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I never heard of such a thing when I was growing up in the Los Angeles area. I never saw one anywhere else in the U. S. that I visited.
There was a milk man when I was young. There was a bakery truck for many years. There was an ice cream truck and those are still popular in some areas.
When I was young, you could turn pop and beer bottles in to any market for a refund. So, as kids, we would sometimes collect bottles and use them for personal income to buy candy, comic books or whatever.
Sometimes our school would hold a "bottle drives" to raise money. We would ask neighbors to save their bottles for us and we would go around with a wagon collecting them.
Sometimes our school would hold a "(news) paper drive" and it worked the same way.
In the US, we didn't have a pop man, but I do remember (when very young) a milkman (who delivered milk), an oil man (who delivered oil for our oil-fired furnace), an ice man (who delivered blocks of ice for our ice box; it was an old retreat on the lake), and more recently, the ice cream man (Mr Frosty) who sold ice cream from his truck; you heard him coming from the continuous ringing of bells and music.
My grandparents remember the Corona man. They had flip top stoppers I think. Never seen any myself, but we have 2 similar flip top bottles for chilled water in the fridge
No clue. I know my mom had the milk man when she was younger come by the house delivering milk though. But this is the first time I've heard of the soda man.
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There wasn't a "pop man" over here. There was a milk man until I was a teenager. When I was a little kid there were still a couple old Coca-Cola machines that gave you a little glass bottle for 25 cents. If you wanted your nickel back, you put the bottle in the machine and turned a handle.
I don’t remember this, was it a regional thing?
That wasn't a thing in my lifetime in California. We did, around 1980, have a store called The Poppe Shoppe that was a soda store and sold soda in those same glass bottles in about 20 or 30 different flavors, and there was a significant deposit on the bottles so most got returned. That store only lasted 4 or 5 years.
Effectively they were out-competed by grocery stores selling for less and using cans that were easier to recycle.
So this is how the Corona virus started everyone's blaming China but it was you guys all along! I think they had this kind of thing for other things in Switzerland but not pop.
The fun thing is it was also a thing in Turkey during 60's. My told me how all the kids would start flocking around the van to get a bottle of pop.
I remember the Corona truck. Usually arrived just after we got our weekly coal delivery on a Monday. That was about 1976/77.
When I was young, there was a milk man and a soup man coming along now and then. But I never heard of a "pop man".
No, I don’t recall ever seeing a soda man, but I do recall seeing the ice cream man all the time and to this very day they come to my neighborhood on the cul-de-sac
We sure had it in Australia , Loys was the main brand , exactly as you describe.
But I reckon maybe we stopped sooner because I think it all went to sht by the time I was about 20..
But was huge in the burbs at one point.
I lived out in the sticks, never saw one as far as I know.
Yes I remember ours, Dent Aerated Water Co. of Cleator Moor, Cumbria. We'd buy a crate of 12 small bottles a week.
We had a popman in the area of Cansda where I live but they didn't deliver pop to homes door to door in residential areas, they delivered wooden cases of glass bottled pop to the convenience stores and grocery stores
I honestly don't but it sounds cool I like retro things cuz it seemed like it was a better time
... Who even calls it "pop"? Which part of the UK are you from? They certainly didn't have anything like that in Aberystwyth.
Never heard of a pop man. We drank home made teas, root beer extract and plenty of milk from our cows. We had Bread men, Milk men, potato chip men, Fuller brush men and a couple I that I can’t think of at the moment.
Didn't they used to deliver milk this way? I've never heard of the 'pop man'.
There was soda home delivery in Philadelphia. Franks soda. There was also a truck that would bring pretzels and potato chips.
I *think* Sweden had a milkman, back in the 30's-40's. Archaic practices by now, but growing up hearing of it I always found it sort of charming. And very convinient.
That must have been before my time.
We never had a soda man, only an ice cream man
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