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
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’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 🔥🔥🇬🇧🇺🇸
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.
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!😊
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 !!! ♥️🙂
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
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!!
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.
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.
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!
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 🤣
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 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💜
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.
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.😃
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!
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.
Thank you. Yes, you're absolutely right. And honestly it is such a fantastic vintage video. if you google coca cola on internet archive you will find some more real gems
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
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!
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.
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! 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸
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!
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
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!
Great Idaho bottle,I always find Bottle Ned’s intelligence amazing coming from such a crazy guy!Good to see the gathering of friends on such a beautiful day!❤
@@nicolawhitemudlarkhe might know bottles but he sure doesn't know 60s pop. I sang along with you and was most offended when he said you were wrong. Now I have the song 🎵 stuck in my brain "and sweet Marie who waits for me"! 🎶
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:)
Just glad you found a great bottle. I also wanted to let you know Coca-Cola had an earlier bottle, it is a straight side coke bottle. Love your channel
You’re more correct with the Amarillo song. “(Is this the way to) Amarillo” was written by Neil Sedaka and was a hit for Tony Christie in 1972. Peter Kay did a comedy cover of it in 2005. “Do you know the way to San Jose” is a Burt Bacharach and Hal David song that was first a hit for Dionne Warwick.
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!
Wow, an other spectacular adventure ! You have a special gift for finding rare, unique and beautiful specimen👍. And by the way great voice 😉. Merci pour cette vidéo ❤
This was a great, fun video. Back in the day I used to go on Saturday nights to a dancing place where we would line dance. It was in El Paso, way out west. A guy who played there was Terry Bullard, he had a song called "Amarillo by Morning". I thought about it when you were talking about your song. Anyway thanks again for really interesting content.
So I’ve decided to start following bottle Ned and been watching some of his content and I must say I am hooked because he also gives a little bit of history in between the bottles he finds. I did want to mention something odd though. During one of his most recent Explorations with a group of his cohorts, he casually mentioned in between sniffling that …” oh by the way, I have Covid”. Which I thought was very inconsiderate of him to expose his illness amongst his group. I don’t know how recent it had been since you have seen him and since he was sick but I just wanted to let you know you might have been exposed to one of the variants. Since he was so casual about it I didn’t know if he shared that with you at any point. But onto other things I want to say that I extremely appreciate all the history, research and pure joy that you give to your audience. Your bubbly nature and sweet personality are just a wonderful bonus to your amazing mud-larking content! Keep up the great work!!🥰 my husband and I look forward to every Sunday with our cup of coffee and get prepared to be thoroughly engaged in your material..
Thanks for the well wishes Nicola... looks like you had an amazing time in California. I am sad to say I've been quite sick the last 2 or 3 weeks. Though tests say no I think I caught the covid... though again tests would say otherwise... I sure felt very sick. I'm finally starting to feel better... but back to work next weekend... so yeah. No more fever so that's good. Looks like a fantastic time... California is so pretty... it's been forever since I was there... I don't travel much. I think my sister went there about the same time you were there with her bestie... I believe... anyway... looks like it was a fun time and congrats on the finds!
This was glorious! IMvHO one of your very best in terms of content & production. I'm sure you enjoyed the piecing togetbrer the art, interest, and absorbing, creative, outflows. Thank you & VBW x
Nicola, you had the song right! Show me the way to Amarillo, every night I've been hugging my pillow, dreaming dreams of Amarillo and sweet Marie who waits for me.... Sing it Nicola!
Pop always tastes better from a glass bottle! I never knew that Coca-Cola used to stamp their bottles with the various places in the USA from where the drink was manufactured and I guess you'd have dig through a lorra bottles to find a complete vintage Coca-Cola bottle! I found an old complete with metal lid glass Lucozade bottle out on the foreshore a few weeks ago, the recognisable little bobbles around the neck but the paper label had long gone, I didn't bring it home and instantly regretted it later as I remember these bottles from years ago. I'm lucky enough to have a couple of complete old Pepsi bottles and a complete old Fling bottle from the Thames foreshore but I admit that when I was little I used to go round collecting discarded Corona bottles that used to have the returnable 10p deposit and the proceeds would be spent on Penny Sweets in the same shop 😂. With plastics being such a problem its sad to see that it has not seen a return of the return/deposit scheme that was so popular of yesteryear -if some of it went back to a glass return/deposit scheme there would be less plastic bottles being produced and often discarded ❤ xx
Hi , I have some collection of bottles, cans, and merchandise of Coca-Cola and Pepsi. I have made a few videos on them too . I have a aqua green coke bottle. Really enjoyed watching the beautiful video and information about Coca-Cola and other bottles. And I am already with bottleNed . Enjoy and make more videos. You know what ??? One of your video without any Pipe 😂 With love from SAM Guwahati, Assam , India 🇮🇳 ♥️
I’d take broken ones with complete bottoms and cut off the bottoms and then mount them onto a frame. Would look cool with all those different locations marked on the bottoms.
There was a Coke bottling factory opposite my school ,it had huge windows that enabled you to see everything that was going on.I would make rude gestures and really annoy the young women employees who would hurry out to sort me out but I would be gone ! Now I'm a great Grandma, and I know I shouldn't but I still laugh .I was a cheeky girl ,love❤from Scotland xxJanieDundee
Wow, I’m 73 years old and I can remember at a young age picking up Coke bottles or any kind of glass soda bottle, the larger the bottle, the more it was worth. Typically regular Coke bottles were two cents and bigger bottles were a nickel, and that was my money for the candy store. Good times! My first job!
Don't know that song about Amarillo, but will try to find it. There is a country song by George Strait called "Amarillo by Morning" and some of the lyrics are..."Amarillo by morning, up from San Antone, everything that I got, is what I got on. When that sun is high in that Texas sky..." etc. Anyway, peace and love from the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.❤
Great finds. I love all the Coke bottles from so many places in America. Your song Show me the way to Amarillo was right. Love your American mudlarking adventure Nicola ❤😊
What for cool 😎 finds. I have an old brown Fanta bottle from the 70s. I love old bottles. My favorite is the Torpedo bottle and the Gingerbeer bottle. The engish bottles are the best. Have a good week. LG Susi from Blackforest 🌲 🌲🌲🌲👋👋👋🥰🥰🥰😘😘😘
Nic,you should reach out to digger Dave, he has a channel and I have never seen him get stumped on a bottle. He has a vast knowledge of everything to do with bottles.
Many ppl (even my age) don't remember but there were many independent soda companies in different towns and cities. Prior to the "corporations" buying up and forcing out any competition. Also, the bottles were the true "recycling" which was much better than we have today. In Calif we have to pay a 10 cent "fee"(tax) on every plastic bottle but instead of being able to return it to the store, you can take it to a recycler and get 10 cents but only up to $5. If you have more than that, you are paid by weight of the plastic. Somehow I don't believe I am getting all my "deposit" back. And I don't know what entity of the Calif gov gets to keep that revenue.
I remember Fling! Our school tuck shop sold it in the 1960s in Croydon. It was transparent orange in appearance (like Lucozade) but I don't remember it being orange flavoured. i also seem to remember that the crown cap was green. I had never come across it before, and I have never seen it since!
Dude, the 1940s? I grew up in the 60s and 70s and I was still saving up pop bottles in order to go buy candy bar. Soda with plastic screw tops did not come in until the mid-1980s, but they didn’t really take off until the mid-90s
Lovely video this weekend ! I hope you have the only bottle in the world ! My quiet time is spending time with you ! Hope you have a wonderful day ❤ stay safe.
Now that I have watched your video entirely I see you found out yourself that you were right with the Amarillo song😊. Thanks for the nice bottle video and have a good week, love Nicole.
I drove from Austin TX to Kerrville TX to see my best friend. I went Friday leaving just after 11 and back this afternoon, getting home just at dark. I saw her a couple of weeks ago before I went to the ENT to look at my broken nose. So, I had a good weekend. Oh, and today is my sister's birthday! Oh, Amarillo, we used to have the kind of local weather channel and the computer voice always said it kind of like "Amm-a-ree-looo" now, whenever I hear about Amarillo, and I do live in Texas, I always want to say it like the computer did all those decades ago.
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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 is now also my ear worm! xx
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!
really!!
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!
Thank you! I had a lot of fun sourcing that footage and the old commercials and I really learned a lot!
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. 🎉
So glad you enjoyed!!
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 🔥🔥🇬🇧🇺🇸
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.
The way you say "Bottle" is absolutely charming. love your accent!
I'm American and I think the same thing! I love the way she says it!
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!😊
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 !!! ♥️🙂
Thank you Deborah! xox
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
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!!
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.
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.
Thank you Elizabeth. Id love to see that. xox
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!
oh Laura that is such a funny story! And also, Im sorry we didn't meet. Next time Im there I'll let people know xox
I too would have loved to have met her also. She is such a wonderful person.
Watching this fun video has made my day better. Thank you for taking me along.
What a great story, i love how you get knowledge of other cultures … Hello from Denmark 🇩🇰🗝️
We collected bottles also. Even in the early 1980's we bought glass and turned them in. I miss having the glass bottles. Tasted better.
When Ned found the Grace Bros. bottle, how could you not have mentioned "Are You Being Served?"?
I really should have
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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 🤣
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
Thank you! We aim to please x
Fabulous film Nicola, what great guy Bottle Ned is. As always, unusually and absolutely facinating stuff....thanks for taking us along.
Thanks Tony!
Thank you for the video and bringing us along on your trip to California to meet Bottle Ned and gang.
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.
Nicola...you were right...”is this the way to Amarillo”......he was thinking of....”do you know the way to San Jose”🤩
ha ha - everyone was getting lost!
I’m waiting for the encore....”pardon me boy, is this the Chattanooga Choo Choo”?...continuing the theme of people gone astray in the U.S. 😂🤩
Love how you emphasize and love the imprints in mud your finds make and showing them to us 💞👊
"Grace Brothers" just makes me think of Are You Being Served? 😆
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.😃
That would be great if you found out that Nicola has one of a kind!
@@lynnerodgers4461 I'll do my best!
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!
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.
Thank you. Yes, you're absolutely right. And honestly it is such a fantastic vintage video. if you google coca cola on internet archive you will find some more real gems
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
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!
Thank you!
You were right about the Amarillo song! Great song and sung very well.
I love seeing this Americana Brit symbiosis and mutual friendship. You do have a magic touch it seems!
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 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.
oh fab, and funny enough I have a large fling bottle too! so briliant that you remember it
Bottle Ned certainly knows how to make an outing like that fun. Well done all around.
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! 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸
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!
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
Liked Nicola Beverages. Intoxicating!
3:01 send Nicola and all the animals will come...
Another absolutely fascinating episode btw 👍
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!
ha ha :)
Congrats Paulette! Thanks for sharing your found bottles!
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What a Brilliant piece of history. I've said it before, I always learn something new from your videos! Many thanks.❤ UK.
so glad you enjoyed David
Wonderful friends having a good time.
Great Idaho bottle,I always find Bottle Ned’s intelligence amazing coming from such a crazy guy!Good to see the gathering of friends on such a beautiful day!❤
After settling your dispute by singing “is this the way to Amarillo?” a mike drop would have destroyed poor Ned 🙈🤣 cheers Nicola🍻
ha ha!
@@nicolawhitemudlarkhe might know bottles but he sure doesn't know 60s pop. I sang along with you and was most offended when he said you were wrong. Now I have the song 🎵 stuck in my brain "and sweet Marie who waits for me"! 🎶
So interesting. Clever you finding that soda bottle.
another good one Nicola thanks
Beautiful English accent and the way you say “bottle” is awesome !!!! 💞👊👍🏻
Thank you! I don't know how to say it any other way :)
Really enjoy your vedios. This was a great one
Thank you! ❤️ Xx
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:)
Just glad you found a great bottle. I also wanted to let you know Coca-Cola had an earlier bottle, it is a straight side coke bottle. Love your channel
brilliant thank you!
You’re more correct with the Amarillo song. “(Is this the way to) Amarillo” was written by Neil Sedaka and was a hit for Tony Christie in 1972. Peter Kay did a comedy cover of it in 2005. “Do you know the way to San Jose” is a Burt Bacharach and Hal David song that was first a hit for Dionne Warwick.
These shapes are so much more attractive than today's, I don't know why they don't make them like that any more.
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!
I love how you always find the wildlife on your expeditions.
Grace Brothers!!! "Are You Being Serveed?"
Wow, an other spectacular adventure ! You have a special gift for finding rare, unique and beautiful specimen👍. And by the way great voice 😉. Merci pour cette vidéo ❤
Merci Francine ❤
Grace Brothers - I just think 'Are you being served?'
This was a great, fun video. Back in the day I used to go on Saturday nights to a dancing place where we would line dance. It was in El Paso, way out west. A guy who played there was Terry Bullard, he had a song called "Amarillo by Morning". I thought about it when you were talking about your song. Anyway thanks again for really interesting content.
Superb stuff Nicola. I loved every bit of your adventure.
So I’ve decided to start following bottle Ned and been watching some of his content and I must say I am hooked because he also gives a little bit of history in between the bottles he finds.
I did want to mention something odd though. During one of his most recent Explorations with a group of his cohorts, he casually mentioned in between sniffling that …” oh by the way, I have Covid”. Which I thought was very inconsiderate of him to expose his illness amongst his group. I don’t know how recent it had been since you have seen him and since he was sick but I just wanted to let you know you might have been exposed to one of the variants. Since he was so casual about it I didn’t know if he shared that with you at any point.
But onto other things I want to say that I extremely appreciate all the history, research and pure joy that you give to your audience. Your bubbly nature and sweet personality are just a wonderful bonus to your amazing mud-larking content! Keep up the great work!!🥰 my husband and I look forward to every Sunday with our cup of coffee and get prepared to be thoroughly engaged in your material..
Thank you! ❤
Thanks for the well wishes Nicola... looks like you had an amazing time in California. I am sad to say I've been quite sick the last 2 or 3 weeks. Though tests say no I think I caught the covid... though again tests would say otherwise... I sure felt very sick. I'm finally starting to feel better... but back to work next weekend... so yeah. No more fever so that's good. Looks like a fantastic time... California is so pretty... it's been forever since I was there... I don't travel much. I think my sister went there about the same time you were there with her bestie... I believe... anyway... looks like it was a fun time and congrats on the finds!
Thank you and I really hope you feel better soon xx
@@nicolawhitemudlark Thanks so much... always enjoy watching you... I hope to feel better very soon.
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!
This was glorious! IMvHO one of your very best in terms of content & production. I'm sure you enjoyed the piecing togetbrer the art, interest, and absorbing, creative, outflows. Thank you & VBW x
Thank you so much Glenn! You've made my evening! ox
So glad to see Nicola on this side of the pond.
Nicola, you had the song right! Show me the way to Amarillo, every night I've been hugging my pillow, dreaming dreams of Amarillo and sweet Marie who waits for me.... Sing it Nicola!
"...helped women being less pi**ed of in their period. " 🤣🤣 now that's a gripping advertise. I love this man.
Pop always tastes better from a glass bottle! I never knew that Coca-Cola used to stamp their bottles with the various places in the USA from where the drink was manufactured and I guess you'd have dig through a lorra bottles to find a complete vintage Coca-Cola bottle! I found an old complete with metal lid glass Lucozade bottle out on the foreshore a few weeks ago, the recognisable little bobbles around the neck but the paper label had long gone, I didn't bring it home and instantly regretted it later as I remember these bottles from years ago.
I'm lucky enough to have a couple of complete old Pepsi bottles and a complete old Fling bottle from the Thames foreshore but I admit that when I was little I used to go round collecting discarded Corona bottles that used to have the returnable 10p deposit and the proceeds would be spent on Penny Sweets in the same shop 😂.
With plastics being such a problem its sad to see that it has not seen a return of the return/deposit scheme that was so popular of yesteryear -if some of it went back to a glass return/deposit scheme there would be less plastic bottles being produced and often discarded ❤ xx
Hi , I have some collection of bottles, cans, and merchandise of Coca-Cola and Pepsi. I have made a few videos on them too . I have a aqua green coke bottle.
Really enjoyed watching the beautiful video and information about Coca-Cola and other bottles. And I am already with bottleNed . Enjoy and make more videos. You know what ??? One of your video without any Pipe 😂
With love from SAM
Guwahati, Assam , India 🇮🇳 ♥️
I’d take broken ones with complete bottoms and cut off the bottoms and then mount them onto a frame. Would look cool with all those different locations marked on the bottoms.
such a great idea
@@nicolawhitemudlark cheers Nicola, I saw the finished item in my minds eye, it looked good on the wall 🙂
Or made into a tabletop with clear epoxy resin.
@@snafufubar yeah that would be an effective creation as well, good call
There was a Coke bottling factory opposite my school ,it had huge windows that enabled you to see everything that was going on.I would make rude gestures and really annoy the young women employees who would hurry out to sort me out but I would be gone ! Now I'm a great Grandma, and I know I shouldn't but I still laugh .I was a cheeky girl ,love❤from Scotland xxJanieDundee
What a nice chap Ned is. Great video.
Amarillo By Morning , by George Strait 1973.... Good memory Nicola...Spot on! I really enjoy your videos. Keep on larking :)
My favorite song from George Strait
Wow, I’m 73 years old and I can remember at a young age picking up Coke bottles or any kind of glass soda bottle, the larger the bottle, the more it was worth. Typically regular Coke bottles were two cents and bigger bottles were a nickel, and that was my money for the candy store. Good times! My first job!
Great video...as usual 🤪👍❤
Don't know that song about Amarillo, but will try to find it. There is a country song by George Strait called "Amarillo by Morning" and some of the lyrics are..."Amarillo by morning, up from San Antone, everything that I got, is what I got on. When that sun is high in that Texas sky..." etc. Anyway, peace and love from the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.❤
stunning finds
Great finds. I love all the Coke bottles from so many places in America. Your song Show me the way to Amarillo was right. Love your American mudlarking adventure Nicola ❤😊
Thank you!
What for cool 😎 finds. I have an old brown Fanta bottle from the 70s. I love old bottles. My favorite is the Torpedo bottle and the Gingerbeer bottle. The engish bottles are the best. Have a good week. LG Susi from Blackforest 🌲 🌲🌲🌲👋👋👋🥰🥰🥰😘😘😘
That was so cool. Interesting location. So much information and history of soda bottles from all over the place.
I used to surf in Santa Cruz when I was a teen. So much fun! PS. I grew up in San Jose, lol.
Over 1400 American cities bottled Coca-Cola. I love it when you find them on the Thames.. what stories they could tell❤❤
When my brother took coke bottles to the corner shop for a refund, the shop owner didn't mind that they were full of algae and snails!! 😂
Nic,you should reach out to digger Dave, he has a channel and I have never seen him get stumped on a bottle. He has a vast knowledge of everything to do with bottles.
So cool congratulations 😊
Many ppl (even my age) don't remember but there were many independent soda companies in different towns and cities. Prior to the "corporations" buying up and forcing out any competition.
Also, the bottles were the true "recycling" which was much better than we have today. In Calif we have to pay a 10 cent "fee"(tax) on every plastic bottle but instead of being able to return it to the store, you can take it to a recycler and get 10 cents but only up to $5. If you have more than that, you are paid by weight of the plastic. Somehow I don't believe I am getting all my "deposit" back. And I don't know what entity of the Calif gov gets to keep that revenue.
Me thinks it's going directly into good ole Gov Newsom's pocket!
Thx Nicola 😊 🙏
Some of those bottles would make really good cut downs.
I remember Fling! Our school tuck shop sold it in the 1960s in Croydon. It was transparent orange in appearance (like Lucozade) but I don't remember it being orange flavoured. i also seem to remember that the crown cap was green. I had never come across it before, and I have never seen it since!
Another epic find ! Well done and I like the way you had entertainment with your friends. And History's stories so very interesting, as usual !
Thank you!
Dude, the 1940s? I grew up in the 60s and 70s and I was still saving up pop bottles in order to go buy candy bar. Soda with plastic screw tops did not come in until the mid-1980s, but they didn’t really take off until the mid-90s
Lovely video this weekend ! I hope you have the only bottle in the world ! My quiet time is spending time with you ! Hope you have a wonderful day ❤ stay safe.
Omg Lewiston is very close to me lucky find!
Now that I have watched your video entirely I see you found out yourself that you were right with the Amarillo song😊. Thanks for the nice bottle video and have a good week, love Nicole.
Thanks Nicola xx
Peter Kay used it alot in his sketches 😂😂😂
What a fun video!
I drove from Austin TX to Kerrville TX to see my best friend. I went Friday leaving just after 11 and back this afternoon, getting home just at dark. I saw her a couple of weeks ago before I went to the ENT to look at my broken nose. So, I had a good weekend. Oh, and today is my sister's birthday! Oh, Amarillo, we used to have the kind of local weather channel and the computer voice always said it kind of like "Amm-a-ree-looo" now, whenever I hear about Amarillo, and I do live in Texas, I always want to say it like the computer did all those decades ago.
What a fun video Nicola! Coca Cola is as American as Apple pie.❤
I wonder why they didn’t just throw the broken back into the hot glass process 🤔
I was thinking that.
I agree!!
I thought, “Amarillo by Morning” by George Strait. Very pretty song.