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Originally posted by country:
When bottles had a deposet of 2 cents.If you could find a penny an a empty bottle you could sit in front of the country store drink a RC an plan adenture.
There were two small stores near me as a child, one sold Vernor's Ginger Ale the other sold Hires. I like Hires, my brother drank Vernor's but both stores sold A 1 Beer and that's what the gentlemen of the area drank. SO, with three A 1 Bottles my brother and I would go first to the Dupa Villa Market, turn in two bottles and get a bottle of Vernor's, and then go to the Portland Street market, turn in the other bottle and the penny and I got my Hires. We also got a few more empties on the way from Dupa Villa to Portland Street. All this ended when the state legislature made it illegal for minors to turn in Beer Bottles. The Chruches thought it was demoralizing to allow children to handle the empties.
The number of injuries caused by broken beer bottles on the vacant lot baseball field closed the baseball field.
The Kids went to stealing sodapop from in back of the stores.