History

[OH Osthaus]

Originally Posted by Jim DiSpagno

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.