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[kze]

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@On It wrote:

@kze I drank Delaware Punch in West Texas. They were good.

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@On It 

Did you?  I've never seen them since the gas station by my cousin's farm.  Couldn't stand them.  Lol.

[Puggywuggy]

I remember those! It seems as though everything tastes better (except vegetables) back then. Thank you for the fond remembrance.

[50Mickey]

I remember those coke machines. Some times the coke bottle would get stuck.  There were also coke machines that you put your money in and pulled a handle to get the coke out.  I'm so old I remember getting a small coke from a machine for a nickle. Then it went to 6 cents and then 7 and then a dime. There is nothing better than a cold coke in a 6 oz glass bottle.  How many remember collecting bottles to turn in at the corner store for money? 

[J Town Girl]

 I grew up in Western PA and we always called it "pop".  I remember when we would travel to another state and hear it called "soda".  That always sounded so strange to me.

In our neighborhood there was a little store that had their pop in a machine like the one the op posted a picture of.    This brought back such happy memories for me.  I can't remember the name of the store but the owner was Nunzio.  He was such a great guy and always took the time to talk to each and every one of us young kids when we came into his store.  

[781Florist]

@Enufstuff  Do you remember Bireleys?  It was a non-carbonated orange drink that came in glass bottles.

I loved it.  It isn't around anymore  but I read that it is still extremely popular and available in Japan!

My town had a Tayters potato chip factory and a Canada Dry plant.  Also, remember "Cott" beverages?

"It's Cott to be good!"

[shelbyshelbyshelby]

Those were the good old days .

[Enufstuff]

@781Florist   No, I never heard of Bireleys. There was a local company that made non-carbonated drinks. It was Snowcrest and it came in glass bottles in the shape of a bear.   We had Orange Crush. I do remember Cott and that slogan.

[wilma]

I was born in 1962, and I remember those machines. The local drugstore/candy store had one, and when I did student teaching in 1982, the school had one of those in the teacher's lounge. A few years later it seems the upright soda machines with canned drinks became popular. 

[Burnsite]

Our closest bottler of beverages was Simpson Spring in Easton, MA.  About 30 miles from Boston. They were delicious and less expensive.  I never had any carbonated drinks like that until highschool, where the main after school snacks for kids waiting for the bus home were a "Peggy Lawton" choco chip cookie (apparently made from repurposed drywall) and a cherry coke. 

My parents disapproved of sugary beverages (as well as, a few years later, sodas with artificial sweeteners.)  If any one of us was sick, we were given flat cola. 

Mom didn't believe in bubbly beverages for sick people.

An earlier poster said that "tonic" was the word for soda or cola in Mass--definitely true where I lived.

We also called water fountains "bubblers."  Common in the South Shore of Mass. and in Worcester MA.

[Enufstuff]

 @Burnsite   When I was growing up in the 50s and 60s, carbonated drinks were mostly for birthday parties . My mother would not allow Kool Aid or Coke in the house. We had lemonade or Zarex in the summer. Occasionally she would buy Pepsi and that was  treat.

  When I had money of my own, I would buy a little bottle of

7Up.

   It's funny, I had not thought of those Peggy Lawton chocolate chip cookies in years. Of course, they could not compare to my mother's home made tollhouse cookies, but we thought that they were good. They were sold at our neighborhood drugstore, at the soda fountain. When we were in high school,

my girlfriend and I would sometimes go there after school. I would get a raspberry coke and she would get a vanilla coke.

Sometimes I would get one of those big cookies. They probably would not taste so good to me now.

  Living on the North Shore of Mass. we had water bubblers too and we drank tonic. It is interesting that our language has so many regional words for common things.