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Originally Posted by SCadaddle
"Collecting bottles and cans for which you could get some real money for back then."
As a kid, myself and my friends would scour the new neighborhoods being built looking for coke bottles left behind by the carpenters. I think the deposit on the bottle was 5 cents, then when it went up to 10 cents, we were rolling in the dough after cashing them in at the local convenience store. Enough to buy a coke or gum, or maybe ride the bike to the hobby shop for a model airplane kit.
It was a real genuine micro-economy back then. We learned to do some work for our rewards. Too bad all that is gone nowadays.
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This. We did the same thing with soda bottles. This was in the late 70s when an apt was built at the end of our street. After school when all the workers were gone, we picked all the bottles and walked down to the liquor store and bought candies and chips with money made from our collection. Good times.
I think bra less was the trend in the early to mid 70s? I may have been a little too young to noticed that