I Found A One of a Kind Unique Bottle in a Secret World War Two Vintage Coca-Cola Bottle Dump 

My brother and I made our money in the 1980s, in Michigan, collecting bottles on Sunday morning. The teenagers who drank beer did not pick up the empties! Only years later did we realize that the owner of the little store we turned out empties in at thought our parents must be hopeless alcoholics because we two kids had a red wagon of beer bottles every single Sunday morning! Oops! Our poor parents reputation! Edit: I am also so sad that you were so close to where I live, and I didn't have the connections to meet you! Maybe someday!

You were completely correct in singing the Amarillo song the way you did!!! You were singing Is This the Way to Amarillo by Tony Christie. The laugh is on Ned, he didn't know the song. The UK comedian Peter Kay made it famous across the pond. It is a great song that represents my native Texas well. NOCALinTX

It was so much fun seeing you back in California again, Nicola, with Ned and Paige. What fun folks! He truly has an encyclopedic knowledge of old American bottles. Whatever you are doing, keep it up, Nicola, because you appear so relaxed and "twinkly" these days. Glad to see you doing so well!

Ned is a real inspiration with his happy attitude! Congrats on finding that mystery Idaho bottle Nicola! Also congratulations to the winner! Hugs!

Awesome..that was Fun...i live in Idaho and have one of those bottles..i found it way up on top of a mountain😊😊..enjoy your visit!

In the early 1950s my daddy and his work buddies all had cokes with their blue plate specials at Hamby's. Before they ate, each guy put one dime in the middle of the table. At the end of the meal they turned over their bottles and the one from the farthest away got all the dimes.

My gramps used to have a chest freezer for cokes in his gas station. They were a nickle a piece. I can still remember the sound of pulling those bottles.

Nicola, it seems Idaho Beverage is still around. They are now under the banner of Admiral Beverage located in Worland, Wyoming. I wonder if you could reach out to them to find out more about the bottle. I found their website and can send it to you via email if you'd like.

You’re correct Nicola “Show me the way to Amarillo” by Tony Christie…..actually written by Neil Sedaka 😁😁 great video Nicola…..so glad you came back to the US 🔥🔥🇬🇧🇺🇸

Amarillo... Song by Tony Christie, you were right Nic

When I was 10 my favorite thing to do when I had 10 cents was to go to a gas station in town that had a coke machine. Insert 10 cents then sit on the curb and drink the coke. Hand the empty bottle to the gas station attendant and get 5 cents back. Across the street was the pharmacy where I could get the candy of my choice, usually a Hersheys with almonds, for that bottle return 5 cents. Made for a great day. Of course I didn’t have 10 cents very often! Those were the days!!

I thought Grace Brothers was a department store in Britain. You know, where Mr Humphries, Mrs Slocum and Captain Peacock work.

When Ned found the Grace Bros. bottle, how could you not have mentioned "Are You Being Served?"?

This was a brilliant piece of editing. I loved the history that was recovered with the ubiquitous Coke bottles and the historical pictures. Those ads were really pushing the “wholesomeness” of the product. 😵‍💫 Oh! And Nicola you have a lovely voice!

You were defenitely right with the song, is this the way to Amarillo Nicola😊, sung by Tony Christie in 1971. I remember it😊.

Nicola, I live right across the river from Lewiston, Idaho, and the Idaho beverage company is still in business (I'm 99% sure). I might be able to check it out.😃

My friends and I collected bottles in some woods across from my apartment development, 1960's. I was 10 or 11 then. We collected them in pillow cases and each bottle was 2 cents deposit money. We took our 4 pillow cases to the grocery store and collected our money. We treated ourselves to pizza. Pizza was a lot cheaper then, lol. Good memories!

As an American who loves Coca-cola I can say that I have learned so much from you and Ned and I have never seen those videos of old advertisement. 🎉

Way into the 80s here in Ohio ,we would go door to door asking if anyone had any soda bottles ,people got to know us pretty well and would have a spot out back and we would collect on Sunday afternoons,we bought tons of candy bars,and soda 🥤 lol ,for years we display this and our little collection grew pretty well ,we were actually able to save up for sting ray bicycles,pretty cool memories 😎

The way you say "Bottle" is absolutely charming. love your accent!

Great video Nic, loved all the coke footage. When you found the bottle of the day I remembered you did the same digging with Willie and Sarah getting the rare ginger beer bottles. You have a great eye for treasure.

You were right with the song, Nicola. There were two songs you both thought of. ‘Show me the way to Amarillo’ and ‘Do you know the way to San Jose’.

Hi Nicola, the earliest Coke bottles where called straight side cokes. They had no curve at that time (hence the name straight side and earlier than 1910) and had either a top script or bottom script. If I find mine I will send you a picture lol. Lots of Coke bottles of any older age are collected. Fun video.

Hello there. I live in Boise Idaho. Been to Lewiston. Born and raised here. So happy you found a beverage bottle from Idaho. Love watching your videos.

Very nice video about the Coke bottles. Congratulations Nicola on finding that beautiful Idaho bottle !!! Ned found some nice ones too !!! Ned is a very good singer 😊 !!! I have an old Coke bottle that I bought from the Goodwill store & it's green 💚 & very heavy but I don't know the year. In the 60's I used to as a young girl go out in my neighborhood & collect Coke bottles & take them to our little store & cash them in & then get a little brown paper bag full of penny candy 🍬🍭 & share with my friends & my two little sisters !!! What fun that was !!! Enjoyed your video so much Nicola !!! ♥️🙂

Leave it to Nicola to find the one bottle that Ned hasn't seen before, people will quit inviting you to their sites if you keep this up!😂 When I worked in grocery stores back in the 90's I would take home any interesting bottles I could find. One day a full 16oz glass bottle of coke came in with a plastic milk jug ring still inside, not your average collectors item but I like oddities like that. I'm glad you had another fun and safe trip across the pond!😊

Nicola, who else could be described as delicious, wholesome and refreshing except for you, yourself! I bet a lot of people will agree with me. Great to see Bottle Ned and the gang! All the best, Janet ♥️

2 weeks ago I was metal detecting a lake that got drained and found 2 6 oz Coke bottle one made in Portland Oregon in 1950 and the other was made in Longview Washington in 1951. Both in mint condition. Loved watching you guys digging in this video

Wow, thank you Nicola and friends for bringing back some wonderful memories (as you always do 🙂). For me, I found that Coca Cola only tasted "right" when in the clear bottles (with the logo molded in the bottle, as opposed to printed on). I also have memories of the old dispensers, in which you paid your quarter(s) and opened a slim door from which you pulled the bottle of your choice. So cool to see this site.

As an American, who loves Coca-Cola, and lives in Coca-Cola’s hometown, this was an absolute treat! I’ve learned so much about the history of Coke’s bottling process. I’m over the moon! Congratulations on all of your awesome finds!❤

Nicola, I am an American. I enjoy listening to your pronunciations! Please continue with your pronunciation of bottles. Listening to different pronunciations of English all over the UK has been enjoyable to me in a very RESPECTFUL way. Thanks for all your adventures.

Hi Nicola!! Ned is a riot!! isn’t it always the way when you’re showing somebody new a place that you go to to find treasure and the new person gets to find the find of the day!!😂 It gets me how back in the day we thought everybody was so squeaky clean took care of their garbage right and this video really shows that they didn’t. They could’ve melted the glass again. Couldn’t they have been made new bottles out of that glass? It’s nice to see you sound and safely at home again. Now that we’re getting into the winter months, you’ve got a short window of being able to go mud larking. It’s so nice in the summertime where you have that more daylight so you could have a longer day to look for things. I enjoyed watching this very much!! Thanks Nicola and have a great week!!🥰💖 Congratulations to Paulette!!💥💥

Great video Nicola! The vintage video @ 31:49 sounded and looked familiar to me. So i tried to look for it, and I was right! It's from the Philippines. The background sound is a local folksong called Paru-parong Bukid (Eng. trans : Field Butterfly). I learned more about Coke from back in the day with this vintage video from my country.

Nicola, try contacting Nez Perce County Historical Society in Lewiston, Idaho about your bottle. I bet they have information on the company that made that beverage.

"Grace Brothers" just makes me think of Are You Being Served? 😆

Great video. I enjoyed the fact that you included vintage ads and manufacturing footage. I was born and raised in NY State. Grew up in the 50's and 60's. Bottle deposits didn't begin in this State until 1982. As a kid, I drank Coke, Pepsi, and Orange Crush in the original amber bottle. Back then, Orange Crush contained orange pulp. The Fanta produced in Europe contains pulp I believe. It's missing in the Fanta here. Nehi Beverages, which still exists today, was around when I was a kid. My favorite flavor of "pop" back then was wild cherry. Living in Rochester, NY, we called soda "pop." When I moved 3 hours away, I had to learn to call "pop", soda.

When you said Amarillo, the only Sony I could think of was the song from 1982 by George Strait., Amarillo By Morning! It's done beautifully and is a great song to dance with a partner to a slow 2 step!...lol You'll have to give it a listen. I enjoyed your hunt. St Louis is about 3 hours south of where I live. My daughter lives close to there now. When I grew up in the 1960s you could turn pop bottles for 5 cents and beer bottles for 3 cents. You could buy a lot of candy back then for 59 cents! A Hershey candy bar was just 5 cents and there were at least 35 varieties of penny candy that now cost what our candy bars did back then!!

Another great video Nicola, I enjoyed it very much. Nice bottles found, I hope you had a wonderful time in the United States. Have a fantastic week ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💜

Some of the most comprehensive Coke info - original ads - Ned's Knowledge - Page - Jan and of course Nicola - Very Interesting

Nicola...you were right...”is this the way to Amarillo”......he was thinking of....”do you know the way to San Jose”🤩

What fun! Thank you for the bottling histories, it cracks me up that Coke called their syrup "wholesome". Ned is probably too young to remember either of those songs,. :-)

Who remembers cork lined caps? Im old enough to remember what they looked like.

Thanks. Very cool! I lived on a few islands in the Pacific and frequently found Coke bottles while diving or hiking. On Kwajalein, a WW2 battle scene in the Marshall Islands, you could find them while diving in the lagoon. Typical date on those bottles was 1943. On Saipan, in the Marianas Islands, another WW2 battle area, the bottles were dated 1944 and beyond, as the US invaded in June of 1944. You might expect the bottles to have some value but they might fetch only a few dollars on Ebay, last time I checked. I did find colorless bottles occasionally but don't recall the dates on those. I assumed they were clear because of a wartime shortage of whatever chemical was used to make Coke bottles green. Cheers!

Hi Nicola, what great finds. I never knew the city was on the bottom of the bottles. When we were young, our mom only let us have 1 glass of soda on Saturday with lunch. It was usually from a company called Mother's Pride. It came in a half gallon jug glass bottle. It would be great to find one of those bottles. Thanks again, enjoy your day.

I am in my 76 yr. When I was 12 years old, I worked in a sweet shop and really, really enjoyed Fling! It was cheaper than the other brands but much more delicious. Lemonyish. It came in a big bottle.

How lovely to see more enthusiastic and knowledgeable mudlarkers bringing us another corner of forgotten history! Trust you to get the best find of the day! Congratulations all though on some wonderful finds.

Darling River Goddess, all the water ways on earth are connected. You are recognized where ever you go by the waters of earth. This was great fun. The old advertisements were a memory for this old person, that took me right back. So proud that America joined The British and French in delivering the world from the Hitler and World War II. 🇬🇧🇺🇸 💖

Deposition bottles are still a great thing here in Germany. In a hot summer in the early 2000's I had a student job at a coca-cola distribution warehouse. The alien brand bottles like your 7up and Idaho soda are comming in with the crates full of empty coke bottles. Part of my job back then was to sort out the wrong bottles, so only 100% coke bottles would be send back to the bottling facility.

I live nearby in Stockton CA, and we still used returnable Coke bottles well into the late 80s or possibly even the early 90s. They were huge compared to the ones you were finding. Digging up old soda bottles is just about one of my favorite things to do. Thanks for making this video!

When I was a child, our local Coca Cola bottler had their machines behind a huge plate glass window. We would sit outside and watch the bottles fly by. Thanks for reminding me of that memory.

My husband used to collect Coca Cola bottles. He had about 11 bottles, all collectable. After he passed away I gave the bottles to a family friend who helped my son and I move.

Even though Coca-Cola has been marketed world wide for generations, Coke is genuine Americana. As a kid, in the fifties, being treated to a bottle of Coke was a big deal. I appreciate the Coca-Cola footage you added; while I no longer drink (soda, pop or soft drinks), I love the history. And, as always, I love your uploads. P.S. I suspect the odds of finding another Idaho bottle would be greatly increased in Idaho. LOL

I enjoyed your coke bottle outing. I have occasionally found obscure brand soda bottles in an old farm dump. The oddest one was Marlboro which is a better known name cigarette brand. Turns out it was a short lived soda brand in the 1940s!

Congratulations to you Nicola 🙂

Fabulous film Nicola, what great guy Bottle Ned is. As always, unusually and absolutely facinating stuff....thanks for taking us along.

Nicola, You might try Under the Plains, Tom, for a possible Idaho bottle lead.😊❤

Gosh, am I glad to see you, Nicola! For some reason, I lost you for some months, but you're back! And you're so right, Tony Orlando & Dawn released the big 70s hit, 'Show me the way to Amarillo' and Burt Bacharach wrote the other, ' Do you know the way to San Jose', sung by Dionne Warwick. We can teach Bottle Ned something after all. My husband & I love to drive our boys nuts by breaking into song when they utter a phrase they think they've invented 🤣

i remember scrounging deposit bottles as a kid back in the 70s to come up with money for our family vacation. brings back a lot of happy memories from vacation. congrats paullette!

Hello Bottle Ned. I never have seen one of those early coke bottles before. Very interesting video, I love including the birds. Wow, Santa Maria, CA, 20 mile north of me!

What an education! I never knew that much about Coke bottling. Loved the Coke advertising films! And Nicola had to come to our country to enlighten us all.

What a treat, took 30 mins in for me to realize I know that canal, having lived there on a sailboat, in the 1970s. Didn't know about the Coca Cola connection but I do remember lots of tennis balls floating out to the bay after big storms. Guess there was a racket club upstream back then. We would fish them out for my ball-crazed dog. Congrats on the fun find!

An interesting trip to the United States, California bottling location. Really rare finds. Hopefully, you’ll go back again. Glad to see you again, and see you on the next, Nicola. Cheers ma’am! 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸

22:45 Kingfisher! I love hearing those, but good luck ever photographing them well, haha. So skittish.

It was unfair of them to tease you about the song. “Is this the way to Amarillo” is definitely a hit song. Apparently not as big in the US as it was in the UK.

Love how you emphasize and love the imprints in mud your finds make and showing them to us 💞👊

Excellent video Nicola! I love the old adverts, so funny but such lies they told back then....Coke is pure and wholesome?!!! Good to see Ned and Paige again and yes I knew the 'Amarillo' song you mentioned which will now stay in my head all day 😂💖x

In the 1950’s I collected both soda & beer bottles turning them in for the deposit and averaged $10/week. I was rich. Bought my own bicycle & push reel mower….thus paper route & lawn jobs. The rest is history!

Lovely to see, Ned, Page and Jan loved the old clips of the story behind coke bottles. Well done for getting the best bottle of the day, the markings on the art deco bottle were very nice and good to hear all the info. On the names on the base of the bottles, looked a good day

gotta love the competitive nature we yanks possess. brits are so supportive & complimentary…truly gracious. not us! we’re like a rowdy bunch of 12-yr-old boys trying to outdo each other!

Oh ! I was shouting out Tony Christie (Amarillo song) look it up, it is interesting. Dear Nicola, how fortunate we are in UK to have 'real' history', by the way I HATE cola . . . devil's concoction . . . just saying. Love your videos, thank you.

I see San Francisco! Welcome!

Nicola always has the best luck, and I’m convinced it’s because she is the nicest person!!

Thank you my friend for another insight into other times and other places. Thank you too for simply being you - our lives are the richer for your presence .

The bottle is really interesting! It always amazes me that so many intact bottles are found!

The art deco bottle you found was made near where I live in Idaho so that was an especially interesting find. Great video! Thanks, Nicola!

I'm American and love the way you say "bottle"!! It's my favorite word to hear you say!

What a pleasant and knowledgeable man-he could get me addicted ! His glass bottling info is fascinating

What a Brilliant piece of history. I've said it before, I always learn something new from your videos! Many thanks.❤ UK.

Thank you for the video and bringing us along on your trip to California to meet Bottle Ned and gang.

Nicola - you have a nice voice - enjoyed yr singing to us.

😂 I love the song at the end. 👏👏 And you singing, you can sing. 👏👏 You guys are such a hoot. The bottle competition is on!! 😂

Such wonderful history behind the old coke bottle. It reminds me of my early years in the 70's, (I was born in '68) having fish and chips on the beach with my beloved parents. Happy days. Thank you Nicola xx Teresa ❤🇦🇺. P.S. I like the way you say bottle, so it's all good xx t

When I was a young kid in the early 1970s the bottle deposit was a whole 5¢. Everything was glass, from single serving bottles in machines where you pulled the bottle out, to 32oz bottles that could be bought in packs of 6 in a reusable plastic carton with a handle. 2 liter plastic showed up in Texas right around I think 1980. For a short time there were even 3 liter bottles, but they were too much to handle. Those old glass bottles were tough. It would be possible to make a machine that could wash and fill and cap with any number of drinks into simpler modern glass bottles. Maybe someday.

Bottle Ned certainly knows how to make an outing like that fun. Well done all around.

Hey Nicola ✨️ An excellent Bottle Ned adventure #Idaho 🍾 & #PearlHarbour41 😂😂 Back in 96, I was on my honeymoon and on a 4 day whale watching trip. We would stop off and visit deserted islands in and around Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Strait. One island had fallen 300 year old totem poles and a pebble beach full of coloured glass pebbles, all from broken drink bottles tossed into the sea by the indigenous people who once inhabited the island, broken & rounded by the tides. Loved this one, full of banter, history facts and fun. 😂✨️🧡☯️🕊☮️🙏🍾🫶

Grew up in Santa Cruz, CA. - as kids, we'd wait till the soda delivery truck showed up @ local grocery & ask really nicely if he had any 'extras ', lol. As long as we didn't abuse it, there were always a couple btls for us :) And then we could get the 5cent btl return:)

The Coca-cola bottle,so iconic that one can easily forget all the minute changes to its design over the years. The Idaho bottle,surely,it contained potato soda,enhanced aesthetically by a variety of artificial colors and flavors(colours and flavours?)

You're here! You're here! Welcome to Marin! Mudlarking in SR canal. Waving from Novato!!!😂

Hi Nicola, i remember that back in 1971 Tony Christie had a hit with that song 😊 ( Is this the way to Amarillo) 😍Oh yes back in the days.

I love seeing this Americana Brit symbiosis and mutual friendship. You do have a magic touch it seems!

I'm watching this from Lincoln, Nebraska. I enjoyed the broken local bottle. Thanks!

Collecting deposit soda bottles went on right through, at least the 1960's. I paid for candy and comic books with bottle return money in the late 60's.

Nicola, you were correct with the song, "Show me the way to Amarillo." The deposit collected for bottles were 2 cents for soda bottles and 5 cents for quart size. We called them tonic bottles in Massachusetts.

You were right about the Amarillo song! Great song and sung very well.

What a lovely day out you had with Ned, Nic! I love your Idaho bottle, and Ive never seen one before!!!❤

When I was a kid in Oregon we did the same savaging pop bottles. A bottle was worth .02 cents and the large quart bottles were .05 cents. Oregon enacted one of the first bottle bills where most drink bottles and soda cans are Charged .10 cents each at the store. They can be returned for your money. Now homeless and some of our migrants keep the landscape clean by picking up all they can find! This also includes cans!

After settling your dispute by singing “is this the way to Amarillo?” a mike drop would have destroyed poor Ned 🙈🤣 cheers Nicola🍻

Beautiful English accent and the way you say “bottle” is awesome !!!! 💞👊👍🏻

another good one Nicola thanks

In the 60's in the states bottle deposits were 2 cents. Went to 3 cents late 60's. Now are 10 cents in states that do deposits!