Old Packaging

[bcla]

I'm old enough to remember when soft drinks came in 16 oz glass bottles with a deposit. A six pack might be on sale for 88 cents (plus tax) but each bottle had a 10 cent deposit.

 

[Dan Murphy]

How they are made: a sped up video from Syracuse.com

Amazing

 

[Dan Murphy]

I'm old enough to remember when soft drinks came in 16 oz glass bottles with a deposit. A six pack might be on sale for 88 cents (plus tax) but each bottle had a 10 cent deposit.

Well, I am much older than you. I remember 6 1/2 oz bottles, then 12 oz after that (to compete with Pepsi's larger 12 oz bottle)

Pepsi advertising jingle...

During the Great Depression, Pepsi gained popularity following the introduction in 1934 of a 12-ounce bottle. Prior to that, Pepsi and Coca-Cola sold their drinks in 6.5-ounce servings for about $0.05 a bottle. With a radio advertising campaign featuring the popular jingle "Pepsi-Cola hits the spot / Twelve full ounces, that's a lot / Twice as much for a nickel, too / Pepsi-Cola is the drink for you" – Pepsi encouraged price-conscious consumers to double the volume their nickels could purchase.

All sizes back then had 2¢ deposits.

 

[mmouse37]

I am 58 and I can't say I remember this at all--at least not in my area.

Me either....always the long carton of 12

 

[fly girl]

An outdated packaging I can remember was pudding in cans with the pull ring:

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And of course the ring would break off and you'd have to punch at it with a knife or screwdriver or whatever you ahd - very safe way to handle it.

These eventually all gave way to the plastic cups with foil lids, but even in the 80's we had the cans. I am not sure when the above ad is from but it shows exactly the type I am talking about. I think we mostly had Jell-O brand, but I couldn't find a picture.

YES! I remember those in my lunchbox as a kid. You know, the metal lunchboxes not plastic.


(I had this Muppets lunchbox, Strawberry Shortcake was my favorite but this is a Disney site, so I gotta go with Muppets.)


And when King Dons (or Ding Dongs) depending upon your geographical area in US were in foil wrappers.

 

[BrianL]

YES! I remember those in my lunchbox as a kid. You know, the metal lunchboxes not plastic.

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(I had this Muppets lunchbox, Strawberry Shortcake was my favorite but this is a Disney site, so I gotta go with Muppets.)


And when King Dons (or Ding Dongs) depending upon your geographical area in US were in foil wrappers.
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I had both metal and plastic, though by the time school started they were shifting more to the plastic style. I still have a Voltron one that is full of Legos! The handle broke off though.

 

[Dan Murphy]

How about when sticks of gum each individually came wrapped in both a foil and paper wrapper?

 

[Micca]

How about when sticks of gum each individually came wrapped in both a foil and paper wrapper?

Wait...they don't do that anymore??? I stopped chewing gum years ago but I had no idea about the packaging changing.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Wait...they don't do that anymore??? I stopped chewing gum years ago but I had no idea about the packaging changing.

Marie likes gum. Nope, no double wrap with foil and paper. And actually, the foil was double layered, paper and foil sandwiched together. Are you old enough, Ron, to remember Dick Clark's Beech-Nut Show?

A walk down memory lane

 

[bcla]

How about when sticks of gum each individually came wrapped in both a foil and paper wrapper?

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Those are still available in 5-stick packs. I haven't seen them at supermarket checkouts, but maybe convenience stores might still have them, and they come in bags with several packs inside. I was always partial to Juicy Fruit though.

 

[bcla]

Well, I am much older than you. I remember 6 1/2 oz bottles, then 12 oz after that (to compete with Pepsi's larger 12 oz bottle)

Pepsi advertising jingle...

During the Great Depression, Pepsi gained popularity following the introduction in 1934 of a 12-ounce bottle. Prior to that, Pepsi and Coca-Cola sold their drinks in 6.5-ounce servings for about $0.05 a bottle. With a radio advertising campaign featuring the popular jingle "Pepsi-Cola hits the spot / Twelve full ounces, that's a lot / Twice as much for a nickel, too / Pepsi-Cola is the drink for you" – Pepsi encouraged price-conscious consumers to double the volume their nickels could purchase.

All sizes back then had 2¢ deposits.

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One place in the early 80s that I'd go with my family, they had a Coke vending machine. Something like 30 cents, and I think they were 6.5 oz bottles, but I don't think they had a deposit. But it was the kind of machine where the money was inserted, and one bottle was pulled out from any one of several holes after opening a tall, narrow door.

I don't think this was the exact style, but it was similar.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Those are still available in 5-stick packs. I haven't seen them at supermarket checkouts, but maybe convenience stores might still have them, and they come in bags with several packs inside. I was always partial to Juicy Fruit though.

Yes, still available in multi packs, but each stick not double wrapped as they were many years ago.

One place in the early 80s that I'd go with my family, they had a Coke vending machine. Something like 30 cents, and I think they were 6.5 oz bottles, but I don't think they had a deposit. But it was the kind of machine where the money was inserted, and one bottle was pulled out from any one of several holes after opening a tall, narrow door.

I don't think this was the exact style, but it was similar.

Yes, lots of machines back then, some like this. Every gas station had at least one.

 

[Meriweather]

Never seen egg cartons like that......only 2x6
west coast and in my late 60's

 

[BrianL]

One place in the early 80s that I'd go with my family, they had a Coke vending machine. Something like 30 cents, and I think they were 6.5 oz bottles, but I don't think they had a deposit. But it was the kind of machine where the money was inserted, and one bottle was pulled out from any one of several holes after opening a tall, narrow door.

I don't think this was the exact style, but it was similar.

My old barber shop had one of these.

 

[Micca]

Are you old enough, Ron, to remember Dick Clark's Beech-Nut Show?

I remember the chewing gum, but not the show.

 

[Sweettears]

I remember the chewing gum, but not the show.

I echo this. But I’m getting pretty grossed out by looking at toe fungus ads throughout the thread. Anyone else getting these or just my lucky day

 

[RedAngie]

My father’s business had an old fashioned Pepsi vending machine for employees and customers until about 1980.





It was entirety mechanical, no electronics involved in the dispensing. After inserting 10 cents, you pushed down on the lever on the left, and the returnable bottle came out the TOP of the machine. Built in bottle opener and cap disposal container.

Inside was a vertical rotating drum, sort of like this from a Coke machine.



While pushing down on the lever, you could hear and “feel” the drum rotating.

There wasn’t really a choice of flavors with these machines, but if you wanted whatever Pepsi’s diet version was back then, or root beer, or Teem (Pepsi’s version of 7-Up, one of the staff could open the door with a key and there were small cubbie holes where the other flavors were kept cold.

I filled this old machine many times. It had an unusual but not unpleasant aroma inside.

It finally broke and the business replaced it with this style. Non-returnable glass bottles and the price increased to 25 cents. Easier choice of flavors.





I’m not sure what type of machine is there these days.

On that first machine, it was not pristine looking like in the photo. The wiseguy employees would spray paint it different colors. Often they drew a caricature of my father’s or his brothers’ faces on it with a black marker and the bottles dispensed from their mouths. The warning “E.B. (Or MB or SB, their initials) is watching you” was scrawled on it too.

My father and uncles tolerated this but when one joker drew a caricature of the bottle coming out from between a woman’s legs, they went ballistic.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I echo this. But I’m getting pretty grossed out by looking at toe fungus ads throughout the thread. Anyone else getting these or just my lucky day

No - I'm getting Olukai slipper and Norwegian cruise ads right now. (The slippers, I bought for DH for Christmas, but have no interest in a cruise, so not sure what clicks triggered that one.)

 

[Micca]

Not sure if anyone posted one of these yet. Another gas station staple that was pretty much gone during the 60s. Occasionally you'd bump into one in some backwater town where the machine had probably been there since lord knows when. The 40s? 50s? BTW, they never looked this clean and shiny, they looked pretty worn out.

 

[Mysterian]

YES! I remember those in my lunchbox as a kid. You know, the metal lunchboxes not plastic.

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(I had this Muppets lunchbox, Strawberry Shortcake was my favorite but this is a Disney site, so I gotta go with Muppets.)

I had just mentioned the metal lunch boxes in some previous thread! I still have nostalgic olfactory memories of PB&J and Koolaid from just looking at the images of metal lunchboxes. Kids today are missing out.