How do you remember Phoenix? Stories from long time residents... (Glendale: timetable, airline)

[roosevelt]

[roosevelt]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

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The box looks like a mail box but I don't remember advertising on the sides in Phoenix, and there is a door between the legs.

[trillcatz]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

Pop Shoppe was around in the early 70's. They had home delivery service, I remember their truck going down my street, red and white stripes, and thinking who on earth drinks that much soda? Captain Cola was their mascot? They had some really weird flavors.

I didn't remember they delivered but I knew they had some kind of gimmick and yes, this was about 73-74. The same red and white bottles are in my local grocery store...had no idea they were still around and am really not sure how they are still around as I remember their cola being horrible! But then I'm one who drove down to Mexico for the weekend just to buy Coca-cola when the new Coke came out. lol

[trillcatz]

Originally Posted by desertratz

Can't be any weirder than Jones Soda's Turkey and Gravy soda I see in Fry's!

Lol my kids love Jones soda..."try some mom" no thanks! Too weird for me.

[trillcatz]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

The box looks like a mail box but I don't remember advertising on the sides in Phoenix, and there is a door between the legs.

Isn't it one of those green boxes? I never knew what they were for but you would see them around and they were shaped like mail boxes but no logo or anything.

[roosevelt]

Originally Posted by trillcatz

Isn't it one of those green boxes? I never knew what they were for but you would see them around and they were shaped like mail boxes but no logo or anything.

Before the 50's, mailboxes were green but there was another box painted brown also that was a storage box and they didn't have a chute.

[desertskies]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

Before the 50's, mailboxes were green but there was another box painted brown also that was a storage box and they didn't have a chute.

I thought that was a trash container...seriously. Closer exam tells me otherwise.

[desertratz]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

Before the 50's, mailboxes were green but there was another box painted brown also that was a storage box and they didn't have a chute.

I can't imagine there being advertising allowed on a mailbox back then because the US Mail was official and therefore sacrosanct, not like today where they'll do anything to make a buck. Remember your mailbox on a post in front of your house??? They still say property of the US Postal Service, even though you bought it, put it up and are expected to maintain it. It almost certainly has to be a trash bin??????????????????????

[SluggoF16]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

Before the 50's, mailboxes were green but there was another box painted brown also that was a storage box and they didn't have a chute.

As a kid I asked the mailman in my grandmother's neighborhood why there was a mailbox nearby that we couldn't put mail into. He said it was to hold mail since as a walking mail carrier he could only carry so much, and he had to go back and forth. The area was mostly apartments (just south of the apartment complex where Bob Crane was murdered) and so the walking carrier was the most efficient way to deliver mail. As for the advertisement, it seems very odd that an radio station, or anyone else, would post an ad on the mailbox and the ad not be removed almost immediately, at least in the 50s or 60s.

[roosevelt]

Blast from the past; I bet most of you have never seen one of these: 1950 version of the credit card called a Charga-Plate Credit Token. From our local Diamond's store downtown at 2nd St. and Washington. Measures 2 3/8 inches long.