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Originally Posted by oldman45
Most here will be too young to remember but a lot of kids picked up spend money literally. Prior to the 1960's there was a deposit on glass soft drink bottles. It got up to about a nickel a bottle before they stopped using glass bottles..
Considering I could get into the movie theatre for a quarter and get a box of popcorn for a dime, picking up 10 bottles would get me a movie, fed and a profit.
Back then people tossed the bottles onto the shoulder of the road moreso than beer cans now.
Even adult could be seen out picking up bottles.
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Bottle returns were the money as a kid in Michigan back in the '70s. We'd get a dime per pop or beer bottle/can and had a whole route mapped out we'd hit every other day, picking through dumpsters behind all the bars, party stores and bump shops and fill wagons full of returnables. 10 bucks split two ways was pretty good money for a couple hour's work for a couple 10-year-olds back then.
Nowadays it's still a dime a bottle but a dime sure doesn't go as far 30 years later.