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That Smell / Things I Rember - 8/16/2007 10:32:49 PM   
OsiaBoyce


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Status: offline 		Ya know there was a time before the 7-11 and the Zippy Mart when you bought your drink [ thats what we call'm here in the South ] , you usually bought it from someone you knew. Allways had to bring a bottle.  Many times I would walk to the store and pick up enough bottles for a free drink. Get to the store walk up to that long cooler lift the lid and take a look Choclate Solider,Buffalo Rock,Sprite,Nehi. Open that bottle and listen when the cap hit the others. Ya ever put bottle caps in the spokes on your bike? We did. We used to go to Mr. Hendricks store and ask him if we could get the caps,and allways he told us yes,and I still remember that sweet smell of those cork lined caps in that box. Even thoug I have'nt dumped a box of drink caps in over 40 years I sometimes get a whiff of that smell. Strange huh?
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RE: That Smell / Things I Rember - 8/16/2007 11:24:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		Great memories!  I also have several memories of my youth centered around cokes (what we called drinks).  When we were kids, we also collected coke bottles so we could return them for deposit.  Every once in a while, we'd find that quart bottle in the ditch!  That was $.25!  Our local store owner, Mr. Griffen, wouldn't take them  back if they were full of dirt.  So we had to clean them up some.  I remember one cold night I left some bottles soaking in a 5 gallon bucket.  I went out the next morning and the water had frozen, breaking all my bottles!  I was so bummed.  We'd  hang out in Mr. Griffen's store in the summer, because it was air conditioned.  We'd grab a longneck glass Barq's for $.30 out of the cooler and sit there and drink it, while talking to him.  We didn't ever take it outside because he'd charge us an extra $.10.  So, we'd drink them in the store and put 'em in the rack by the door.  I still remember, around the mid-80s, when the first 10oz PET Coke bottle came out.  I went to the cooler to grab a standard 10 oz Coke glass throwaway and it was plastic!!  I ran to the counter with it, asking Mr. Griffen what was up with that??  He laughed.. said seemed everything was going to plastic.  One last thing, one of the reasons I started collecting bottles was because of Mr. Griffen.  He wouldn't take back 'old' bottles.  When I was about 10 or 11, we found some 10-2-4 Dr Peppers and amber Orange Crushes.  He turned us away.  Said they were too old to be returned.  So, I took them to my tree fort and kept them there for years, until I really started collecting... I guess that's enough for now.

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RE: That Smell / Things I Rember - 8/17/2007 12:06:52 AM   
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Status: offline 		For me everything was a Coke. It was kind of a generic thing. We would walk the mile to the end of the road to Pate's Grocery and buy our Cokes (my Coke was always a Strawberry Nehi, Strawberry Crush or an RC). We would collect the bottles that my older brother and his band would leave around and pick up a few on the way and then present them to Mr. Pate or his wife Betty. The big drinks were a dime and the Coke shorties were 6 cent. I can still remember the smell of the strawberry and the burn of the RC. We took the tops and snaped them with our fingers to see who could make them go the farthest. We also picked blackberries and sold them for a dime a quart to make money for Cokes.  Loved to lick the cork in the caps where the suryp would collect.

Man them was the days. Lighting bugs in a jar, no shirt, no shoes, crew cuts and dirty all the time. One, two, three, redlight and ole, ole oxienfree and a big RC.

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RE: That Smell / Things I Rember - 8/17/2007 1:01:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		One more thing..  one summer we collected the pull rings off coke cans and connected them together, to form a necklace.  This turned into probably a 20 ft necklace before the summer was over.  We'd sit outside the store and collect pull rings as people would come out, pop open a coke, and throw the ring on the ground.  Then, those darn pull tabs came out.  Remember the first Cokes that came out with those had the directions printed on the cans on how to open them???  I still have some of those cans which are some of my favorites.

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RE: That Smell / Things I Rember - 8/17/2007 1:22:12 AM   
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Status: offline 		all right you three, stop it. i'm having flash backs. some of the best times of my life. i split my summers between my parents and my grandparents. a big group of us would start out with a couple of 5 gallon buckets walking along the road and by the time we got to the store it was drinks and candy  for everyone. for the record here every brand of soda around here was a coke no matter who made it. sure caused some problems when i went in the air force.

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RE: That Smell / Things I Rember - 8/17/2007 5:27:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		Ewwwww  that smell cant you smell that smell the smell that surrounds you!

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RE: That Smell / Things I Rember - 8/17/2007 10:13:31 AM   
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Ewwwww that smell cant you smell that smell the smell that surrounds you!


lynyrd skynyrd- that smell, come one rick, give me a tough one!

know this one?  "ma-ma hollered out the backdoor, y'all remember to wipe your feet..." if you need more of the song let me know

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RE: That Smell / Things I Rember - 8/17/2007 1:25:47 PM   
OsiaBoyce


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Status: offline 		Can't speak a word when ya full of ludes,Which reminds a of a time in my life. There used to be a Dr. Augustino Carlucci in Augusta,let him examine you {visual only}and get ya some of them 714s or other medication. Used to find the way to the feller who had them by following the knocked down stop signs. Oh yea this Dr. was a friend of Burt Renolds in one of his movies Dom Delusie played a Dr. and his name was Dr. Carlucci.......... Ok Spencer this is fairley easy for someone my age,name this tune off the top yer head. " When I was a young man -standing in the door-the room was dark and smokey-the smell of death before me-think I'll go down mama........"

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RE: That Smell / Things I Rember - 8/17/2007 1:34:46 PM   
capsoda


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Status: offline 		Sorry Rick, It mussa been dem collards I ate. 

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RE: That Smell / Things I Rember - 8/17/2007 2:01:11 PM   
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When I was a young man -standing in the door-the room was dark and smokey-the smell of death before me-think I'll go down mama........"


that is a tough one... im going to have to request another line...

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RE: That Smell / Things I Rember - 8/17/2007 2:53:09 PM   
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RE: That Smell / Things I Rember - 8/17/2007 3:51:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		Pat, As I was reading your post that smell came back.  Nothing on earth has thas smell.  As most of you know my Stepdad ran a country store.  This was a two-pump gas station , grocery store out on US 319 the other highway to Florida.  US 1 went down the East Coast, but if you were going to Miami you took 319. Anyway I can remember those summer days, hot like this summer was.  Pair of shorts and underwear, that was it until Sunday rolled around.  Barefooted as a hoot-owl.  Toes all skinned up from tripping on pine roots. Dad let us get a treat once in the morning around 9 and once in the evening around 3.  Couldn't wait till the time came in the evening.  Walking barefoot on that cement floor was so cool to the feet after running in all that hot sand.  You would lift that folding lid on the drink box (that's what they were called), and that cold air would come up and almost take your breath.  We were too short to reach over in the drink box like the grown-ups so we had a stool by the drink box that we would stand on.  Dad didn't like you to keep the lid opened too long so the drinks would stay colder.  You knew what each drink tasted like.  You knew the short cokes were stronger, but you knew that there was more in the larger sizes. If you drank that short Coke too fast you would strangle on it and it would come out through your nose.  Ever done that Pat or cap?   Coke, mmmm Nehi Grape, Orange, Strawberry,  mmm Nehi Peach yum. Buffalo Rock ginger Ale, Icy Brook ( tasted like bubble gum), RC Cola, Pepsi, Frostie Root Beer, Chocolate Soldier, so many choices.  Dad's drink box was an older model with no drink name on it.  He didn't like being told how to display the products he sold.  It was a copper lined box and would freeze the drinks if you didn't keep them moved around.  You would grab a drink and the moisture from the condensation of all that humid southern air would be froze in the bottom of the drink box. Where you pulled out the drink would have an impression of the base of the bottle.  Next was the opening of the bottle and the cap would go into that cap holder.  I used to keep a lot of these and build things, you could stack them (pyramid style) sort of like legos.  Dad would toss out the caps when the holder got full. He always threw them where the rain came off the corner of the store , I guess like you would use gravel today.  I remember walking on the caps barefooted, and to me and my brother you were a sissy if you walked around the caps. Painful, but the skin on the bottom of your feet would toughen up by the end of the summer.  Yes Pat, I remember the smell of bottle caps with cork liners and the smell of soda left inside.  A big RC Cola and a Stageplank and off to a shady spot neath them Georgia pines.

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RE: That Smell / Things I Rember - 8/17/2007 3:54:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		Spence, Is it  ....."the day Biilie Joe McAlaster jumped off the Tallahachee Bridge..?

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RE: That Smell / Things I Rember - 8/17/2007 6:18:15 PM   
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Is it ....."the day Biilie Joe McAlaster jumped off the Tallahachee Bridge..?


close, right song, wrong name, the correct title is "Ode to Billie Joe"

now, who sung it?? any takers?

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RE: That Smell / Things I Rember - 8/17/2007 9:24:19 PM   
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RE: That Smell / Things I Rember - 8/17/2007 9:26:26 PM   
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RE: That Smell / Things I Rember - 8/17/2007 9:34:27 PM   
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Status: offline 		yo spence ya ill step up it was bobbie gentry, great song by the way.. back to the main topic, back in the late 70s in my youth we had a carry out at the corner ,  we used to turn in bottles i think for ten cents, mostly 16ozers pepsis and cokes, wed even pull em out of the nasty creek yuk, bought alot of chicko sticks, and hubba bubba, and bubble yum gum, i remember fanta good stuff!also they had a white rock chocolate drink,i remember drinking alot of pepsi in steel cans, how about 7 eleven slurpees,and the first beer id ever tasted was pabst blue ribbon the second was genessee ah yes the memories   mike

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RE: That Smell / Things I Rember - 8/17/2007 9:43:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		Madman thay still have fanta I drink it all the time, how about eating playdough ahhh loved that smell to, white paste was always good, and top it off with some elmers, ahhh the good ole daze

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RE: That Smell / Things I Rember - 8/17/2007 9:49:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		hey rick, i know they still have fanta, but ive not seen it in these parts, glue and playdough ill have to pass,  yuk, but i would have loved to drank the booze that was in that puce flask wow!! love yer posts !!! mike

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RE: That Smell / Things I Rember - 8/18/2007 12:10:09 AM   
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