Does anyone remember doing this? When we were young, my Bothers and I would ride our bicycles searching the ditches and sides of the roads for discarded pop bottles. Some of you may refer to them as soda bottles. That was when soda was sold in bottles instead of plastic containers. We would take the bottles to the store and receive 2 cents apiece for them. When the price reached 5 cents, we thought that we had struck "Gold". BTW, I bought my first Duncan YO-YO by doing this. Fond memories-YES.
Yep, "Pop" bottles and some called all of them "Coke" bottles no matter what flavor they were for. When I first started to school, I had to walk, probably less than half a mile, along U.S. 70 west of Ardmore, OK, to where I'd catch the school bus, so I kept a close eye out for those bottles. You see my Dad didn't go to movies, and he didn't eat store bought "light bread". But he spent one might a week in the Kincaid Hotel in Oklahoma City. Ardmore had a drive-in theater that was one price per carload on that one night a week. So, if I could find enough bottles, we'd have a real treat for supper that night; baloney sandwiches, and then go to the movie.:laughing: And then we moved to Healdton, OK, and a friend and I would hunt the bottles while riding horseback. Three bottles, 6 cents, would pay for a sack of Bull Durham and we'd try to roll cigarettes while riding a horse, like they did in the movies; spilled more tobacco than we ever got rolled. But my buddy, T.J. liked chewing tobacco and a plug of chewing tobacco cost 11 cents. Now I figured if he was that extravagant, it must be really good, so I bit off a little piece once and spit it out; didn't even chew it. It tasted so bad that I never tried chewing tobacco or snuff again.
Incidentally, when I was a teenager and my Dad bought a service station, the bottles still had a 2 cent deposit and the wooden case also had a 2 cent deposit, so the total deposit was 50 cents. And then we paid 80 cents for the case of soft drinks, sold them for a nickel each, so for $1.20 we made a 50% profit.