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Some folks collect the six ounce Coke bottles. There is a code on them that tells when, and where they were made.

Watching all the old 50's and 60's westerns of an evening and not really interested in the main stars, but the character actors that seem to show up in all of them! The obscure ones. Frank Ferguson, Leo Gordon, Robert Wilke, Dabbs Greer, Rod Cameron are just a very few. And there seems like there's 1000's more!!! Too many to mention. We've all seen em!!!

Spot on Bob, the second fiddles. It's the bad guys that make the good guys good.

The original glass Coke bottles weren't the classic 'hour glass' shape but had straight sides. They are highly collectable with some going for hundreds of dollars.

I collect/drink Mexican Coca Cola. Real Pure Cane Sugar is used to make them!!! They's YUMMY!


DMc : )

I WAS a Fuller Brush Salesman.......take orders during the week and delivered on Saturday.

Was very good stuff back then.

A couple of deliveries were interesting.

Ring the bell and a half pint opens the door as a half neked mom ran for cover.

And no novocaine at the dentist.

I Remember putting a bag of Planters Peanuts in a short Coke

That was livin'.

I forgot the garbage man.
The big strong guy that came in the yard to get it, and carried it on his shoulder.
Now we have a hydraulic lift on the side of the truck to lift it at the street.

I remember reading the bottoms of coke bottles where they had the place they
were made imprinted, from all the cases of them at my Grandfather's store
at his gas station...and imagine all the distances they had traveled and how
many times they'd been refilled...kinda like wonder where a bottle had been
that had washed up on a beach...

his coke machine, was a large old cooler, filled with water, and cooled
by a motor underneath.. weren't as cold as out of a refrigerator.. but no one
seemed to care..

Funny how in those day, an 8 ounce coke seemed to hit the spot, and nowadays
how many people do you see walking out of a 7/11 with a 44 oz "Big Gulp"...
no wonder Diabetes is rampant in today's society...

When they went to larger coke bottles, I remember people putting them
back in the coke crates out front, and many of them were not completely
empty... we had to pour them all out into the storm drain, as coke wouldn't
pick up the crates if the bottles weren't all empty...

Like the old song. "those were the days my friends, we thought they'd never end"....

In the same vein, how many remember their grand parents talking about their old days
and how much better and simpler they thought those were...my grandfather was born
in 1907 and my grandmother in 1911....

and grandpa thought you never needed much more than a 30/30, a 12 gauge,
and his favorite gun, since Rabbit and Squirrel were his favorite two forms of meat..
his Savage 24 in 22 LR on top and .410 shotgun on the bottom...

Granddad had a coke machine in his barbershop. You put a nickle in the slot, pulled the handle and the entire top of the machine rotated. Lift the lid and pull out your drink. Would only hold 24 bottles. Ice cold, when you took the cap off, the contents would turn to ice filled liquid.

Bright light switch on the floor boards.

Every town had at least one Cold Storage plant where (among other things) ladies could store their furs and woolens over the summer to keep them from being moth-ridden. Usually, that was also the place you could buy ice, and sometimes dry ice.

All the old Coke bottles are in Mexico.

Our little grocery store still offers charge accounts. We haven't taken advantage of that yet. Probably will when the kids get to running around on their own. That's coming soon. My daughter is 14 and she keeps telling me that she can take drivers ed now and get her drivers license.

Right next to the starter pedal which was located next to the throttle so you could get your foot on both at the same time.

Anybody remember what the "4 dot" on the back of the Olympia beer label meant?

I posted this on the corn picker tread as well. The way it was, back then.

Yes! You had to sing the same song when you were a kid!
Can you imagine today, if a teacher tried to get the class to sing "Oh, Lawdy, pick a bale of cotton...Oh, Lawdy pick a bale a day..."

Her teaching career would be ended that very day. She would be lucky to not get arrested.

The NFL had fewer teams, and played in MLB parks. The dirt part of the baseball infield when it was muddy, and the end zones marked with white diagonal stripes. The goal posts curved over the goal line.

I’m glad you started this thread. Now I don’t feel so old.