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Pop Coolers with Cold Water Around the Pop

hpm40 said:
This country store that I went to also had a small deli/meat counter in the back. You could get all your bulk sandwich meats sliced before your eyes. I can still hear the sound of the big meat slicer and the sound of Clarence ripping a sheet of white wrapping paper for the goodies.

And yes, I remember those glass jars of pigs feet and other things that I had never tried. I was always curious about them too.

Thanks everyone for sharing your memories !
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And the big jar of shelled hard boiled eggs too, in some kind of redish colored liquid !
I liked hard boiled eggs, but not bold enough to try one from the jar !
 
OBMG74 said:
No water involved but my grandparents had a machine like this in their gas station.
When I was a little kid, if I helped out around the station, I would get to use the crank on the side door and slide out a soda.
Always tasted good on a hot St. Louis afternoon!
Great memories.
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When o was a kid at my dad’s station 25 cents could get you a can of pop and a package of crackers ! No most people wouldn’t even stop to pick up a quarter on the ground !
 
Yes, in fact I do remember, but was pretty young when encountering this way of cooling soda/pop.

The type of refrigerator gave off a particular smell that just isn't there today.

It's like the drugstores of old. They too, had their individual aroma when first you entered the pharmacist store back then. And, this was where you could get a REAL soda, from a "Jerk"...and not the "float" of today, eh?

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The term pop for sugar infused drinks fit the time of those water filled coolers. Sometimes just soda or Coke but many used the term pop to cover all the brands.
 
The pickled pigs feet, pickled eggs, red hots, etc. all lined up on the back shelf were not in the corner store.

They were in the corner bar, or "beer garden" as my grandmother called it. There was one on about every corner. Cleveland, Ohio1960s.
 
spicer said:
The term pop for sugar infused drinks fit the time of those water filled coolers. Sometimes just soda or Coke but many used the term pop to cover all the brands.
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Where are you from?

"Pop" is not a universal term in the USA. I'm from Ohio and "pop" is definitely used here. Traveled around the US and Canada for work and heard coke for everything (down South), and soda for everything (WI, IL, etc.).
 
Ross6860 said:
The pickled pigs feet, pickled eggs, red hots, etc. all lined up on the back shelf were not in the corner store.

They were in the corner bar, or "beer garden" as my grandmother called it. There was one on about every corner. Cleveland, Ohio1960s.
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Another old-timey bar food was "Blind Robins"...little plastic sacks with a smoked fish inside stapled to a display card.
 
hpm40 said:
I fondly remember as a child riding my bike the three miles to the country store where I would hand over my hard earned money: 10 cents for a Pepsi and 5 cents for a bag of Planters Peanuts. The cold drinks were in a well insulated cooler that resembled a small chest freezer. Opening the full-length door on top revealed bottles and bottles of different brands and flavors, standing upright and up to their necks in ice-cold water. There was no coin slot, you paid the store clerk. This would have been in the 60's, maybe into the early 70's and I don't recall seeing another pop cooler with water in it after that store. I was too young to notice whether it used gas or electricity. Does anyone else remember these old coolers ?
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Growing up in Chicago, we didn't see that which you've described above, but our cousins, who were plopped out in Nowhere, Will County (Illinois), did have a "corner store" in their town w/ exactly that which you've described above. It was a cool little place, the hub, as it were, of a little community called "Barber's Corner" and the store was called "Grace's". This would be circa 1962-5, I reckon.
 
Ross6860 said:
Where are you from?

"Pop" is not a universal term in the USA. I'm from Ohio and "pop" is definitely used here. Traveled around the US and Canada for work and heard coke for everything (down South), and soda for everything (WI, IL, etc.).
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Lifer's son, around the world and USA.

Agree about terms for soft drinks, changed depending on region.
 
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