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TGBWC
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I also collect vintage Coca-Cola menus. While these weren't produced by The Coca-Cola Company, I'm thinking they probably paid for the printing since they occupied the entire back page advertising Coca-Cola, along with an inside logo. Most in my collection are from Walgreens and Rexall Drugstores. Remember when pharmacies had soda fountains? Neither do I. But check out those menu prices. Also, food styling wasn't done back then. What you see is pretty much what you ate.
Coca ColaFrom its invention by John S. Pemberton in 1886 to today, Coca-Cola has bec…
MenusBefore restaurants had printed menus, dishes and prices were written on cha…
My brother and I always went to the Rexall Drug store in town and got a cherry coke and a sandwich. The soda fountain was in the back of the store. The store is still there but now it's a printing store. Those were the days to ride there on our bikes and sit on the stools spinning around and laughing without a care in the world. Are you sure you don't remember that Ray, I'm guessing you and I are about the same age? Anyway thanks for bringing back that great time in my life.
Michael
Yes, I remember. I was kidding.
I grew up in upstate NY...in the mid 60s. When penny candy was still a penny and a Hershey bar was a nickel. No 7-11's back then, all mom & pop-owned corner stores with wood floors that creaked and tin tile ceilings.
A lot of those stores are still standing, just boarded up or made into house now. I still wonder if there's some surplus advertising signs just sitting in the basement of these stores, waiting to be discovered.
Its cool to hear you guys remember all that, i was born in 1990 so these mom & pop corner stores were long gone by my time, their boarded up building or turned into house now, like TGBWC said....