What did you spend the money on?
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we did when i was a kid and i spent the money on candy and sodas. thanks sjd
ReplyDeletewe got a nickel for each bottle.
Baseball cards and Little Tavern hamburgers.
ReplyDeleteThe fire dept next door had a 5 cent coke machine,but they requested that we return the empty's.
ReplyDeleteI used to go along the roadways with my bicycle and collect soda bottles back in the early seventies. I used the money to by more pop, or a candy bar, or the latest 45 record. I like the grass roots, Bad finger, or Three Dog Night.
ReplyDeleteAlso purchased the latest Archie or Marvel comic book.
Definitely better times than today!!!!! I miss it a lot.
Wish I could go back. Wasn't perfect, but a hell of a lot better than today!!!
I would go to Gino's and Topp's play pinball machines in lobby. Those were the day. I used to help ladies put groceries in their cars for tips you had fun as a kid in those days and you worked for a few bucks
ReplyDeleteI swiped them from garages in Newtown and cashed them in at Hutch's Market on N. Division St. Until one smart old widow on Elizabeth St put marbles in her empties and tipped off Hutch who busted me and wouldn't pay me again. It takes a village...
ReplyDeleteCandy for penny each.
ReplyDeleteBatman cards, and caps.
ReplyDeleteThose were the days. A kid could get a real stash in addition to allowances. (See back then, we had to do chores to get our allowances. Parents didn't just give us stuff just because we were breathing like now.) Those were great days. Miss them. Will we see them resurrect? Think Trump's our best chance at those days being revisited.
ReplyDeleteI remember finding them in ditches and I would cash them in even if they had dirt inside of them. I remember reaching through the fence of gas stations, etc. that stored them outside and if I could reach them I would cash them in.
ReplyDeletePenny candy!! Like so much gold...haha
ReplyDeleteMy friend and I would go on long bike trips collecting bottles from the side of the road and storing them in our bike's saddle bags. My dad would redeem the beer bottles for us. Generally we used the money to support our playing baseball.
ReplyDeleteSchool lunches.
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ReplyDeleteLove the Seinfeld episode about them.
ReplyDeleteI took my bottles to rc bottling on snow hill rd and then went to cals market for the best hot dogs ever
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