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[kze]

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@On It wrote:

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@ID2 wrote:

Ours were called pop machines.

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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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@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.

[catter70]

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.

[sunshine45]

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

when were they popular?

[Burnsite]

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.

[beckyb1012]

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.

[781Florist]

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.

[Daisy Sunflower]

We always said "Coke".

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

[Pook]

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!  

[Carmie]

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@Daisy Sunflower wrote:

We always said "Coke".

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

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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.

[On It]

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@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.

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