Boomer Bottles...lb

[larrybass]

Here is a small group of what I've come to call, Baby Boomer Bottles. 8) Each bottle, although not real old, came from my own past and I drank out of each one of them. All the young folks now have to remember, are these darned new fangled throw away, plastic pop containers, ya see all over the streets, especially on windy days. No cash deposit for glass bottles anymore, so now we have tons and tons of plastic trash in tons and tons of cities. More progress, in affect, they say...

I still love these cool ol' boys! 8) Any other baby boomer bottle collectors in here? Let's hear from ya then, if ya do...


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[fossis]

Drank a few myself Bass, collect a few too.

Fossis.................

 

[aa battery]

Use to love soda in the glass bottle

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

Mountain Dew in the morning.

 

[larrybass]

Thanx for the comments boys! Good to see a few folks around still, that can remember takin' more than a few swigs out of cool ol' bottles like those, eh.

Say Fossis, why not let us have a wee peek at some of your good ol' boomer bottle boys in here buddy? We Love gawkin' at other folks time capsules, in whatever flavor you've got them dressed in. 8)

To think back now lads, to just how many of these ol' puppys I traded in for the 2 cent cash refund when I was a boy, blows me away! Me and a close buddy would sometimes go a good half day, through all sorts of neighborhoods, with our eyes peeled for those bottles, until we'd have enough for the two of us to trade in for a bag of chips and another cold bottled drink for our breakfast/lunch reward, for all the hard bottle hunting work. It was a pretty kool way, we thought, for a couple of kids to earn some spending money. Especially for me and bud who never even heard about allowance until we got to high school. We lived on the other side of the tracks and you had to be a little resourceful, if you expected to hear any jingling in your pocket, no body just gave it to ya, back then. The neat part we figured, was after we were finished our breaky slash lunchy reststop, we already had the first bottle to start our money total for our suppery rest stop, planned back somewhere in our own end of town again. Come to think of it, I ate a pile of chips and drank , I'm sure, at least a small lakes worth of flavored, sugared water in my time. Maybe that's partially why I've always been thin and quite active, who knows? As buddy Shermi shared in his post, MountainDew in the morning, was like what a Tim Horton's coffee first thing in the morning is, to the younger generation of to-day.

AABattery, man I think your onto something there! Pop in glass vs pop in plastic...Hmmm Can you see Beer in glass vs Beer in plastic? Who would be drinking what there, then? 8)

later guys,

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[TreasureTales]

I remember picking up bottles for the deposit money way back in my youth, too. I still like the bottles from my childhood. I've got one or two of those painted label bottles around here somewhere. Just found a quart bottle in the desert with a label like that, it was lying right on the surface, like somebody had dug it up and then tossed it. I picked it up and was glad to have it!!! One man's trash.... as they say.

 

[lakillian]

I remember putting peanuts in my pepsi bottle! LOL And I was only about 4 hehehe. Very nice bottles!

lakillian

 

[larrybass]

Hi there TT, I was just reading your post and wondering if you had stopped there, right then, and really started looking, very carefully, around that immediate vicinity, where you got the painter? Could be a dump or someting even, close by there. Otherwise, what , somebody scored it somewhere else and then carried it all the way to where you found it, and then just tossed it on the surface after all that? You know TT, I have been lucky enough to have been in places in the past where say, a bottle like that has indeed, been just sitting there, all that time, since it was first dropped or tossed there. It's been undisturbed all those years due in a large part to the remoteness of the area I find them in. Especially after a close inspection, I can find nothing in the area that would show it has been in use by anyone in the last 40 or 50 years...No cigarett packs pull tabs, chip bags, tuna cans etc.

Hey Lakillian, that's pretty funny. That was way better than putting them in your ears, eh? One of my buds used to like to do the peanut dunk, as he used to call it, as well. The buzzy part was though, he was twelve. He was always making us laugh that guy.

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[TreasureTales]

Hi there TT, I was just reading your post and wondering if you had stopped there, right then, and really started looking, very carefully, around that immediate vicinity, where you got the painter? Could be a dump or someting even, close by there. Otherwise, what , somebody scored it somewhere else and then carried it all the way to where you found it, and then just tossed it on the surface after all that? You know TT, I have been lucky enough to have been in places in the past where say, a bottle like that has indeed, been just sitting there, all that time, since it was first dropped or tossed there. It's been undisturbed all those years due in a large part to the remoteness of the area I find them in. Especially after a close inspection, I can find nothing in the area that would show it has been in use by anyone in the last 40 or 50 years...No cigarett packs pull tabs, chip bags, tuna cans etc.

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Since you asked: The bottle I found was at a spot I had visited just a year earlier. The bottle was therefore dropped there within the previous twelve months. No dumps in the immediate area. There was an abandoned bunkhouse about a mile away, so it's conceivable that the bottle was taken from there. Believe me, had a dump or outhouse been nearby, I'd have been all over it like flies on poo. Bottles are one of my favorite things to look for when out in the boonies.

Here's a photo of the bottle. It stands just under 12"

 

[redneckinwayz]

Sure is some nice bottles there, What is the made by on the dew bottle?

 

[larrybass]

Ya TT, it probably came from the old bunkhouse then, but probably from under it. I'm guessing you've already checked out all that too, eh? Nice quart, drank a few of those years ago.

Hi redneckinwayz, I had to go and check, it's Rene & Yvette. Thanx for asking!