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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

As a kid I'd get up early on Saturday mornings, and bicycle along neighborhood streets and along a road, looking for soft drink bottles. This is before the days of plastic bottles or even aluminum cans. Coke bottles would fetch a 4 cent deposit, RC products 3 cents. If I could find 6 or 8 bottles, then I could bicycle over to a small family owned grocery, cash in the bottles, and buy Topps wax packages at 5 cents each. On a good day I'd get 7 or 8 packs. I can still smell the produce in that store, I can still see dirty, slightly muddy bottles in my bicycle basket. And I need a sip of water right now, I can still taste that gum.

And I was so far back in time, with the wind hitting my cheaks as I bicycle along, the morning dew dripping from the bottles as I peddle along, that I forgot to mention the store name, Hammonds Cee Bee Grocery Store, North Main Street, Franklin KY. This would have been in 1964. The building is still there, with the memories, but the business is long gone.