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My great aunt ran a country general store and I remember buying Cokes for a nickel (in a 6 oz. glass bottle that you returned to get your deposit back.) and lots of penny candy.
Who remembers Squirrel Nut Zippers? Or Atomic Fireballs Bit O' Honey Mary Janes Pixy Stix Red Hots Sugar Daddy and Sugar Babies and Sugar Mama. Tootsie Rolls and Tootsie Roll Pops Wax Candy Caramel Creams Cow Tales Slo Poke BB Bats |
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We still had glass cola bottles and recycling of same when I was in high school in the mid 1970s. I think they switched over to plastic bottles in the late 1970s or the 1980s. I remember putting our empty cola bottles back into the six-pack carton in which they were bought and returning them to the store for the nickle per bottle refund. I also remember and old retired man who lived at a nursing home in my town. He was old and forgotten by his family, but he was still healthy and energetic and we would see him walking all over town gathering up empty cola bottles to raise a little spending money. Later I found out that he gave that money to fellow residents at his nursing home. We called him Coke Bottle Joe. Everyone liked him. I hope he wound up in a special place, if such exist, as he certainly deserved to.
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*Side note: do not ever offer to pay your little brother in Dr Pepper for a week when he works for you. Amazing how many Dr Peppers he went through that week. It would have been cheaper to pay him with money. Oh and in the late 70's in Luckenbach, the kids were paid a nickel each for every Lone Star bottle they returned. Then a quarter to move the full case of empties to a certain spot. And of course the kids used that money to buy their snacks. |
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In the early 60s I used to scour the town for discarded bottles to bring to the store for the deposit.
And, like many hippies in the late 60s-early 70s, I used to make chains out of the fully removable pop-tops from cans. |
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Our preferred genre was sci-fi, but we also loved westerns and horror flicks. What was cool is that the movies were usually double features and included previews for coming attractions, a cartoon, a newsreel, and an episodic serial. After all that, we finally got to watch a couple of cool movies. Sometimes we'd stay and watch it all over again. Thus went a typical Saturday in my pre-teen/ early teen days. I miss that experience. |
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I can't tell you what movies in the late 70's because I rarely went or if I did my best friend's boyfriend always paid. She wasn't allowed to date so I always went with her.
Years later, my very much younger stepsister tried to use me to meet her boyfriend. I am 13 years older than her. I did the big sister thing and let her know how to pull that one off. The look on her face was priceless. |
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When I was very young in the late forties, the merchants in the small town we lived in would get together and pay for "free movies" on Saturday nights. They hired a guy who had a 16 mm projector to show "B" movies on a bed sheet attached to the side of a warehouse. Everyone would bring blankets and chairs to the vacant lot next to the warehouse and watch the movie.
My Da would give me a dime or quarter (if he was well off that week), and I'd go to the grocery store and buy a Coke and a candy bar for a nickle apiece. If I had anything left over I could buy a small toy for a dime or so. |
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