Anybody Remember Back When?

[jerrybob]

What a small world...we did the same thing! On Saturday nights if we didn't have a date, the guys would go to town, pool their change, buy a couple bucks worth of gas and go to the drive in in Enid. Fifty cents to get in to the movie, a coke and a hamburger was about fifty cents also if I remember correctly.

Man....we're old! :drink:

 

[om21braz]

Right you are. Each bottle featured one of 32 National parks or monuments.

I did not know that. Not sure if I ever even had a Sprite from a bottle? Can, yes

 

[k0ua]

I did not know that. Not sure if I ever even had a Sprite from a bottle? Can, yes

When I was in high school (Late 60's and graduated in 71) you got all soft drinks from a bottle. I am not sure when cans came out, but bottles were how you got pop out of a machine.

 

[ovrszd]

When I was in high school (Late 60's and graduated in 71) you got all soft drinks from a bottle. I am not sure when cans came out, but bottles were how you got pop out of a machine.

Yep. In Vietnam, circa 1972, beer cans didn't have a pull tab. Had to carry a "Church Key". Still have mine, stenciled Schlitz.

 

[bunyip]

And the bottles sat in a machine in a bath of iced water, you had to slide the bottle through the guides to retrieve it then take the top off with the opener on the machine, it looked like a fridge laying on its side.
The cans were steel too and heavy.

 

[ovrszd]

I've got a mini collection of bottles and cans. I've got a dozen small (7oz) coke bottles. Some old enough that the labeling was formed into the glass. They have been refilled and ran thru dispensing machines so many times the glass is worn off.

 

[Oaktree]

In Vietnam, circa 1972, beer cans didn't have a pull tab. Had to carry a "Church Key".

I know they existed here in '71. I had an apartment that summer with 2 other guys, and we had a chain of pull tabs around the perimeter of the living room. We had a rule, beer tabs only, no soda cans allowed.

When I was in high school (Late 60's and graduated in 71) you got all soft drinks from a bottle. I am not sure when cans came out, but bottles were how you got pop out of a machine.

I just Googled it, and it turns out Coke started being sold in cans beginning in the mid 50s, with pull tops coming along in the mid 60s and aluminum cans began appearing in the late 60s.
Interesting history on Coke cans here.

 

[dragoneggs]

Who used to save the pull tabs and make chain curtains out of them? My mom hated the entrance to my bedroom!

 

[MossRoad]

Who used to save the pull tabs and make chain curtains out of them? My mom hated the entrance to my bedroom!

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Remember stepping on those barefoot? Yeowch! Slice you right open.

My wife and I walk a lot. We still find pull tabs once in a while on beaches and trails all over the place. They are getting about as rare as beach glass.

 

[k0ua]

Remember stepping on those barefoot? Yeowch! Slice you right open.

My wife and I walk a lot. We still find pull tabs once in a while on beaches and trails all over the place. They are getting about as rare as beach glass.

here is a bit of trivia you can file away as totally useless. Most pull tabs "back in the day" were not round. They had that odd shape to them after you broke the flat piece of aluminum off of them. But not the Frosty Root Beer ones. They were perfectly round after you broke off the aluminum flap. Guess what size they were? Yeah exactly the same size as a nickle. Although they would not work in the sophisticated Coke and Pepsi machines that checked for washers and things with holes in the center, they would work perfectly in any parking meter I ever saw. :shocked: