Coca-Cola Using Cocaine

[bersaguy]

Back when I was a kid about 10 years old a buddy and I new an older man that let us hunt on his land. He was single as his wife had passed. One day he asked Dave and I if we could help him move some stuff and he would pay us. We needed some money for ammo so we said ok. We were shocked when he opened the double doors to his garage. All we saw was wooden cases of those small returnable coca cola soft drinks. He ask us if we would stack all of them 4 high on that side of the garage. Dave was a foot taller than I was so he had to do most of the heavy lifting but with taking breaks we finally got them all moved. 65 cases of 24 bottles to a case moved. He needed to move them because he had a truck bringing him more. After he paid us and thanked us we left and on our way to town for ammo about a mile from the old mans house a coca cola truck passed us going to his house. We never did find out what he was doing with it and to be honest we didn't want to know.

[Garufa]

2 minutes ago, bersaguy said:

Back when I was a kid about 10 years old a buddy and I new an older man that let us hunt on his land. He was single as his wife had passed. One day he asked Dave and I if we could help him move some stuff and he would pay us. We needed some money for ammo so we said ok. We were shocked when he opened the double doors to his garage. All we saw was wooden cases of those small returnable coca cola soft drinks. He ask us if we would stack all of them 4 high on that side of the garage. Dave was a foot taller than I was so he had to do most of the heavy lifting but with taking breaks we finally got them all moved. 65 cases of 24 bottles to a case moved. He needed to move them because he had a truck bringing him more. After he paid us and thanked us we left and on our way to town for ammo about a mile from the old mans house a coca cola truck passed us going to his house. We never did find out what he was doing with it and to be honest we didn't want to know.

Some folks like Co-cola.  I remember those glass bottles and wooden crates and having to move a few myself as a kid.  Crazy heavy but built to last.

[BigK]

5 hours ago, Garufa said:

Some folks like Co-cola.  I remember those glass bottles and wooden crates and having to move a few myself as a kid.  Crazy heavy but built to last.

A neighbor paid us to clean out a garage, so he could sell his house once. He told us we could have anything we wanted from the garage. Back in the corner we found what must've been 3 dozen wooden crates full of empty Coca Cola bottles. Even split 3 ways it felt like a landslide back in te 70s.

[bersaguy]

10 hours ago, BigK said:

A neighbor paid us to clean out a garage, so he could sell his house once. He told us we could have anything we wanted from the garage. Back in the corner we found what must've been 3 dozen wooden crates full of empty Coca Cola bottles. Even split 3 ways it felt like a landslide back in te 70s.

I don't know if they paid for deposits if you returned them to a store in the 70's but they did in the 60's and Dave and I would go looing on the sides of roads to find them and turn them in for the deposit. Ammo funds....LOL

[BigK]

3 minutes ago, bersaguy said:

I don't know if they paid for deposits if you returned them to a store in the 70's but they did in the 60's and Dave and I would go looing on the sides of roads to find them and turn them in for the deposit. Ammo funds....LOL

I don't remember if it was a nickel or a dime per bottle, but we had to make a LOT of trips to cash them all in and the store was around a mile and half from where we lived. Mr Gordon, who owned the store, threatened to call our parents if he found out we didn't come by them honestly. I doubt anyone had ever returned that many in such a short time. I'm embarrassed to admit most of my gains got fed into a Donkey Kong machine.

[Links2k]

25 minutes ago, BigK said:

I don't remember if it was a nickel or a dime per bottle 

If I recall correctly, it was a nickel for the small bottles and a dime for the large bottles. 

[BigK]

56 minutes ago, Links2k said:

If I recall correctly, it was a nickel for the small bottles and a dime for the large bottles. 

You're probably right, I was think a dime was the 16 oz bottles, but it's been a minute and I wasn't sure. Thanks

[bersaguy]

YEP!!  It was a nickel and a dime and Dave and I split the funds and both of us bought ammo to hunt with. Back then a box of 4.10 was $1.89 and a box of 20 gauge was $2.09 and a box of 22 lr was 89 cents. We saved up all summer between cutting lawns and hunting bottles we could normally afford enough ammo to hunt all season long.