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fatlazyless · 03-26-2019, 04:22 PM

Back in the early 1960's, I can remember taking green quart glass bottles of Canada Dry ginger ale back to the store, for a refund of 2-cents or 5-cents, depending on size, in the Boston and Nantasket areas. It was not required by Massachusetts law, and was just done that way for years and years and years with glass bottles, placed into all wood, bottle racks, and sent back to the bottler for cleaning and refill with a new bottle cap.

People would save their empty glass soda bottles for a month or two before taking them all back to the store. For some unknown reason, there were no returnable, hard liquor glass bottles? Maybe glass beer bottles were returnable?

Those were the days of Cub Scout bottle drives, where the local Cub Scout packs would hit the neighborhood, go knock on doors, and ask for empty glass soda and beer(?) bottles. People would rinse them out, otherwise they attracted bugs while sitting in the back porch, or somewhere.

03-26-2019, 04:22 PM	#1
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,925 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 307 Thanked 1,056 Times in 769 Posts	Back in the early 1960's, I can remember taking green quart glass bottles of Canada Dry ginger ale back to the store, for a refund of 2-cents or 5-cents, depending on size, in the Boston and Nantasket areas. It was not required by Massachusetts law, and was just done that way for years and years and years with glass bottles, placed into all wood, bottle racks, and sent back to the bottler for cleaning and refill with a new bottle cap. People would save their empty glass soda bottles for a month or two before taking them all back to the store. For some unknown reason, there were no returnable, hard liquor glass bottles? Maybe glass beer bottles were returnable? Those were the days of Cub Scout bottle drives, where the local Cub Scout packs would hit the neighborhood, go knock on doors, and ask for empty glass soda and beer(?) bottles. People would rinse them out, otherwise they attracted bugs while sitting in the back porch, or somewhere. __________________ .... Banned for life from local thrift store!