3 cent Coke vs 5 cent Coke?

[KeithW]

Hello all,

Whie is Missouri I came across this old sign painted on the side of a building.

http://members.aol.com/keith0alan/images/coke.jpg

Anybody know the differance between "plain" 3 cent Coke and 5 cent Coke ?

keithw

[Larry Dunlap]

When I was a kid, here in Marseilles at the drug store a plain coke was 5 cents. If you added flavor(cherry,vinilla,etc.)it was 7 cents. Could that be it?
Larry

[John G. Simpson]

ezy tu xplane. ifun yuall were a lokal, it were 3 sents, strainjers payid a nikel.
john

[B. K. Lahey]

Would there be 2cents deposit on the bottle??
BK

[ListerDiesel]

The official Coca-Cola website says that the original drink sold for 5c a glass, so the 3c version may have been plain soda without the flavoring? See also Larry's post on the subject of flavoring.

http://www2.coca-cola.com/ourcompany...ybottling.html

Peter

[KidDynamo]

Maybe they really did have an anti- fatigue version with a little "additive". Probably not for the kids, either version, back in those days.

Bad for you then, bad for you now. I only have one 2 liter jug in the fridge.

[Gene O. Carpenter]

That additive back in those day's was "Coke" ,the narcotic derived from the Cocoa Leaf! No wonder it was such a success. .But I like RC Cola to wash down the Planters Salted Peanut's !! Right Elden!!

Gene

[John Newman, Jr.]

I have seen that Coca-Cola sign before. I remember seeing it from the train (Amtrak) going from Saint Louis to Kansas City (or on the return trip...) but don't recall what stop it was.
Would there have been a price difference between a bottle & a fountain serving?

[Elden DuRand]

The sign says "3 cents plain" so I guess the nickel drink was with an added flavor.

When I was a kid, you could get a bottle Coke for a nickel. If you brought in a bottle (2 cent deposit), you could get your Coke for 3 cents.

Woolworth's five and dime was really that. You could get lots of things from them for a nickel.

Them wuz the days!

Take care - Elden

[Andrew Mackey]

Our town had a soda fountain shop until the mid '70s, when the town forced the old geezer who ran it , to close, and move out. He had nickle and dime cokes (small or large coke glass), and the 7 cent version was a small coke with chery, or vanilla added. The old man refused to sell bottled coke, he said they made it different. (and he was right, the fountain coke was better) After the old man was forced out of his shop, a sale was held, and the contents sold off. I remember one of the sale items most vividly. It was a nickle plated telephone, and the solid oak booth it was mounted in. It sold for $1,000, back then, an unheard of price at the time. I heard the guy that bought it say that it it was one of the first of its type built, and it was in pristine-like new shape. it still worked! I remember it so well because, when the booth was unbolted from the wall, the thing tipped, nearly squashing the men removing it. The reason - over $400 dollars worth of loose change piled on top of the booth, behind the porcelean Bell Telephone facade, on top of the booth. There must have been 50 pounds of silver quarters, silver dimes, nickels, and pennies, indian heads, wheats and some lincoln cents, up there! When asked about it, the old man said he didn't like counting change in the register at the end of the day, so anything that didn't add up to a dollar, got tossed up on top.
Andrew

[Phillip Hutchinson]

G'Day all,
I know what the different price relates too, the 5 cent stuff has a snort of scotch/bourbon in it.Jees i dont know.
Regards Phillip

[Farquhar]

When coke went from a nickle, to six cents, they put a sign on the coke machine in our school to put in the penny last. We leaned real quick it was the penny that did it, so we had penny cokes for a few days. They learned real quick to fix that. Coke & potato chips were the only things extra you could buy, and you had to be in an upper grade at that. I carried biscuits to school for 8-9 yrs, used the brown bag till it was so thin you could read through it too.

[Benny Mckheean]

Anyone every put there salted peanuts in there Coke?I saw my Grandpaw do that when I was a little fellow and I still do that now,it sure does taste good. benny

[Farquhar]

Must be a thang we do around here [southern] Benny. I did it till the peanuts started hurtin my belly.

[packrat56]

3 cents plain around these parts means plain soda water....