Last Friday, I took some 90-year-old-nearly-blind friends on a road trip up to Newport, Washington, to see one last time where they had grown up. We had a delightful lunch in the Owen’s Grocery & Deli. There I spotted this:
How many of us remember begging Mom for a nickel (a Buffalo head nickel likely) to buy an icy-cold glass bottle of Coca-Cola from a big red tin box like this and then snap off the cap right there on the front of the machine? If you do have a memory of this, please share it!
What I loved about getting sodas in glass bottles was the possibility of it being sooo cold that it would have ice crystals in it – kind of a slushy/icee before they were invented!
Oh my yes! I especially liked that one could get a deposit back. Felt like “free money”.