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163ekings 1953 Pak-A-Sak stores man oh man that's the easiest shopping in all the...Once there were over a trillion Pak-A-Saks. Bacon's Studio photo General Collection Imagine back. Open the lid to that chest cooler that revealed piles of cold cokes, we call all sodas cokes. Regular and king size coke, brownies, nehis, frostie root beer...A Saturday routine was to rise early and go coke bottle huntin' and I don't mean on people's carports, we had more class than that. Well, maybe in desperate times we did kinda mosey up in someones yard and...Most times though the pickins' was plentiful and although it would take the better part of the day we could end up with a couple dozen at two cents apiece. That's dern near fifty cents! Pak-A-Sak bound to cash 'em in. I'd even take them in the backroom and rack them. I know what kind of soda bottle goes in what kind of shell, to this day. When the deposit went up to a nickel a bottle, well that was manna from heaven. Twenty bottles would get you a Duncan Yo-Yo.

This photo is way before my time but the Pak-a-sak stores were around in my youth. Buy one and get one free firecrackers :D On our bikes looking for coke bottles to turn in for that nickel which would buy something back then.
I remember when they introduced Icees and were giving away samples in little baby Icee cups. Do not forget cut out and save coupons on the cup ;)
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I never cared for the suicide :nono:

I watched them bring in the icee machine. Waited for it to get frozenated. Got the very first sample. Brain frozen I set out to spread the word. Door to door. That Pak-a-Sak went through some samples that day. They also had bar-b-que sandwiches. With a buck you could get two of them, a sixteen ounce coke, a bag of cheezy-poofs and a delectable hostess treat of some type and still end up with about eight cents in your hip pocket.

ol' pak-a-sak.. my dad worked at one of those in Bossier , I think some time around the late 40's.. before he headed off to college at LSU. Somewhere in a scrapbook somewhere, we've got some pak-a-sak matchbooks and other such stuff. I've been looking for it, but no luck yet.

Oh the memories. I used to go bottle hunting at "sandy banks" along the railroad track next to spring lake. 3 cents a bottle can sure add up! I was happy if I got a coke and a candy bar out of the deal. But like fishing, some days were better than others.

I think I called Circle K's and 7-11's by their original name Pak-a-sac until at least the late 90's.. As for the sodas, I also remember RC cola and "Apple Beer" which was like apple flavored ginger ale. We thought we were cool drinking "beer" and chewing candy cigarettes. Also Tab and Fresca's come to mind but those were diet drinks that I didn't like as a kid. But the bottles were good anyway. :D