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« Reply #30 on: October 07, 2009, 05:54:50 pm » |
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Does anyone remeber taking a 6.5 oz Coke bottle and putting a bag of peanuts in it? Please tell me that wasn't just some weird thing we did.  I did....but I grew up in MS too.  |
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« Reply #31 on: October 07, 2009, 06:02:12 pm » |
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I hear ya! Remember the trays that fitted onto a couple of inches of window and basically defied gravity? And those real glass mugs had been kept in the freezer so when you grabbed the handle of your float glass, you almost lost a couple of layers of skin prying your fingers off. Man, do I want one of those now!!
I don't know how many A&Ws still exist, but there is one in Bartlesville, OK...and the last time I was in there, they had their mugs in the freezer, just like they used to.  |
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To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.
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« Reply #32 on: October 07, 2009, 06:03:07 pm » |
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Does anyone remeber taking a 6.5 oz Coke bottle and putting a bag of peanuts in it? Please tell me that wasn't just some weird thing we did. I never did that, but knew people that did...so it spread at least as far as northern Kansas. |
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To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.
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« Reply #33 on: October 07, 2009, 06:47:40 pm » |
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I don't know how many A&Ws still exist, but there is one in Bartlesville, OK...and the last time I was in there, they had their mugs in the freezer, just like they used to. We have an A&W/Long John Silvers over in Merritt Island. If you ask nice you can get a frosted mug. |
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« Reply #34 on: October 08, 2009, 12:07:22 am » |
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Growing up, my grandparents owned an automobile salvage yard & used parts business. Many of the old cars that came in, had trunks full of treasures, that included pop bottles. My grandma had a special brush, just so I could get them clean. We would take them to the supermarket and trade them for cash.
This was in Viola, IL, population 800. I lived in the same town until the 2nd grade. Like I've said before, I'm no city kid.
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« Reply #35 on: October 08, 2009, 12:08:16 am » |
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Jim Crow soda machine  That's racist.  |
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« Reply #36 on: October 08, 2009, 01:17:26 am » |
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The barber shop in my neighborhood used to have an old Coke machine. There was also a pull-button cigarette vending machine and a blue marlin hanging on the wall, but the owner took all that stuff with him when he retired or his family got it when he passed away.  |
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« Reply #37 on: October 08, 2009, 02:21:14 am » |
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The barber shop in my neighborhood used to have an old Coke machine. There was also a pull-button cigarette vending machine and a blue marlin hanging on the wall, but the owner took all that stuff with him when he retired or his family got it when he passed away. I remember those type of machines. They were still around in the 70's. I can also getting things out of gumball machines like a miniature working cigarette lighter, of a small skull that would "puff" on tiny cigarettes. |
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« Reply #39 on: October 08, 2009, 04:20:01 am » |
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When I lived in Masshole, getting a tonic and grinder was the thing to do when hungry.
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« Reply #40 on: October 08, 2009, 06:04:05 am » |
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I asked for some ideas on where to find good online books to read, you know-free, and got a LOT of responses. FReepers do that. |
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« Reply #41 on: October 08, 2009, 06:48:14 am » |
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Wow. That was pretty cool. Everyone has an opinion when it comes to coke. |
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« Reply #42 on: October 08, 2009, 07:00:19 am » |
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We have an old store here in a residential area that is truly an anachronism. They even have some stuff on the shelves from the early 60s to the early 70s ( hard goods, not food). I, too, was one of those kids that went around collecting soda bottles, returning them for their deposit and buying candy, soda and balsa-wood airplanes.
Dixie, it was a common sight to see people put peanuts in their soda, usually Coke or RC.
There WAS an A&W stand on one of the street corners not too far from here. Its been torn down now and it makes me sad every time I pass that corner. My mom and I used to stop there on the way back from Lake Texoma and often got a burger and a float.
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« Reply #43 on: October 08, 2009, 09:42:39 am » |
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We have an old store here in a residential area that is truly an anachronism. They even have some stuff on the shelves from the early 60s to the early 70s ( hard goods, not food). I, too, was one of those kids that went around collecting soda bottles, returning them for their deposit and buying candy, soda and balsa-wood airplanes.
There was a store a few years ago near Kemp TX, might still be there called "The Store". lol. They actually made their own sausage and biscuit sandwiches in the mornings, quite good. |
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« Reply #44 on: October 08, 2009, 06:56:22 pm » |
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The barber shop in my neighborhood used to have an old Coke machine. There was also a pull-button cigarette vending machine and a blue marlin hanging on the wall, but the owner took all that stuff with him when he retired or his family got it when he passed away. There was one of those pull handle cigarette machines in the basement of my freshman dormitory. Some of my fellow scholars got in trouble once for turning it on its head and shaking it in an effort to get some free cigarettes. No cigarettes would come out. They could have broken the glass front of the machine and taken cigarettes, but they were not common drunks, they were drunken scholars. The machine held onto its cigarettes, but lots and lots of quarters cascaded out. The scholars set the machine back on its feet, and used the quarters to buy its cigarettes, which at that time, I think, were one quarter per pack. That seemed a more honorable transaction, anyway. The vendor disagreed, and called campus police, which caused a lot of temporary trouble. I suspect cigarette vending machines are rare in today's college dormitories. Instead, dorms have become co-ed suburbs of Gomorrah. Given that choice, we would have given up the machines in a flash. |
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