In the scene where Nina brings the tampons to Lisa & asks Danny if he has any Champagne, he brings the girls Pepsi's in glass bottles. Maybe California is different, but I haven't seen a glass soda bottle since well before 1986
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Do you think Pepsi may have been used as a sort of item of continuity for the series? When Sally & Jacob were on their way to Amarillo, she told him she packed him some fried chicken & a Pepsi. Then in a scene set in I believe 1981 with Amelia & Charlie, she set two glass pepsi bottles on the table. Then was the scene I mentioned set in '86 with Lisa, Danny, & Nina
shareIt's more likely Pepsi paid them for product placement.
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As a kid growing up in the 80's I remember using tall glass bottles for pepsi, coke, and seven up. Back then the bottles were exchangeable for ten cents each here in Illinois. I used to save my bottles of pop until I had ten which meant a whole dollar. I would walk down to the corner store with a bag full of empty pop bottles and leave out with chips and candy. *sigh* those were the days.
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When I read the original post to this thread, I was coming to put almost exactly what you did. I remember taking a literal truckload of assorted glass drink bottles, (mainly Pepsi) out to the local Krogers. I would then use the money we got, from the bottle exchange, to rent Nintendo games and Movies for the weekend. Fond, fond memories. Not to mention how much better pop (or soda, if you don't care to be wrong), tastes when it comes out of glass as opposed to plastic.
I couldn't tell you for sure when it stopped, but I know it was the late 80's when it was still going on. I was born in '81, so I doubt I would even remember such a small detail if it had been too early. I wanna say they were still doing the exchange in the early '90's but can't be certain about that.
Those were indeed the days! This post slammed nostalgia over my mind so hard it was like a truck's impact on an egg suspended at bumper level.
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I was also born in 81 and loved being a kid in this decade, Remember staying over friends houses, watching great cartoons like: Dangermouse, Transformers, M.A.S.K, Centurions, Super Ted, He-Man, Thundercats, Inspector Gadget,
etc- Playing computer games, Riding my BMX in the park, Saw my first musical when I was 4 in summer of 85-Starlight Express and got hooked on musicals :-]
Also good technology:
Pagers,Mobile Phones, Video Cameras, VHS/Betamax Video players, Microwaves,
CGI, SKY/Cable, Electronic Dishwashers, Computers, Digital sound, Teletxt, Scanners, Fax Machines,Printers, etc
TV shows: Knight Rider, AirWolf, Street Hawk, Moonlighting, Cheers, Magnum PI,
The Equalizer, Family Ties, Hunter, A-Team, Out of this world, Just good friends, Only Fools + Horses, Red Dwarf,Dempsey + Makepeace ALF,Fame etc
Films
Rocky 3+4, Predator, Batteries not included, The Goonies, The Thing, Robocop, Ghostbusters 1+2, Indiana Jones Trilogy, Back to the future Trilogy, Rambo Trilogy,
The lost boys,Flight of the navigator, Empire of the Sun, The Explorers, Gremlins, Last Starfighter, Tron, Three men and a baby, Poltergeist Trilogy, HellRaiser 1+2 etc
What else do you remember from being a small kid in the 80's :-]
Haven't seen the episode you're refering to but to add to your question, where I'm living now (Amsterdam, NL) in most bars or clubs they still use glass bottles for soda. Do they serve plastic bottles in California then?
shareMore to the point, what were B-2 type aircraft doing in the 1950's, Or Railguns being launched to stop Russians/aliens in the early nineties? Oh it's an alternate history of what could've been. *facepalm*
shareYou don't see them too often but they still sell soda in glass bottles. My grandfather still buys them. I think they're imported.
sharei know that a lot of non USA places still have soda bottled in those glass taper bottles.
the ones depicted in the movie wouldn't have been too far off. i know in 86 i still bought coke, pepsi, mountain dew, and RC Cola... all in glass taper bottles like those.
I was buying those regularly up until at least 1990.
I still buy a case of coke in those bottles every once in a while... look in the ethnic section of your favorite grocery store, or in corner bodega's/ethnic food stores.
All we have in our grocery stores are glass mini bottles
sharenot sure when they switched as a rule but I know growing up well into the 80's 1.75L and 16.9 oz Glass was the Norm...
the 2 liter Bottle was a fairly new invention in the late 80s; remember they used to have a thick plastic 'cup' glued to the bottom of a rounded bottle before they eventually figured out the 'five toes' version we see now
-- so much changed in the beverage industry in the 80s, if you may recall the 'Pepsi Free' joke in Back to the Future... the caffeine free variant was new, and it was another few years before the branding evolved into 'Caffeine Free Pepsi' heck even Diet Coke didn't exist pre-1982
and even with Glass on the way out you could chalk it up to stylization, as Plastic is so ubiquitous today almost any Use of Glass indicates a 'bygone era'
I was buying and drinking Pepsi in glass bottles in 1986 in Minnesota. And they were available here, in Missouri, until the mid 1990's.
shareI moved from the east coast in 1989 to LA and in both places you can STILL get Pepsi and other brand sodas in the TALL glass bottles. Some of them are from a bottler in Texas and some come from Mexico. Amongst Soda-enthusiasts that I know, they prefer the tall bottles from Texas and Mexico because they are made with Sugar Cane Syrup and not High Fructose Corn Syrup.
In NYC, you can often find them at small Bodegas on ice in the summer right by the checkout counter. Here in CA, they never went away for Pepsi, Dr. Pepper and Coca Cola. Since we're so close to to the Texas Bottling plant and Mexico, you just have to go to a Hispanic grocery store and they are there. The Cokes also come in the small "Christmas" sized bottles but you need to check the ingredients since Coca Cola saturates ALL the grocery stores with the small glass bottled cokes from Halloween until after New Years. Some of those are the HFCS type. If you want Sugar Cane Syrup, be sure and check the label for ingredients and/or look at where it was bottled.
My wife misses Tab in the tall bottles. She used to be able to get them in Upstate NY through the late 1990s. Canadian Bottlers still make it available but you have to live near Montreal or Toronto to see them in USA Border states. She used to make trips across the border to bring back Pepsi Cerise for her Dad (Cherry Pepsi). The Tab bottles were pretty. They had little yellow stars on the neck.
I have some tall Pespis (Pespsies?) and Coca Colas in the fridge right now.😊
If you live in the Los ANgeles area, try finding the nearest Superior Grocery Store. They often have them. ALso, we have found them in the Chinese Suburbs (San Gabriel, etc) at big Grocery stores there. Best wishes.
Glass Pepsi bottles were still in use during in the early 90's. The exact time they were phased out may vary a little from one state/region to the next, but in '86 they were certainly abundant.
shareI live in central Florida. I have glass bottles of COKE and RC/COLA in my fridge right now. PEPSI products also still come in glass but don't know if the bottles are 12 or 8 ounce.
Glass is better than plastic because when you put salted peanuts in your COKE, they slide out of the glass bottle but stick to the inside of the plastic ones.
Guess she didn't like the cornbread either.