Middle Aged Memories
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Yes I remember that. Saving them was a sticky busines, too. I never truned any in for anything.
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I remember those--sticky and never got anything, either. Probably didn't drink enough soda to get enough to do anything with.
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My dad had a retail store, and in the back break area he had a coke machine that took dimes and it gave you an 8 oz (I think) Coca Cola. We would take turns staying with him on Saturday mornings while my mom went grocery shopping, and we would sweep the store, dust, etc. Then we would muster courage to ask if we could have a Coke. We didn't get soda much unless it was on a special occasion.
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I remember those tops, but didn't collect them. The pop at our house was often a (local) off-brand, so those caps never had anything inside.
I did collect the $5.00 worth of cardboard coins from the Mallow Cup packages once. It took a long time, but I did redeem them and they sent a six-pack of the Cups to me. Yummy! I haven't had one of them in a long time. I know that candy is still out there, but I think it is only in some regions.
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Mallow cups are still available in Maine! I love them, almost as much as Butterfingers!
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My dad worked at American Can Company in San Francisco for years. He'd bring home bags of pull rings and we'd make chains out of them to hang around our rooms. He'd also bring home banks made from cans and sleeves of can ends. When his company had family day, we'd all go and see the huge machines he ran and get ice cream in the cafeteria.
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When we were in Hawaii last October we happened to see a Coke machine identical to Dad's. I took this picture of it. It is missing the little lid that you got to spin the top of the machine around with to aim it a bottle of soda.
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Don't think I have ever had a Mallo Cup, but it sure looks good!
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I remember collecting pop bottles and returning them to the corner store for money. I didn't even drink pop but I always managed to find a bag full around the house. I think we got a nickle or something like that for each one turned in. I used to spend the money on a popsicle and some penny candy (mojos, carmels, blackballs, etc.).
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I STILL collect cans and bottles, but I take them to the grocery story to cash in. Cans are still 5 cents, but wine bottles are 15 cents!
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You can redem wine bottles? I had no idea. We have recycling centers around here, some are manned by people, and others are machines that you place the cans and plastic bottles into one at a time. I will have to check out the wine bottle thing.
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Meece, I think it depends on whether or not you pay a deposit on the bottles when you buy the wine. Here in BC, we pay ten cents deposit, and get that back when we return them to the recycling depot, not just for wine bottles, but just about every type of container that we buy that has a beverage in it, except for milk jugs. We used to live in another province, and would pay a ten cent deposit, but only get five cents back when we returned them. Lately, I have been donating all of my bottles to the SPCA, that way I don't have to go to the smelly depot and sort them myself.0
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We don't pay deposit when we buy wine here. Can you imagine the money our state would make if we did?
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Come to think of it I do pay a deposit on soda bottles and cans, wine bottles and almost anything that comes in a glass bottle and many things in plastic (except milk). What's really fun is to search out a redepmption center that gives 6 cents for a can!
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The cans always say something like 5cent s in NY and ME, 10 cents in someplace else. I've always wanted to collect all the cans possible and then go to that state that pays double. BTW, can you imiagine the Californian wine growers and lobbyists if the state tried to require deposits on wine bottles ?
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Each state sets the deposit rate for bottles and cans. California wine bottles have deposits on them here in Maine, why not in California? It doesn't affect the bottlers, it's added on at the point of sale. Since California is such a proponent of recylcing and environmental responsibility I would think that they would already of passed this kind of legislation. Taking the recyclables out of the minicipal trash stream decreases costs there and helps keep my property tax mil rate down. Has Maine actually figured out a way to promote recycling AND decrease taxes that California hasn't? I'm amazed!
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I do know that the wineries must dispose of the bottles in some specific way. i will ask my friends who own a winery and find out just what that is.
Well guess what! I just checked online and there is a .10 per bottle redeption as of 1987! I guess your redemption center just has to be willing to take them.
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In another state, I used to take plastic bottles to a machine in the grocery store that would run a tab on how many you put through it. It was .5 or .10 a bottle. Then it printed out a receipt for store credit. Now, I get curb side recycling twice a month, and pay $5 a month for the priveledge.
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It was not that long ago, but remember when it was popular for the Sunday Comics to have Magic Eye patterns. Some people just could not focus their eyes to see the secret hidden 3-D picture. I got pretty good at it.
I have no idea what this one is. If you print it out and and it is something naughty, let me know.
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I did too. My kids had a book called 3-d Illusions and we even had jigsaw puzzles with those type of pictures,
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I used to love those 3-D prints. It was in the early-mid '90s when they were really popular. I worked at Westinghouse at the time and I had one of these magic patterns done with our company logo (circle "W" as it was called) and put it on the front page of the employee newsletter It was pretty cool.
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I was born cross-eyed and had surgery when I was 5 (51 years ago OMG). Since then, my eyes do not and will not work together, so I was told long ago, I would NEVER be able to see whatever anyone else sees in those prints. I don't even try.
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Don't worry, you didn't miss much. Life can be complete without ever seeing the Magic Eye pics.
But life just would not be the same without Amazing Live Sea Monkeys! Ooooh, I loved that ad! Loved it so much I actually sent away for them. (Yes, P.T. Barnum, you were so right!) They were just stupid, nearly microscopic brine shrimp that died in a day. Mine did anyway.
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Oh Elimar, was it because you didn't build them a castle? I'm so sorry that you didn't get to train them. I was fascinated by these as well, but just couldn't find the money to send away for them. This is a great ad, especially the strategically placed limbs and tail. Wouldn't want to show any sea monkey genitalia.0
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Duh! I only had modest bungalo housing for them. Who knew they were so uppity!
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Was it the "Give-A-Show" projector? My neighbor had that!
My uncle had a real old black metal View Master, with a wheels of places like the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone Park. (Then it skipped a generation 'cause I didn't have one myself.) Then, I got my kids one made out of red plastic, and some wheels of Ninja Turtles, Sesame Street, etc
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My sister had one that had long cards that had maybe eight pairs of pictures on ech. There was a story that it was telling, I rememebr the cartoon of Peter Pan in particular. You had to put dard one in, then card two and so on. My sister rarely shared (And wasn't made to) so I just have vague memories of it. But I do rememeber that when you pulled the lever down the card moved down.
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I remember the View Master! Thought it was a wonderful thing to play with! I had wheels of Disneyland, really liked the pics of the Magic Castle. Lots of fun!.
I had Sea Monkeys, too, once. Came with a necklace with a clear ball that I put them in. I think they lasted a day or so, too. I was convinced they were miniature monkeys despite what my parents told me. Oh, well.
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I guess it was called Tru-Vu. She had some photograph ones, but I remember Peter Pan was a cartoon. Looks like thy had more than 8 pairs, too.
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I had my share of Horney Toads too, but they can flatten themselves out and escape from a birdcage, just in case you need to know.
For those of you who do not know, Horney toads are Horned Toad Lizards. They are about the size of the palm of your hand and have little horns on their heads and back. A defense mechanism lets the excrete blood from their eyes.
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I tried. I have to wonder if they flattened out to escape (They puff up as another defense mechanism) or if my mom had my dad let them out.
I was just reminiscing with DH about a movie I loved when I was little. Don Knotts in "The incredible Mr. Limpet", DH has never seen it. Good Childhood memories. Any of you ladies remember that movie? 1964
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