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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 14410" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I remember the orange soda too! I don't think I could even FORCE myself to drink it now! When my dads' family got together at my grandparents' house for a barbeque, they would always have two big wash tubs full of ice - one had beer for the men and the other had soft drinks in bottles for the kids - we'd always get either orange or grape!</p><p></p><p>And Kathy, I had forgotten about taking the bottles to the store for the deposit! It was like our "payday loans" if we ran out of money before allowance day! We got 2 cents for the little ones and a nickel for the big ones! We'd go all over the neighborhood looking for them. We'd get nasty looks for bringing in the old scratched up dirty ones that we dug up in the alley, but the lady in the store would give us the 2 cents anyway ... usually we'd exchange it for penny candies in big glass jars!</p><p></p><p>I was just thinking about all this and, when I was a kid, I never realized that I was probably buying something that would be worth a lot of money today ... with my crummy little 35 cents allowance! We got our allowance on Saturdays, and for the longest time, I would go straight to the store and spend 25 cents of it all at once! I would buy a package of Twinkies (10 cents) and a copy of the Saturday Evening Post (15 cents) and I still had a whole dime left! I was one happy camper! I would lay on the floor eating Twinkies and reading the Saturday Evening Post! I loved the jokes ... and the Norman Rockwell covers! Would have saved them, but who knew!</p><p></p><p> :blush:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 14410, member: 1883"] I remember the orange soda too! I don't think I could even FORCE myself to drink it now! When my dads' family got together at my grandparents' house for a barbeque, they would always have two big wash tubs full of ice - one had beer for the men and the other had soft drinks in bottles for the kids - we'd always get either orange or grape! And Kathy, I had forgotten about taking the bottles to the store for the deposit! It was like our "payday loans" if we ran out of money before allowance day! We got 2 cents for the little ones and a nickel for the big ones! We'd go all over the neighborhood looking for them. We'd get nasty looks for bringing in the old scratched up dirty ones that we dug up in the alley, but the lady in the store would give us the 2 cents anyway ... usually we'd exchange it for penny candies in big glass jars! I was just thinking about all this and, when I was a kid, I never realized that I was probably buying something that would be worth a lot of money today ... with my crummy little 35 cents allowance! We got our allowance on Saturdays, and for the longest time, I would go straight to the store and spend 25 cents of it all at once! I would buy a package of Twinkies (10 cents) and a copy of the Saturday Evening Post (15 cents) and I still had a whole dime left! I was one happy camper! I would lay on the floor eating Twinkies and reading the Saturday Evening Post! I loved the jokes ... and the Norman Rockwell covers! Would have saved them, but who knew! [img]:blush:[/img] [/QUOTE]
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