Pop Bottles

[Peanut]

Couldn't find another thread on this...

Today I was checking fences for storm damage. I found a really old Mountain Dew bottle in a gully beside a road. I've never seen one like it. The little face on the neck is saying "Yahoo". There is a man with a rifle at the bottom left shooting at a little house, presumably a still.

I've have a few soda bottles I've found through the years, nothing special. I always keep them.

Anyone else keep a few old bottles around?

 

[Sentry18]

For a brief time in my late teens I collected Coke bottles and A&W Rootbeer Jugs. I still have a few wrapped in bubble wrap boxed up in the man cave and one jug from the 60's sitting out.

 

[Terri9630]

I've never heard of a root beer jug.

 

[Bacpacker]

I haven't either. But I'd like to have a half dozen or so.

 

[Peanut]

When I was a kid there was an old country store at the corner of the farm. It had belonged to my great uncle and closed before the great depression.

It was full of glass bottles of every design imaginable... even a section of medicine bottles, labels still on them.

I saved a couple dozen of the best... had them in an old wooden toy box in our house... The tornado of '74 flattened the store and our house. They were all destroyed. I still wish I at least had the ones I'd saved.

 

[phideaux]

Back about 40 years ago, my dad had to break up part of his basement floor in Chicago , and unearthed this bottle.
He gave it to me.
Under the porcelain cap it printed Pat
j.kutter
1893

The bottle is embossed with
Paul Pohl
trade PP mark
Chicago

It's old.
I would say it's a beer bottle...I have never tried to research it.

Jim

 

[Sentry18]

I've never heard of a root beer jug.

I haven't either. But I'd like to have a half dozen or so.

When I was a kid you would buy the jug full of root beer, then when it was empty you could refill it for a cheaper price. Coke came in bottles that you would trade in for full bottles, where with A&W you kept using your jug over and over because they made their root beer in house. And they still do. Whenever I am home I buy 3-4 gallons of Diet A&W Root Beer, only now it comes in a 1 gallon collapsible container.

 

[Bacpacker]

I recall swapping come bottle, but we didnt have a A&W around. Wife said she remembered them however. Her dad was a big root beer fan.

 

[Terri9630]

I remember taking bottles in for the deposit when I was a kid. It doesn't happen down here anymore.

 

[Cascadian]

My wife has Dr. Peppers bottles.

 

[Patchouli]

When my brother was a teen he'd scavenge through old abandoned houses and look around on properties where there were old foundations. He'd always find the burn pile and dig up old bottles from the early 1900s. He found a little math book in a house one time, 1917 or thereabouts for print year.
There were a few old gentlemen antiques dealers in our town who were always ready to buy from him.
He did hang on to a few bottles.
The blue/green glass insulator things on top of phone poles were a good find on the ground too. He gave me a couple of them.

 

[Patchouli]

@phideaux
Paul Pohl is easily found. I typed in Paul pohl 1893 and found interesting historical info, photo on eBay of a bottle similar to yours, and a few other things. Looked like value of the bottle on eBay was $22.