Did You Hear About The Time We Picked Up Coke Bottles To Get Movie Tickets?

Archie and Cathy Brown wanted to go to the matinee at the local theater. A ticket only cost twenty cents in those days, but it was a more than their dad could afford that weekend. It was not the first time that had been the case. So they resorted to their old way of raising funds.

They got their wagon and began walking the streets of their small town to collect discarded coke bottles from the ditches. The return on the bottles was two cents each. So when they had gathered twenty five bottles, they went to the local market and redeemed the bottles. Each of them had a quarter, so they could get in the theater and were able to buy a bag of popcorn, which cost a nickel.