinking about a third of the soda and then refilling the rest with water to "make it go further"?

I remember when you'd get the glass bottles out of the cooler or machine and they'd be so cold they'd have shards of ice in them. Ahhhh, nothing tasted better on a hot summer day.

The five cent double frozen popsicle I always had to share with my sister and we'd always argue what flavor to get. She liked grape, I didn't. And then there was always the fight over who got to break it apart. Sometimes one side would be microscopically bigger than the other side and you can imagine the conflict THAT caused.
 
Pappy said:
Remember doing all those things. Big ice cream bar, 10 cents...double stick popsicle for sharing with your friend, 5 cents.
On those soda machines, if you carried a bottle opener and straw, you could drink the soda without taking it out. Just had to make sure no one was watching.
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Wow, why didn't I think of that? Talk about needing a sugar fix....
 

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