I hope some of you experienced this growing up
Dec 1, 2023 07:42:18 #
keywest305
Loc: Baltimore Md.
We as kids would bottle hunt and got .05 cents which at corner store got us a candy bar or a pickled onion.
Dec 1, 2023 07:55:05 #
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Dec 1, 2023 08:00:23 #
Me, except for the first. I lived miles from school and had to ride an old, smelly school bus for an hour to get to school. I remember, when I was in the seventh or eighth grade,
the bus got stuck in the snow and all the boys had to get out and push--success! Today, if there is more than an inch of snow, school is delayed three hours or cancelled altogether.
the bus got stuck in the snow and all the boys had to get out and push--success! Today, if there is more than an inch of snow, school is delayed three hours or cancelled altogether.
Dec 1, 2023 08:00:58 #
FrumCA wrote:
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Yup, but bottles were mostly 2 cents, big beer bottles were 5 cents.
Dec 1, 2023 08:35:12 #
Caribou
Loc: St. Louis, MO
I feel lucky to have been born in the late 40s and lived my childhood and adolescence in the 50s and 60s. I have a lot of very fond memories of those days. It was a simpler time in many ways. Not everything was good, of course. Although we have many wonderful material things today we have lost a lot of things we'll never get back.
Dec 1, 2023 08:58:45 #
Dec 1, 2023 09:01:18 #
Yes, but those soda bottles were worth only two cents. That large ones got you five cents.
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raymondh wrote:
Other than the mud cakes, this pretty much covers my resume.
Yeah, that was more of a "girlie" thing.
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Dec 1, 2023 10:27:23 #
kerry12 wrote:
Indeed I did enjoy these things and glad I did. Wouldn't have had it any other way. By the way. I think I only got $.02 per bottle.
Yes!! The quart (what??) size bottle was a $.05 refund. I think "my generation" is just a bit older. Born in 37'. There are many of these type lists of qualities/reminders of "The Greatest Generation"
Mark
Dec 1, 2023 10:38:16 #
kerry12 wrote:
Indeed I did enjoy these things and glad I did. Wouldn't have had it any other way. By the way. I think I only got $.02 per bottle.
You’re right about the bottles. It was two cents per bottle.
Bud
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