General Discussion

cherokee woman:

When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?

I was in the first grade with the son of the Methodist minister. One day, the superintendent (who was also the grammar school principal) called our teacher on the intercom and asked that that particular boy be sent to his office. The boy professed great ignorance as to the location of the office, and the teacher carefully told him how to get there. I have no idea as to what befell the boy when he got home.

I did have an interesting experience several years later, when I was teaching a Vacation Bible School class in a small church. There were five or six girls and two boys in the class; the girls all sat next to each other, and the two boys sat side by side at one end. One day, the boys would not stop talking, even after I told them to stop. I walked behind the boy who seemed to be doing the most talking, picked his chair up, and moved him to the other end of the row. Perhaps I should have let it rest there, but I told his father, not realizing that his father would administer worse discipline at home.

Johnny

cherokee woman:

Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.

Do you remember when Coca-Cola began putting 6 1/2 ounces instead of six ounces into each bottle? Do you remember playing Coke bottle poker? In college, there was a Coke machine in the basement of the building which had most of the non-physical science classrooms, and there often a stack or two of empty bottles in crates. Each player would pick a bottle up, and we would look at the name of the bottling plant molded into the bottom, and the holder of the bottle for the plant farthest away would win the round.

Johnny

Deggesty:

Do you remember when Coca-Cola began putting 6 1/2 ounces instead of six ounces into each bottle?

Speaking of Coke and their product....50 plus years ago, while being in the far east, I came across a Coke bottle in a field {if I remember correctly}, and it was square shaped.....!!  Not the hour glass type design.  At that point, I thought, wow, I must be really far from home.....

Modelcar:

Speaking of Coke and their product....50 plus years ago, while being in the far east, I came across a Coke bottle in a field {if I remember correctly}, and it was square shaped.....!!  Not the hour glass type design.  At that point, I thought, wow, I must be really far from home.....

And we thought that when we found a bottle made for a California plant we had found one from far away. I wonder--did some oriental packaging expert decree that square bottles should be used despite the difficulty of holding one?

It sounds as though you were out sporting about while I was, as I thought, preparing for my life's work. Little did I know that I would make it halfway to one of my ambitions when in high school--railroad conductor; I ended up with 31 1/4 years in the semiconductor industry.

Johnny

Modelcar:

Deggesty:

Do you remember when Coca-Cola began putting 6 1/2 ounces instead of six ounces into each bottle?

 

Speaking of Coke and their product....50 plus years ago, while being in the far east, I came across a Coke bottle in a field {if I remember correctly}, and it was square shaped.....!!  Not the hour glass type design.  At that point, I thought, wow, I must be really far from home.....

My neighbors Esso Station in New Jersey had one of those old fashioned coke chest-type vending machines...in went your nickel lift up the lid, and you slid your bottle of coke down the track and out.......

Deggesty:

Modelcar:

Speaking of Coke and their product....50 plus years ago, while being in the far east, I came across a Coke bottle in a field {if I remember correctly}, and it was square shaped.....!!  Not the hour glass type design.  At that point, I thought, wow, I must be really far from home.....

And we thought that when we found a bottle made for a California plant we had found one from far away. I wonder--did some oriental packaging expert decree that square bottles should be used despite the difficulty of holding one?

It sounds as though you were out sporting about while I was, as I thought, preparing for my life's work. Little did I know that I would make it halfway to one of my ambitions when in high school--railroad conductor; I ended up with 31 1/4 years in the semiconductor industry.

Johnny

I remember the change of bottle sizes, nickel bottles, chest type and upright coolers for them, but I sure can not remember the "square" type bottles.

(if they were before 1950, I Sure wouldn't have any idea!)

And yes, I/we had fun trying to figure out how far that bottle had come from.

As early as 11 years ago when I first started working for a local business in my neighborhood, Howes Oil Company, their break room still had an old coke machine that dispensed pop in 10 ounce bottles, but they went to 12 ounce cans shortly after I started working for them. At Howes Oil Company a can of pop is only a quarter and one of the guys there keeps a coffee cup full of quarters on his desk, so in actuallity I pay nothing for a coke.

In the late 1960's there was a grocery store in downtown Estes Park, Colorado, and I think the year was 1968 when two of my brothers and I were visiting some cousins of ours in Estes Park. We went behind this store and found a huge stack of empty, wooden pop bottle crates, and two of my cousins and I threw every one of them into the Big Thompson River!! My cousin Mike Berryhill and I still talk about this little incident to this day!!! Several years later one of his sisters took me back to the back of this same store, but unfortunately there were no wooden bottle crates to toss into the Big Thompson.

Ray     ooo    ooo ooOOOOOo

Good Saturday morning! The coffee is about finished brewing and I've mixed a fresh batch of orange juice. Breakfast this morning will be fairly simple, I've laid out a generous assortment of donuts, rolls and bear claws. Enjoy! 

Ray     ooo    ooo ooOOOOOo

Let's close this thread, o.k?  I started the new one for August last night.  Look for it on the thread list page.