And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Had a drug store on main street back in the 60's that an old couple had owned for years. They had nickel cokes and green rivers and penny candy on the counter. I was maybe 6 at the time and an older kid maybe 12 or so stole some of the gum on the counter and the old man who ran the place hit that kid with his cane hard enough that the kid dropped the candy and ran out the store crying. Left an everlasting impression on me for sure.
Ha! Price gouging, depending on when the price shown was current. They were 5 cents when I was a kid, although the price shown may reflect the additional 2 cent deposit if the purchaser walked away with the bottle.
I have never understood how the soft drink industry got away with not being required to clean and re-use the bottles like it did "back in the day." So much for that Green New Scam.
That's correct. First job I had was at a Pepsi bottling plant in town. All those return bottles went through a thorough cleaning and inspection and then down fill line it went.
I recall dime cokes from a machine like this next to the local library in the community center. These machines disappeared about when I heard about people just popping off the exposed caps on the bottles and draining the soda into other containers. Sort of an indictment of the way society's morals changed.
Same with the horizontal slide bar machines. Only difference was the kids carried a straw. Great machines cause the bottles hung in ice water. Bubbarust
Yup.
ReplyDeleteIt's worth it's price in gold today.
ReplyDeleteThe barber I go to when in the US still has a working model.
ReplyDeleteWonderful and simpler times. (Big sigh!)
ReplyDelete7 cents? I remember a nickel coke. so strong it made your eyes water.
ReplyDeleteHad a drug store on main street back in the 60's that an old couple had owned for years. They had nickel cokes and green rivers and penny candy on the counter. I was maybe 6 at the time and an older kid maybe 12 or so stole some of the gum on the counter and the old man who ran the place hit that kid with his cane hard enough that the kid dropped the candy and ran out the store crying. Left an everlasting impression on me for sure.
DeleteHa! Price gouging, depending on when the price shown was current. They were 5 cents when I was a kid, although the price shown may reflect the additional 2 cent deposit if the purchaser walked away with the bottle.
ReplyDeleteI have never understood how the soft drink industry got away with not being required to clean and re-use the bottles like it did "back in the day." So much for that Green New Scam.
As far as I know, the reason for the deposit on pop bottles was the fact that they recycled them over and over again.
DeleteThat's correct.
DeleteFirst job I had was at a Pepsi bottling plant in town.
All those return bottles went through a thorough cleaning and inspection and then down fill line it went.
Late 70's I worked for Coke and part of my job was collecting the empties from the HUGE bottle rooms in the back of grocery stores.
DeleteI don't recall it ever being 7 cents, but I'm a bit younger than a lot of you. 10 or 15 cents is what I remember.
ReplyDelete20 cents at the Sunoco station I pumped gas at in 76. Lot of cool cars came in for the hi test.
ReplyDeleteI recall dime cokes from a machine like this next to the local library in the community center.
ReplyDeleteThese machines disappeared about when I heard about people just popping off the exposed caps on the bottles and draining the soda into other containers. Sort of an indictment of the way society's morals changed.
I recall that they were free if you brought your own bottle opener + a cup. Let Gravity work for You.
ReplyDeleteVery nice of the companies to label the topcaps so as not to strain my young eyes.
Same with the horizontal slide bar machines. Only difference was the kids carried a straw. Great machines cause the bottles hung in ice water.
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