A vintage wet bath Coca-Cola cooler - GIF

[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