Hi:
The post about Coco Cola postal board advertisement bought some memories.
Remember:
1. Grape aide (great taste but small bottles)
2. Sun Crist
3. 7 up
4. Pepi Cola
5. Yahoo (?) Chocolate Drink
6. Upper 10
7. Frosty Root Beer (short round bottle)
8. Hires Root Beer
10. Vernon Ginger Ale
11. Canada Dry
12. Sun Aide
13. ??

1. Grapette
2. Sunkist

?

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Well, that's a trip down memory lane. Remember Orange Crush? I remember when Cokes were 6 cents in the machine.

I remember 5 cents and 10, but have never seen any for 6 cents?? Out of a vending machine??

Three two-cent pieces...

They had vending machines in the 1800s?

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Five cents and you got a penny back for the bottle.

Nehi assorted fruit flavors, grape, orange, strawberry etc

Royal Crown cola

Barq's root beer and cream soda

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I have never seen or heard of any changer that would take pennies. I guess I'm not too old [or young] to learn something new. As evidenced by the posts, there must have been machines that took pennies. Working in the business for the last 33 years, I thought I knew better. This forum is great as the knowledge you pick up amazing!

We had a 2 cent deposit for a 5 cent drink.

Stores paid 2 cents for bottles we picked up also. Guess that was the start of recycling?

Edit: Double Cola brand

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Yep, I've told folks about the vending machines that took 6 cents (nickel and a penny) they don't seem to want to believe me either, I remember we lived down the street from the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla, and there was a park next to it, had hot dog vendors and vending machines that took 6 cents for a drink
olcop

All you disbelievers and naysayers back, back, in the corner. Behave. Sit still don't make me use this whip.

Am I mean? No, this was my 2nd grade teacher back when you could take 1 nickel and 1 penny, put it in the red Coke machine, push down on the lever and get a 8 OZ coke. It popped out at about 33 degrees and would literally take your breath on a hot day.

For those that have to see or touch an object to believe it is real, that would be those with an underdeveloped potential in believing others, report to the principles office. I will instruct him to use the 2 handed paddle that the shop teacher drilled full of holes for maximum velocity.

Jimmy I remember most of the sodas. What I now know is that was the best time of my life and I was too wet behind the ears, too young, too inexperienced and totally lacking in maturity to enjoy it. And it was because I kept my eyes glued to the ground looking for stray nickles and pennies.......

Way back in the mid '70's, when I bought this small ranch, I was rootin thu the old sheds and buildings and found a TON of old soda bottles. Still a nickel in those days so I sold them. Still a few floating around but no one buys them now.

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Went into a store on the other side of town and saw a couple of bottles of Moxie. I didn' know they still made it; last time I saw any was when I was a teenager and my father brouht some home to show me.

When did they stop making Vin Fizz?

The Mini-Max grocery store I worked at after school in 1963 and 1964 had the 6 cent coke machines and two cent deposit on bottles. We had one part time employee that all he did was arrange and stack various glass bottles that were returned for deposit and get them sorted so the various venders could pick them up.

7-Up is still made, so is Pepsi, Yahoo, Hires Root Beer, Vernors Ginger Ale (good stuff) and Canada Dry. I still remember them because I see them in the stores. Just sayin.

The first Coke machine I used was 6 cents.
Or you could get one from the drink box that was 5 cents..
they sit in cool water.

Anyone remember RED HOG.

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They still sell YooHoo..

After my father returned from WW2, he and my uncle started a bottling plant.
Their first product was Squirt.
I literally grew up in that plant. Can still recall every detail of the process.


They added Dr. Pepper soon thereafter:

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Grapette was wonderful stuff. Intense grape flavor, much more than Nehi.

Orange Crush wasn't dyed vivid orange as it was later. It was sold in ribbed brown bottles. Tasted a hell of a lot better then.

RC and Double Colas, of course, though I seem to recall that Double came along a bit later.

There was a limited brand of ginger ale, Crescent, that I only tasted in East Tennessee, and only a couple of times. Fine ginger bite, more like Schweppes than Canada Dry.

Dr. Pepper was pretty big in my long-ago boyhood.

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Lime Ricky

Good Lord I love Grape Nehi I havent had any since the 70s. I alsi like Triple XXX Rootbeer, Hires Rootbeer (made in Fredericksburg, TX, A&W Eootbeer, Delaware Punch, etc.

This might "date" people but, anyone remember bottle caps lined with cork?

Id forgotten about that :-)

I started at Kroger in 1967 as a bagboy. The job we most coveted was working bottles. You were in a chainlink cage behind the store, hot in the summer, cold in the winter and you could smoke, even take your shirt & tie off in the heat. One of the worst jobs was stocking the soft drink aisle. Heavy and they didn't ride good on hand carts. When you dropped one it was a major mess and shame on you if you loaded sloppy and let a cart turn over.

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I think you mean Yoo-Hoo?

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As kids, we used to pry the cork out in one piece. Then put the bottle cap on the front of our t-shirt, put the cork back in the cap from the inside of the t-shirt.

A lot of the drinks named above are still being made. Mostly the original companies were bought out years ago, some more than once. Some of the drinks taste similar to the original ones, some not. Barq's was purchased by Coca Cola and is still being produced. It is very popular in the South, especially Mississippi where it was invented. Walmart bought out Grapette. It 's original home office was Camden, Arkansas. Maybe that has something to do with who bought it. Although you won't find it in the little bottles, the two liter offering tastes very similar to the original. Cokes and other soft drinks went up right after Castro took over Cuba and closed down the sugar trade with the U.S. The first price increase I saw was on a six cent Coke machine. It took a nickel and a penny and to take the bottle off the premises you had to pay a two cent deposit. When I was a kid I had a newspaper route. I had big baskets on my bike and while I was throwing papers if I saw a pop bottle I picked it up and redeemed it at a local neighborhood grocery.

I remember 12oz. bottles in a cooler filled with water that was ice cold. all the flavors mentioned previously except for strawberry soda. don't remember the name on the bottle. anybody heard of dodger cola? it was big in our area in the late 50's and 60's. same company bottled a soda called flip. was like 7up with a grapefruit taste added.

In 1960 our family drove back to Iowa from California for our first visit with my Mom's side of the family. I was 7 years old and one of the things about the trip I remember is being surprised and not understanding why things like 7-Up ("You like it, it likes you"... remember that motto on the old bottles?) disappeared after you got to the other side of the Rockies, and "Bubble Up" is what you found instead.

Others I remember are Mug root beer - Hires, Orange Crush - Sun Crest Orange.

This might be too regional, but does anyone remember Bireley's or Nesbitt's ?

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SWCA #1830 SWHF #222

When I was growing up there were more regionals than now and we had Vess and Billion Bubble Bottling who did a lot of local flavors. What was the grapefruit flavored drink in the 60's?

Bireley's non carbonated drinks were pretty good.



Flavors I remember were orange, grape, grapefruit and chocolate.

My selection was a ice cold grape.

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How about Kickapoo joy juice?

"It Makes You Root Harder!"

I believe that was the slogan. I couldn't believe it when I saw your post. Many years ago I used to live in Arkansas with my then future ex. We went to San Antonio to visit my folks & as a joke gift I took them a six pack of Red Hog. This was, as near as I can remember, in 1986.The last time I was in San Antonio visiting them about a month ago, I was digging through one of their fridges looking for something & I found two bottles of Red Hog from that same six pack! I couldn't believe it. They just never drank it. I used to love the stuff because it reminded me of Big Red(which I grew up drinking in Texas)except as I remember Red Hog had a more intense flavor.

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I remember Squirt, which is weird because I usually can't remember squat. It was good stuff. I've still got one of the original bottles with the twisted shape.

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Anybody remember Simba?

Grew up drinking Blenheim's sodas. Their ginger ale was the absolute best. I remember Charles Kuralt doing a piece on their factory and his reaction to the ginger ale.

I can still remember to this day, 50 some odd years later how wonderful that first drink of ice cold Coca Cola was.

Wish they were not so bad for you, I could drink a lot of them.

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Well, I am so old that I still remember going into Dick's Sweet Shoppe and sitting at that long counter and having them make you a cherry coke using syrup and seltzer water.

Dick's also took in soda bottles and as a kid I remember that they used to pile them out back of the shop. We would turn in the empties at the front, get our money and then go around back, grab a handful more from the pile and run back to the front for more change. Once we had enough money we would order a coke (vanilla or cherry) and a cheeseburger and french fries. Somehow now I think that they knew what we were doing.

Sometimes we would go across the street to the candy store. Red shoelace licorice, wax lips, wax bottles full of sugar water, and my favorite, red hot dollars. Red hot dollars were 2 for a penny. Fifty candies for a quarter.

Man, those were the days.

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"Makes thirst a joy".

Yep, sure do, they didn't twist off either, had to use a bottle opener.
olcop

The best sodas of the 40s and 50s were mixed at the fountain. Now they are nearly all soda, little syrup.

On reaching a certain age, everything that taste good is "Bad" for you.

In the early 50's I worked at a drug store soda fountain. We made all of the drinks from scratch with syrup, ice and charged water. My favorite was Coke, just the syrup....... nothing else. Did that damage my mind!?? Oh well, now that I'm an older f***, it probably fits right in with this crowd.
Dave

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Fire Chief, Retired

I remember Barq's root beer in Phoenix during WWII. We could get it at our little neighborhood grocery store - as I remember, it was a nickel and came in bottles. That was my first taste of root beer, and I loved it. My mom introduced me to root beer floats at a soda fountain not far from where we lived, and next to ice cold beer, it's still my favorite drink.

I also remember a chocolate flavored creme drink - it was non-carbonated; I'm not sure of the maker, but it might have been Nehi, or maybe Bireley's. When my dad and I went out to the desert botanical gardens in Phoenix to take pictures of the flora there in the '50s, a vending machine at the garden's headquarters building had it. I couldn't get it anywhere else, and I'd always make a beeline to that vending machine in the summer. It was great stuff, and tasted like a chocolate shake.

John

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The only reason why I even know about that, is back when I was collecting soft drink collectables (about 16 years ago) I walked into an antique store and saw a box of them. They were $5 each, and I picked out the three I liked most which--being its been 15 or so years since I last looked at them, I think each had some=kind of a Western kind of image on them--like an Indian, or cowboy hat or something of that nature.

I cant stand the drink now--since they stopped using sugar. If they went back to pure cane sugar--id drink the stuff like its water.

Sad thing is they no longer have that Rootbeer here--nor Frosty's Rootbeer. Frosty's is my all-time favorite Rootbeer.

Though ive never had it--I heard Moxie tastes like Rootbeer.