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Yes Cotton was King - 10/1/2008 9:09:02 AM    digger mcdirt   Posts: 910 Joined: 8/8/2005 Status: offline Yes Cotton was King and the ACL's of the 50's reflected it here in the South. Here's a nice old Southern Soda bottle from 1955 Cotton Boll with the Cotton Boll on front and rear. We had Cotton Klub, King Cotton and Cotton Boll just to mention a few locals  . Brings back memories of picking Cotton when I was a kid. Seems a lifetime away ! bob Attachment (1) _____________________________ McDirt Post #: 1

RE: Yes Cotton was King - 10/1/2008 5:41:35 PM    glass man Posts: 1835 Joined: 1/30/2008 From: GEORGIA Status: offline HEY DIGGER,I PICKED COTTON WHEN I WAS A KID TOO,FOR ABOUT 15 MIN. AND MY CUTICLES BEGAN TO BLEED! MAN WAS I GLAD I HAD A CHOICE! DO YOU KNOW WHAT SORT OF DRINK WAS IN YOUR BOTTLE,COKE LIKE,GRAPE,ORANGE,7 UPPISH,ETC. _____________________________ JESUS said"COME TO THE WATER,STAND BY MY SIDE. I KNOW YOU ARE THIRSTY;YOU WON'T BE DENIED. I FELT EVERY TEARDROP WHEN IN DARKNESS YOU CRIED,SO I STROVE TO REMIND YOU FOR THOSE TEARS I DIED. "children of the day" (in reply to digger mcdirt) Post #: 2

RE: Yes Cotton was King - 10/1/2008 5:42:53 PM    kbobam   Posts: 71 Joined: 9/7/2008 Status: offline Just great!  What's it say on the back?  Bob (in reply to digger mcdirt) Post #: 3

RE: Yes Cotton was King - 10/1/2008 6:53:17 PM    digger mcdirt   Posts: 910 Joined: 8/8/2005 Status: offline Yes I picked cotton as a kid there was several small fields around that must have been too little for a Picker. That was in the late 60's. Still a lot of Cotton grown here but no hand picking now. I to be honest don't know what the Soda would have been Cola or Flavored drink. Back just has City etc and anotehr Cotton Boll. bob (in reply to kbobam) Post #: 4

RE: Yes Cotton was King - 10/1/2008 7:39:01 PM    glass man Posts: 1835 Joined: 1/30/2008 From: GEORGIA Status: offline IN THE 'late 50s and  early 60s,cotton fields were every where around here! NOW mostly subdivisions going up for folks moving here from or who commute to ATLANTA. A small cotton field may be found but rare.The machines that pick it ,looks like ,leaves bout half of it behind.YEP NO PICKERS ANY MORE. What is mostly grown in a few large fields is soy bean. THIS TOWN WAS ONCE A BEAUTIFUL PLACE,LOTS OF PLACES TO FISH AND HUNT,LOTS OF FARMS,LOTS OF COUNTRY,ALL A MEMORY NOW!I MISS ALL THE DIFFERENT SOFT DRINKS THAT I THOUGHT WOULD ALWAYS BE AROUND! IN 1956-57 MY FAMILY LIVED IN A HOUSE CONNECTED TO A STORE WE RAN. A GREAT MEMORY OF MOM GOING INTO THE STORE ONE NIGHT AND GETTING ME A COLD GRAPE NEHI! MAN,WHAT A TREAT! < Message edited by glass man -- 10/1/2008 7:40:20 PM > _____________________________ JESUS said"COME TO THE WATER,STAND BY MY SIDE. I KNOW YOU ARE THIRSTY;YOU WON'T BE DENIED. I FELT EVERY TEARDROP WHEN IN DARKNESS YOU CRIED,SO I STROVE TO REMIND YOU FOR THOSE TEARS I DIED. "children of the day" (in reply to digger mcdirt) Post #: 5

RE: Yes Cotton was King - 10/1/2008 10:03:45 PM    digger mcdirt   Posts: 910 Joined: 8/8/2005 Status: offline Sounds like it was a great place ! We have changed a lot but there is still a lot of farming going on and some large Cotton Operations but not 25% of what there was. Sad how many small towns are lost today with the so called progress agenda. I grew up here in West Tenn and it was much much different than today. I sent to movie for 25 cents Coke was 15 cents popcorn 10 cents a bag and I got a $1 a week from my Dad so I had 50 cents to spend on BB's for my gun a pea shooter and maybe a pack or two of Baseball cards (man that chewing gum in those packs was good) and ususally I still had enough left for a Coke out of the machine down at the old store they were all 6 1/2 oz but only a dime !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I long for those days but they are history. I grew up drinking RC-DOUBLE COLA-NEHI-NUGRAPE- PEPSI- COKE AND KICK and ever now and then  a Nice 10-2-4 ACL Dr PEPPER. And peanuts in a bag and you poured them into the RC or PEPSI Bottle you thought you were in Tall Cotton !!!!! Memories thats why I love the old Soda bottles.bob (in reply to glass man) Post #: 6

RE: Yes Cotton was King - 10/1/2008 11:34:24 PM    glass man Posts: 1835 Joined: 1/30/2008 From: GEORGIA Status: offline  I remember getting metal slugs from a construction site ,that were the shape of a nickle and was thrilled to put them in the nickle coke machine and getting a free coke! YEAH ,I CAN SEE WHY YOU COLLECT SODAS  . Wish I had kept collecting them along.When I started collecting ,the acls were so easy to find,then I got into patent meds. only and now I collect mostly old anything bottles and it is hard to get back to acls,cause I don't know what they are worth and feel it would take me too long to learn a new catogory.BUT I will pay more attention to them at bottle shows and on here. Yes this place was beautiful ,with a creek that runs through town and many springs all around. It was country in the 50s & 60s as soon as you were out of the city limits and the roads turned to dirt. OH WELL! < Message edited by glass man -- 10/1/2008 11:36:56 PM > _____________________________ JESUS said"COME TO THE WATER,STAND BY MY SIDE. I KNOW YOU ARE THIRSTY;YOU WON'T BE DENIED. I FELT EVERY TEARDROP WHEN IN DARKNESS YOU CRIED,SO I STROVE TO REMIND YOU FOR THOSE TEARS I DIED. "children of the day" (in reply to digger mcdirt) Post #: 7

RE: Yes Cotton was King - 10/2/2008 3:23:06 AM    acls   Posts: 305 Joined: 6/2/2005 Status: offline Nicre Digger.  I decided to look that one up since you said it was local to you.  So it looks like it is a West Memphis bottle.  Man that's cool!  Any idea if West Memphis has any other ACL soda bottles? _____________________________ Always looking for unusual ACL versions of Nehi, Lemmy, Squeeze, Smile, Spiffy, RC, Coke, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew, Barq's, Frostie, 7up, and Sunrise. Also looking for Tennessee ACLs. Buy or trade. (in reply to glass man) Post #: 8

RE: Yes Cotton was King - 10/2/2008 7:15:59 AM    digger mcdirt   Posts: 910 Joined: 8/8/2005 Status: offline Most of the Sodas I keep are Nashville to Memphis since I live in between the two. This one is really Arkansas but I called it borderline for me . I have seen a couple of West Memphis bottles but not many. They turn up about as often as South Fulton Tn bottles. bob (in reply to acls) Post #: 9

RE: Yes Cotton was King - 10/3/2008 4:31:32 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1759 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin, S.C. Status: offline http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghvVWVcE768 Not me buddy, to young. On another note when I was born in 59 they had to go get my Grandma outta the field, she was picking cotton. I have broke corn, pulled weeds, cut hogs, loaded hay and toated dead chickens and ran many a mile of barb and hog wire. Cotton on bottles here we go. from Waynesboro, Ga. [Birddog Capital of the World I may add]  Dixie Dew early 50s Attachment (1) _____________________________ What I tell Paula EveryDay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKfF0YkFtYg (in reply to digger mcdirt) Post #: 10

RE: Yes Cotton was King - 10/3/2008 4:33:17 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1759 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin, S.C. Status: offline Sunny South W. Cola., S.C. 1947 Attachment (1) _____________________________ What I tell Paula EveryDay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKfF0YkFtYg (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 11

RE: Yes Cotton was King - 10/3/2008 4:44:15 PM    digger mcdirt   Posts: 910 Joined: 8/8/2005 Status: offline Nice bottles. bob (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 12

RE: Yes Cotton was King - 10/3/2008 7:25:04 PM    bamascavenger   Posts: 296 Joined: 9/1/2007 From: Al. Status: offline Being in and from Alabama I would like to have one of those. GREAT BOTTLES. There is still a lot of cotton fields around here, but i think they are going to corn and soy beans or 50/50. Anyway, I'm glad to say i missed the cotton pickin years and can say; the only cotton i ever picked came from an aspirin bottle....haha. But i can remember my Father telling me about the days when he was a child picking cotton and filling up 100 lb sacks and dragging them to the wagons and then start over again, he said he liked the short rows best? These conversations were made while sitting on a wooden bench at a country store drinking a coca cola and he was the first person i ever seen put a bag of peanuts in the bottle. I still do that every once in awhile and it brings back those memories, I passed that tradition on to my son too. (in reply to digger mcdirt) Post #: 13

RE: Yes Cotton was King - 10/3/2008 10:53:34 PM    glass man Posts: 1835 Joined: 1/30/2008 From: GEORGIA Status: offline MY DAD when he was 5 was told if he picked 100# of cotton he would be given a dime t to go to the circus[100# was not easy for a grown up ]. Well he did it! Trouble was after that,they saw what he could do and he had to try to do it every time.He wished he had passed on the dime and had not picked so much. He did a lot of his picking in the early morning cause the cotton had dew on it and weighed more. _____________________________ JESUS said"COME TO THE WATER,STAND BY MY SIDE. I KNOW YOU ARE THIRSTY;YOU WON'T BE DENIED. I FELT EVERY TEARDROP WHEN IN DARKNESS YOU CRIED,SO I STROVE TO REMIND YOU FOR THOSE TEARS I DIED. "children of the day" (in reply to bamascavenger) Post #: 14

RE: Yes Cotton was King - 10/3/2008 11:06:12 PM    kbobam   Posts: 71 Joined: 9/7/2008 Status: offline Seriously!  How about a shot of the back of the bottle!?  Bob (in reply to glass man) Post #: 15

RE: Yes Cotton was King - 10/4/2008 1:08:21 AM    capsoda Posts: 7927 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Hand picking cotton is no fun. I did it when I was 12 and I have never done it since. Great bottles Pat. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to kbobam) Post #: 16

RE: Yes Cotton was King - 10/5/2008 7:59:53 AM    digger mcdirt   Posts: 910 Joined: 8/8/2005 Status: offline Here's four of my Cotton related. My favorite is on the Right KING COTTON with the King sitting on a bale of Cotton. It's from Dyersburg Tenn a fairly rare local ACL. BOB Attachment (1) _____________________________ McDirt (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 17

RE: Yes Cotton was King - 10/6/2008 10:42:21 AM    acls   Posts: 305 Joined: 6/2/2005 Status: offline Awesome group Bob! _____________________________ Always looking for unusual ACL versions of Nehi, Lemmy, Squeeze, Smile, Spiffy, RC, Coke, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew, Barq's, Frostie, 7up, and Sunrise. Also looking for Tennessee ACLs. Buy or trade. (in reply to digger mcdirt) Post #: 18

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