6-1/2 oz Coke, painted label

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Cool old coke. I remember driving my bike all over town looking for bottles in ditches and along roadways and sidewalks.....and made some decent money for candy and a slurpee. I couldn't believe that people would just throw away ten cents like that. Life was good back then, especially if i nabbed a bigger bottle on my route, those paid 20 cent.
 

Cool old coke. I remember driving my bike all over town looking for bottles in ditches and along roadways and sidewalks.....and made some decent money for candy and a slurpee. I couldn't believe that people would just throw away ten cents like that. Life was good back then, especially if i nabbed a bigger bottle on my route, those paid 20 cent.
I worked at a watermelon farm. In 1968 they had 16 oz Cokes for a dime at their stand; 20 cents if you took the bottle to go.
 

I seem to recall a nickel per bottle
 

In Iowa in the '60s we got $.03 per bottle. Not too good unless you had a ton of them. They were dangerous to handle, too. My cousin wrecked his bike returning a bunch of them and got cut up by the broken glass.
 

I was allowed 1 pop per week when I was a kid. Coke was my favorite by far. Pepsi was too sweet, 7up was for upset stomachs. LOL
 

Our local Sinclair station had a Coke machine that was the chest-type: lift the lid and pull the bottle through a maze to get it out of the cold water.
 

Not my oldest by any means, but I like the San Antonio mark on bottom.
When I’m too lazy to dig, I drive along this coulee and pick them out of the bank. If I’m lucky paint still on there. I give them out to co-workers/ family because they make awesome vases. If cracked, I cut them into necklaces. Nice find!
 

Brings back memories of when I was riding my bike looking for coke bottles to turn in and get 2 cents for each one. I had a basket attached to the front of my bike, hit a curb and a bottle bounced out and hit a parked car and the driver was sitting in it. He got out asked me my name and phone number and I gave it to him. He called my Dad and wanted his car painted. My Dad had it painted and it was a big car...a Cadillac...this was 1957 I believe. Nice bottle you found!
 

Brings back memories of when I was riding my bike looking for coke bottles to turn in and get 2 cents for each one. I had a basket attached to the front of my bike, hit a curb and a bottle bounced out and hit a parked car and the driver was sitting in it. He got out asked me my name and phone number and I gave it to him. He called my Dad and wanted his car painted. My Dad had it painted and it was a big car...a Cadillac...this was 1957 I believe. Nice bottle you found!
Ouch! A Caddy paint job!
 

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