Old returnable bottles

[dr galaga]

'Kito's quest for 10 oz. bottles has caused this question.  When going to the antique stores lately I have been paying closer attention to the soda bottles.  Except for one Barq's bottle, I have not seen any other 10 oz. bottles.  Then I remembered back as a kid - the only thing I remember in the 70's and 80's was 16 oz returnables.  That's all I remember drinking and that's all I remember being at the store (besides the large glass and then plastic bottles and of course cans).

Were the size of bottles dependant on the region (bottler) that you were in?  Certain bottlers only bottled certain sizes of bottles?  Or is it that the 10 oz. bottles were "out of style" by the 70's (if this was the case you would think that you should still find them in antique stores)?

[sodaworks]

I remember the 6.5,12 and 16 ounce bottles. We used to drink the bottles while sitting on top of the cooler at the front door of the store so that we could leave the bottles and not pay for the deposit.   '>

[Kilroy]

In Michigan at least , the 10 oz bottles were around the time bottlers switched to no deposit. I am imagining most of them are still buried in landfills.

I am running acorss them at antique shops, but since it has 'Coke' on them, the shop owners think the bottles will pay for their retirements.

Still keeping an eye out for your bottles 'Kito

Thanks guys.

[MoonDawg]

This morning I had a guy ask me how much 6.5 oz bottles are worth. I said "about a buck"
         He replied that he knows where there are 30.000 of them buried in Alaska.    Thanx anyway !!!!!

[vendobaldtops]

Another Alaskan Gold Rush!

[BrianB]

Prospectin' for bottles....what's next?

[DanV]

In cincinnati I worked at my dad's grocery store and the sizes were easy to remember because I had to sort and shelve them. Pepsi products were 12 oz and 16 (except once in a while we would get a hillibilly dew 10 0z , but most of these were 12 also). The coke products were 6.5 oz (with white lettering), a few older 6 ouncers (embossed, no lettering), and 10 ouncers and 16 ouncers. Most kids drank the 6.5 , they seemed to taste better than the bigger ones. 7-ups were 7 oz and 16, while rc were almost always 16.

[MoonDawg]

Just got back from the Coca Cola show in Portland. At the swap meet I looked hi and lo for Kito's bottles. None found. Al Wilson (author of the collector's book) introduced me to a big time bottle collector who told me he thought they were only produced in South Carolina, thus that's why we find none here on the west coast.
       Sorry Kito.......I really tried.   '>

[dr galaga]

Quote (MoonDawg @ July 10 2005,9:15)

...who told me he thought they were only produced in South Carolina, thus that's why we find none here on the west coast.

Or the Mid-West!

Interesting info (though I already knew the Coke sizes).
I will have to check the bottom of my mere 11 embossed 10 ouncers to see if they all say "South Carolina".
I'll report back here.

[halehouse]

Kito, The 10oz bottles I sent you I got out of my grandmother's basement in Ohio.

[Kevin C]

Hey

That's   CAROLINA

Kevin