I found an old coke bottle. Can you guys help me date this?

[IronWing]

We had glass quart bottles with screw tops wrapped in a thin jacket of styrofoam. That was the largest pop bottle the local bottlers produced until the plastic two liters. A&W would sell gallon jugs of root beer from the tap. Someone sold cardboard half gallons of pop from the tap but I don't recall where we got those now.

 

[feralkid]

I remember the quarts.

I guess afterwards you use it to yell at people.

 

[Iron Woode]

Yes, but do you remember the glass 2 liter coke bottles that preceded the plastic ones ?

We only had glass 1.5L bottles in Ontario.

 

[Paperdoc]

My early memories of Coke bottles includes when the gas station in our small town got a machine you could buy Coke from one bottle at a time. This was mid-1950's. It was a refrigerated chest with a hinged transparent lid you opened to reach in and slide the bottle along a slot between metal strips to the end, where a release mechanism allowed you to lift it out. The price was 5 cents a bottle, later raised to 7cents; the shape was the "classic Coke bottle" with thick walls. That was so they were durable and could be returned and re-used many times. The bottles at that time were 7 oz., and that was common for all soft drinks. 10 oz. bottles were introduced in the 60's. None of that time were the stubby light-weight version in OP's photo, so I'm guessing it comes from later, perhaps the 80's.

 

[EliteRetard]

1960's diamond embossed.

Sounds like you didn't find it, you took it from the worker who did.

 

[Perknose]

You would not believe what customers would put in those bottles and then return them for deposit !

Oh, I would. I really, really would.

 

[Perknose]

This took entirely too long!

That's what she said!

 

[CZroe]

Yes, but do you remember the glass 2 liter coke bottles that preceded the plastic ones ?

Maybe some regions had those and not others depending on the local jottli g company. Before modern 2-liters we had those 2-piece ones.

Back when cans had a tab you pulled off completely I also recall giant 3-liter bottles which had a metal cap just like the personal size glass bottles (16oz or the smaller retro-style bottles).