Coca-cola bottle

Geo-TH,In · Jul 16, 2015

Did you know the coca-cola bottle is 100 years old?
100 years old

60 acre hillside · Jul 16, 2015

Wow! I cannot think where I put mine. Must be valuable!

Steve@Advance · Jul 16, 2015

I remember the old returnable Coke bottles used to have a city and state molded into the bottom. Never really knew what that meant, if that's where the bottle was made or if it was the bottling plant it was destined for.

fixerupper · Jul 16, 2015

How much did a bottle of Coke cost in those days? I remember dime Coke 60 years ago. Dad talks about nickel pop. Back then a bottle of Coke was a once or twice a year luxury. A few months ago dad was reminiscing (he's 90) about his childhood. He was raised in town, and he was telling me about an old widow neighbor lady who would send him to the drug store with a dime, I'm pretty sure it was a dime, for two bottles of Coke. He would bring back the two bottles and would sit with her on her porch while they took small sips from their Cokes to make the Coke last as long as possible.

sotxbill · Jul 16, 2015

The ones from college station always had "open other end" on them... Texas A&M joke.

MARK ROBKE · Jul 16, 2015

In 1971,when we were tearing down our barns to make way for I-275,(I was 13),we found an old wooden pepsi bottle crate that said,'Pepsi-a nickle drink-worth a dime!'Unfortunately,we burnt it up with scrap wood.Mark

dr sportster · Jul 16, 2015

That's the one designed by Raymond Lowey.

James Howell · Jul 16, 2015

Best I can remember the price was 10 cents.

There was a small store about 200 yards from our home.

Would walk the ditch on the side of the road and collect 5 bottles.

Redeemed the bottles for 2 cents each.

Just enough to buy a cold drink from a large, open-top, drink cooler filled with ice.

Sure could use a cold Coke right now.

Spook · Jul 16, 2015

i275 in Michigan? I grew up near there.

wilson ind · Jul 16, 2015

where bottle made was common to play simple game called travel. Winner had bottle made furthest from home. I believe fellow named ROOT designed and help patend on the design of bottle. He was connected to Terre Haute Ind bottling plant. Later Roots department store on Wabash ave in town was a major part of Terre Haute shopping for years till Malls became popular. Money for the store was from the bottle.

JD Seller · Jul 16, 2015

James I can remember dime Coke too. I also picked up bottles around my Grand Fathers blacksmith shop to buy "pop" with. Zero candy bars where also a dime as well. So I would have to pickup/find ten bottles for a pop and candy bar.

These were the twelve ounce bottles too. I can remember when Pepsi came out with the 16 ounce bottles and we all though how big they were. LOL Now you see these 64 ounce cups at the convenience stores.

led · Jul 16, 2015

Coke,7UP ect machines went from 5 to 7 cents in the early 50's .
Led

fixerupper · Jul 16, 2015

My dad's brother ran the local golf course in the 1940's through to the early 70's. As far back as I can remember which is the late 50's there was an upright 10 cent 7up machine outside the clubhouse. I would look under the 7up machine for a stray dime and on occasion I would find one to buy a bottle with. I can still hear the good sound of the bottle coming down. My uncle would sometimes give me a bottle of 7up for stocking the machine. He also carried a local brand of pop, or soda called Dodger made in Ft Dodge Ia. Does anyone from Iowa remember that name?

rustyfarmall · Jul 16, 2015

10 cents per 12 ounce bottle out of a vending machine, and the empty bottle was worth 2 cents.

Geo-TH,In · Jul 16, 2015

A nickle at the JD dealer in the early 50's. And a nickle would also get you a hand full of peanuts. I went to town with my dad, especially to the JD dealer.

old · Jul 16, 2015

Way back when I lived in Winfield KS I can remember pedaling around on my bicycle picking up pop bottles and turning them in for 3 cents each and having all the soda and candy bars I wanted and then some. A 6 once bottle of coke was 5 cents and a candy bar was also a nickle

Phil-mar Farms · Jul 16, 2015

My Dad told me pre 1919 they would pickup whiskey bottles. They got a penny a bottle at their uncles tavern because back then you could refill them.

Pair-a-dice farm · Jul 16, 2015

This is probably not 100 years old, it may be over 50. I find theses every so often around where the old barn was.

JerryS · Jul 16, 2015

This is what they looked like before: the bottle on the left has, as Steve@Advance has pointed out, raised lettering on the bottom rim indicating that the bottle was made for the San Angelo, Texas, bottling company. It does not have the raised Coca Cola script at the bottom of the neck, but it does have a Texas star.

The other bottle has the name of my town, Shreveport, Louisiana on the bottom rim, but it also has the Coke script at the top. Apparently the individual bottlers had some leeway as to how they wanted their bottles designed.

I too remember the nickle cokes and the various reconfigurations and regenerations of the vending machines. Remember the ones where you had to snake the neck of the bottle through a series of long slots to get it to the release chute? I believe this was Nehi's machine; they offered lots of flavors in 12 oz. bottles. If your flavor was situated between other flavors, you had to do a Rubic's Cube maneuver to get your drink in the right position.

Coke's machine was proprietary to its own bottles, as I recall. At some point it was reconfigured to dispense the taller 12-oz. hourglass bottle. I am supposing the 12-oz. size was offered in response to competition from the larger drinks--RC, Nehi, Big Chief, etc., which were already in 12 oz. Coke, Grapette, and Dr. Pepper originally had just 6 oz., I think.

MARK ROBKE · Jul 16, 2015

Northern Kentucky,community of Taylor Mill,just south of Covington,Ky.to be exact.UNRECOGNIZABLE now days as to how and what it used to be.Mark

Steve@Advance · Jul 16, 2015

All my earliest memories they were a dime, that would have been early '60s. There was an old lumber yard, and an auto supply that still had nickel machines. They were a perk for customers though, not many people knew they were there. Remember they had a big metal handle on front, put your nickle in, push down on the handle. All it would sell were the 6 oz bottles.

Blackhole49 · Jul 16, 2015

My machine(1962 Vendo) will give you an 8oz bottle(or a long neck beer) for 20 cents.

Spook · Jul 16, 2015

(quoted from post at 12:27:28 07/16/15) Northern Kentucky,community of Taylor Mill,just south of Covington,Ky.to be exact.UNRECOGNIZABLE now days as to how and what it used to be.Mark

Different I275 - I am from Michigan, I275 is the western ring road around Detroit.

Cory Schmidt · Jul 16, 2015

I heard someplace that a John Deere Sales trick at one time, to show how smooth the two bangers were, used coke bottles like that. Jacked up the tractor and set it on four bottles, one under each wheel,(the shape allowed the bottle to hold weight) the tractor was then started.

Geo-TH,In · Jul 16, 2015

Bill, I remember the Root store. Didn't know the store and Coca-cola bottle was connected. Of course, you are older than I.

James Howell · Jul 16, 2015

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gene bender · Jul 16, 2015

Yes also in IOWA CITY there was GRAFS best Ginger Ale ever bottled still remember the "smoke" that came out when opened. Then also SO GRAPE.

gene bender · Jul 16, 2015

Not here Coke was 5cents from their machines till late 50s Nickle Coke and Planters peanuts what a treat drink a little and then fill with the peanuts.

J.Wondergem · Jul 16, 2015

I remember the nickel Pepsi. I think that the gas station a couple of miles from home didn't handle Coke. This would have been in the late 40s. That was something when Dad brought me to Burn's Sunoco station for a Pepsi. Start sipping on it and it would come back out of your nose. Still have a Pepsi now and again, but it stays down now.

jm. · Jul 16, 2015

Mid 50s my folks were running a small country store. When drinks (coke RC & Pepsi) went from 5 cents to 6 cents the folks boycotted and refused to buy drinks for about three months. Drinks sales just fell off to nothing. Took awhile for the shock to wear off. I sold two cases of old coke bottles and good wood cases the other day for 50 bucks. All the bottles had cities on the bottom and were in good shape.

MARK ROBKE · Jul 16, 2015

I-275 here goes around greater Cincinnati.Mark

auggy53 · Jul 16, 2015

i can remember buying a 6 ounce coke from an up right machine that had a lever or handle that rotated ccw about 90 degress . the 6 oz. coke was 5 cents . i also remember the up right machine with the door on it that gave you free pepsi if you had an opener and a cup ,

like you didnt do it too ....lol

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