CANnables

[Ron J]

Stopped at Light, this CANable went by pulling his shopping cart train. Guess it is free money, Five Cents a pop, just go get them! The gentleman has all the carts tied together.

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

There is a small park near our home where a little old lady goes through the trash cans to retrieve the cans. This reminds me how we use to walk down old county roads looking for soda pop bottles to turn in for two cents each. Kelley (Texas)

 

[nge]

2 cents each, yes I remember those days also Kelly. When I got my driver's license back in '66, I used to cruise the freeways and pullover to search the gulleys (medians) for 2 cent bottles to buy gas at 17 cents a gallon......lol nge

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

We would store them out in the tool shed until we had a wagon ful, then cash them in. They had to be clean, no dirt inside them. Those were some good times. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Ron J]

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[Kelley (Texas)]

We made our own kites, but a roll of string was a dime. A box of .22 shorts were forty nine cents a box of fifty, cokes were a nickel. Those were some good days. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Ron J]

In 1964, I used to visit a friend near a lot of woods. There was a Stable where they rented horses, and a leader, would take a dozen or so riders down the back roads for an hour or so. This was the only time in my life, I ever rode a horse. But those dirt roads stuck in my head. Another time I met a kid, about three years older than me, and he grew up around those woods. He had a junky car, and at night he would take us for joy rides, through the woods where there really wasn't a road, more like paths! He was crazy, guess we were to , just being in the same car with him! I would be amazed, seeing a few old cars, abandoned in those woods.
When I did get my license, I couldn't wait to explore those roads again, myself! I was just out of Trade School, working as a rookie mechanic. To supplement gas money, I would drive in the woods, searching for those old cars... I would remove the radiators, heater cores, and batteries if there were any. We would then bring them to a scrap metal place, and sell them for the copper and brass. I think a battery was worth .75 cents. The radiator would bring $3.00 or 4.00 dollars!!!
Like NGE mentioned, as was cheaper then , I can remember eighteen cents, then twenty one cents a gallon! For a dollar I could ride my 57 Olds Convertible around for a night or two! The Good old days!! Now all those old roads are either built on. Or blocked by gates. Mostly are fire roads.
RJ.

 

[Ron J]

Paid cash for everything. I will bet the only debt our parents had was the Mortgage, maybe Sears & Roebuck, and the Life Ins. Man. A lot simpler time!!

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

When I was a teenager, I use to work on some of the ranches part time. You could make a few dollars working the hay fields, or better yet, riding back in remote areas looking for lost mama cows and their babies. As I got older, sometimes I could pick up a few dollars at the weekend roping events around the area. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Roscue2]

I will pick them up if I am walking the dog or am out mding, which is the only way to make money off of them over here. When we lived in TN I used to walk around my neighborhood ever few months and collect around a bag full of crushed cans on the route I took. There was a older gentlemen who I saw occasionally riding a bike with a basket around town picking up cans. Unfortunately, plastic and glass wasn't worth anything in TN. Which is a shame, because if they had been I would have made good money as a kid. There were a few times when walking around my neighborhood I would find piles of glass bottles and plastic bottles. Oh, what could have been!!!

 

[nge]

Roscue2 If glass, plastic were redeemable back then, you would never see them in piles. Here in Michigan all drink bottles and cans that have fizzy contents are worth a dime, non-fizzys are nothing, no liquor or vodka, or gin bottles whether they are made of glass or plastic are worth nothig either. I wish they were, I'd be rich. Michigan has been toying with the idea of making a deposit on aforementioned bottles. I wish they would hurry up.....nge