[Sivad]

Back in the 60s there was a neighborhood store
in our little town where we would take our
deposit glass soda bottles. Prices evolved but
I think at one time the 12 and 16 Oz bottles
were 3 cents and the quart bottles were 10 cents.
We bought candy with our earnings and took our
time making our choices. That would piss off
the Chinese store owner and he would run us out
of the place. We called him ‘Dirty Ernie’ but
I don’t remember why. We were a little outside our
own neighborhood so he didn’t know our folks.

[jonrick46]

You described my exact experience with the glass bottles. We didn’t have the paranoid Chinese store owner. That store had the best candy. My brother collected the baseball card chewing gum.

[Viking2002]

Similar to the local liquor store in my youth. We got 2 cents back on every glass beer bottle we'd return. A buddy and I could score a six pack of Iron City and a pack of Marlboro Reds for under three bucks. If we could pony up a Lincoln between the two of us, we'd be set all night.

[alexander_busek]

Back in the 60s there was a neighborhood store in our little town where we would take our deposit glass soda bottles. Prices evolved but I think at one time the 12 and 16 Oz bottles were 3 cents and the quart bottles were 10 cents. We bought candy with our earnings and took our time making our choices. That would piss off the Chinese store owner and he would run us out of the place. We called him ‘Dirty Ernie’ but I don’t remember why. We were a little outside our own neighborhood so he didn’t know our folks.

Thanks for that little stroll down Memory Lane! It's for little nuggets like that that I click on articles in the Astronomy forum.

Regards,

[SunkenCiv]

:’) There was no bottle bill in Michigan until the late 1960s or so; prior to that time each brand distributor put deposits on the bottles (all glass) which were (usually) returned, washed, refilled, and sold again. When the plastic one-way bottles were first tried, it was cheaper to buy the glass and throw tthem out than it was to get the disposables. :’D