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Soda Machine from Days Gone By

On It — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 14:32:04 GMT

I remember using one of these. Did you see or use one, too?

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cheriere — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 14:35:11 GMT

@On It I remember those machines lol. You had to carefully slide the bottle down the track and then make a few turns to get it to the release position. What a nice memory. Thanks for reminding me about those. 😊💝💕

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PansyBoo — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 14:42:28 GMT

Yes. I loved those things! And you won't believe this but we actually had one at our house. 😲 My dad had a lot of men who worked for him driving trucks and when they came in at the end of the day they would come up to the house and get a cold drink. The machine was altered so you didn't have to put in a coin. And I gotta tell ya, I yanked my fair share of Dr. Peppers outta that thing too! 😄

Such good memories.

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Terrywu — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 15:05:09 GMT

Great memories.

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ID2 — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 15:46:37 GMT

Ours were called pop machines.

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On It — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:02:44 GMT

@ID2 wrote:
Ours were called pop machines.

We called ours Coke Machines even if buying a different brand. I used the term soda trying to be generic. I forgot some say pop.

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PansyBoo — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:29:36 GMT

@On It wrote:
@ID2 wrote:
Ours were called pop machines.
We called ours Coke Machines even if buying a different brand. I used the term soda trying to be generic. I forgot some say pop.

Agreed, @On It. Even though waaaaay back then my drink choice was a Dr. Pepper, all the machines were called Coke Machines. They still are. Also, it was always, "Ya wanna go get a Coke?" Never used the terms soda or pop.

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On It — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:45:17 GMT

@PansyBoo We still say we want a Coke. I can no longer tolerate carbonated drinks. My husband orders Dr. Pepper but says we are stopping for a Coke.

If you look at the photo of the machine, the top right edge of the Coca Cola Coke logo is showing, so it was a Coke machine.

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Still Raining — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:50:13 GMT

They had the bottle top removers on the front with the repository for the tops. Looking back, I wonder how they were emptied or cleaned? I know we sometimes fished down there for spare tops. Not sure what we wanted them for, but they were free.

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Carmie — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:50:20 GMT

I remember those drink coolers. The drinks were so cold and tasted 100% better served in glass bottles.

What a good memory that is.... a blast from the past.

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kze — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:53:44 GMT

@On It wrote:
@ID2 wrote:
Ours were called pop machines.
We called ours Coke Machines even if buying a different brand. I used the term soda trying to be generic. I forgot some say pop.

@On It

Yes, Coke was a generic term! I drank Dr Pepper then and now. My cousins all drank Delaware Punch. Does anyone remember that? I don't know if it was a South Texas thing or not, despite the name.

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catter70 — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 17:26:47 GMT

I'm old, but I don't remember that type of cooler. My favorite soda when I was a kid was Moxie. Don't know if it's still around or not.

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sunshine45 — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 17:31:58 GMT

have never seen or used one......

when were they popular?

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Burnsite — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 17:48:41 GMT

catter70, I have some Moxies in my fridge right now--I can only find them at Fresh Market. They are made in Maine, NH and Mukiteo, WA (just looked at one of the bottles). People love Moxie or hate it--it tastes of gentian root (a strong herbal) but is the color and sweetness of a cola.

In small towns in Mass, there were tiny convenience stores in every neighborhood, selling things like tissues or butter or milk. (Not meat or much in the way of vegetables, but small goods that people easily run out of.) That is where I remember seeing the cola chests--at the grocer's and also at local gas stations.

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beckyb1012 — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 17:49:12 GMT

I am old enough to remember when Mom very rarely let us get one, sometimes we would have to share my brother and I. Shorts, barefoot and a bottled drink.

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781Florist — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 18:06:48 GMT

There were a few varity stores in our town that had this type of cooler but none of them had that track thing inside.

The ones I remember looked like the pictured one on the outside, but it was just a hollow chest with about 3-4 inches of cold water that the bottles stood in and got ice cold.

We always called them Coke machines regardless of what brands were inside them.

Being a child of the 50s and 60s from the greater Boston area, we never heard of pop or soda or soda pop.

Coke, Pepsi, Sprite, Root Beer, any of those carbonated

drinks were "tonic".

P.S--

My mother would play her ace in the hole when we were

annoying her by saying that we had better behave or she was buying Moxie the next time she went shopping.

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Daisy Sunflower — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 18:12:14 GMT

We always said "Coke".

We thought it was weird if someone said "Soda" or "Pop".

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Pook — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 18:18:49 GMT

We had a gas station/garage next to us when I was young and I remember going over there frequently for a grape or orange soda and candy bar!

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Carmie — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 18:30:06 GMT

@Daisy Sunflower wrote:

We always said "Coke".

We thought it was weird if someone said "Soda" or "Pop".

As an adult when I traveled across the US, I was surprised that in some areas people called all carbonated drinks " COKE."

I am from PA and it's called soda here, or else we will use the correct names of the drink....Coke, Pepsi or 7UP. We don't say pop, but I was aware that some people do.

It seemed weird to me, but then we call facial tissues Kleenex no matter what the brand is.

I love traveling and learning about the differences in the English language. I used to talk to people all over the US by phone. The best part of the job was hearing the accents and verbage people used.

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On It — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 18:34:16 GMT

@catter70 wrote:
I'm old, but I don't remember that type of cooler. My favorite soda when I was a kid was Moxie. Don't know if it's still around or not.

The one I used was in the 1950's in a country store not far from my grandparents' house.