BBeM: Food, Candy, Drinks Item

Food, Candy, Drinks

Soda pop machines
that dispensed glass bottles
Glass bottles from soda pop machines

There are 7 comments for this item.

Posted by Katbear at 5:48 pm (PDT) on Sun August 16, 2009
Coca-Cola bottles used to have the name of the original bottling plant on the bottom. The guys I worked with all checked the bottoms of the bottles to see if local bottles had made it home.
Posted by columbus at 2:38 pm (PDT) on Sun August 23, 2009
the glass bottles realy took a beating in those machines
Posted by Beth at 9:26 pm (PDT) on Thu August 27, 2009
I used to have a behemoth Coke machine that was wooden inside. I sold it. I also had one of the chest types where you slid your bottles out and pulled them up through a gate. Somebody stole it from my backyard!
Posted by LeeFred at 2:33 pm (PDT) on Sat May 1, 2010
When I was a kid, we would sneak up to places that had these type of soda machines outside. We would have a bottle opener, a plastic or paper cup, and a couple of straws. We would open the little door, and use the bottle opener to open the bottle without paying for it. We would catch the soda with the paper cup, and then put the two straws together and drink the soda still in the bottle while it was in the machine. Free soda!
Posted by Max at 12:04 am (PDT) on Sun May 2, 2010
LeeFred, so you didn't end up in the electric chair within ten years? Some of the older generation in my family said that's what would happen to "those hoodlums" and me too if I don't stop hanging out with them. Ever get caught?
Posted by packratjohn at 5:59 pm (PDT) on Thu May 12, 2011
My local grocery had one just like this. The drinks were 6 cents, and you HAD to put the penny in first!. And, these bottles had the location on them as well. Always fun to see where the bottle had originated.
Posted by Tommie at 11:30 am (PDT) on Sat May 12, 2012
Permanent memory (1958): Across the highway from my subdivision was a cut rate gas station that had a machine like this, but red (gas was 21.9 cents that day). Next to it was a neighborhood grocery. A hot summer day with a dime in my pocket; I'd go into the grocery and buy a Hollywood Big Time bar- they were bigger than Milky Ways, but still a nickel- and then to the gas station for a 5 cent coke from the machine. Sitting on the curb, watching the traffic going by, consuming my Big Time and enjoying an ice-cold Coke. There was a rack next to the machine in which to put your empty bottle. Simple pleasures!

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