History
 

Bruce Day has posted some interesting historical pictures lately and I thought this one may bring back good memories. This is on a building on Front Street in Georgetown, SC.

Scary thing is... I remember 5 cent Cokes with a 2 cent deposit on the bottle... Seven cents sure shot a dime all to blazes :eek:

We could still buy 5 cent cokes on Charleston Naval Base as late as the 1960s and then bet a buddy $1.00 on the location on the bottom of the bottle. The furtherest away won.

Best Regards, George

I too remember. We still have an old Coke Building in Montross, Va. where they make and distribute Northern Neck Ginger Ale. The Vintage Coca-Cola logo is kept up to date. Nice landmark.
Larry

i too remember the nickle coke but also remember that a lot of times i did not have a nickle....we have a dr pepper sign in my home town of fulton miss that has there logo on a brick wall...thanks for the memories.. and i believe that nickle coke tasted better than these dollar fifty now do...charlie

2 cent deposit is pretty heafty for a 5 cent coke. I bet all the bottles got returned.

Pretty much, except for the one your mom kept to put the sprinkle top on to use when ironing the laundry. Some kid was willing to pick up any that were discarded.

Cleaning and sorting the bottle returns at the little store in town, so that the various bottlers could pick them up, was my first real paying job (at about 12), if you don't count occasional cash for working on a friends family farm,

Returning soda and beer bottles and gevell gallon jugs for $.20 cents was what kept us in BBs , pellets and .22 ammo from the local hardware store. Also made for a good supply of the 5 cent balsa wood gliders. Rarely spent it on another soda, homemade lemonade and ice tea was for free. Where on earth did the world go wrong?

Going back a little more into history, my Dad and his brother used to poke through the gullies on the nearby farms (they all had one for trash) for bottles to sell to the bootleggers during prohabition (they got more for their hooch in a real bottle). Not only did that get them in to the movie theater for the matinee, but they both save up from that to buy their first 22 rifles.

Green before green was cool. :)