A vintage wet bath Coca-Cola cooler - GIF

[ToolTalkBot]

A vintage wet bath Coca-Cola cooler.




Previously:

1909 Coca-Cola delivery truck - photo
1936 Coca-Cola cans - photo
1977 GMC Coca-Cola RV - photos
Coca-Cola T-bucket hot rod - photo
Coca-Cola telephone from the 1980s - GIF

[Duke_of_URL]

I hate to date myself, but...
As summertime kids, we'd earn money by walking around the neighborhood with a red wagon, knocking on doors, offering to take back their glass bottles or metal coat hangers for deposit. Coke bottles went to the grocery store and the local Cleaners would give us a bit for each coat hanger, although I can't remember how much we got on either item back then. Added up, we'd each make just about enough for a cold soda from the drug store's machine. Soda has never tasted as good as those days!

[Floradawg]

We used to get 3 cents. One guy at a service station would only give us 2 cents. Could you imagine being so cold as to do that to a kid.

[Frank S]

We used to get 3 cents. One guy at a service station would only give us 2 cents. Could you imagine being so cold as to do that to a kid.

He just hadn't gotten the memo, the deposit was only 2 cents the first year or so that I was collecting and selling them. One day me and a friend of mine set out for town with 60 bottles between us baskets hung all over our bicycles and a couple of onion sacks each in case we found more on the way to town. We took the long way because it was a paved road all the way by the time we had ridden the 8 1/2 miles we had 100 bottles you can imagine our Suprise when grocer handed us 3 dollars instead of 2 bucks. He and I usually bought a hamburger and a chocolate malt at the drug store for 50 cents then went to the Saturday matinee for a dime and usually wound up heading home with a quarter each. This was the first time we had even had 100 bottles and wound up going home with more than a dollar each. taking t6he shorter gravel road route we still managed to collect another 20 or so bottles on the way home. Funny how a simple statement can drag up a long-forgotten childhood memory. thanks.

Ps they were a dime each by the time my daughters were olde enough to collect bottles. Then some idiot came out with the no deposit no return bottles and screwed everything up

[IntheGroove]

The quart bottles were 25 cents. Big payday when you got some of those...