Old brown Clorox bottles

[franksdad]

Ya'll may have asked this before but I am curious if anyone here other than me is fascinated by the old brown Clorox bottles. I love all old bottles, milk botles, etc., but I have a "thing" for the brown glass Clorox bottles. I remember when I was a child riding my bike over to this old abandoned home place and finding old brown Clorox bottles, old Texize bottles, old gallon glass Texize Fluff bottles, old PineSol bottles, old blue Milk of Magnesia bottles, etc. I would line the bottles up and shooot them with my by b-b gun. There must have been thousands of bottles at that old home place. For several years now I have been collecting brown Clorox bottles and some Texize bottles. (Texize was a local manufacturer of bleach, fabric softener, and other household cleaners). My goal, when I get my shop, is to have a shelf all aroound the top of the walls to display my collection. I wish I hadn't shot up all those old bottles and brought them home with me. That old home place was bulldozed down and a subdivision was built there back around the late 60's and early 1970's. Oh well, if I did bring them home I probably would have broken them or my mom would have made me throw them away. ~ Jim

 

[tomturbomatic]

I remember bleach bottles with the little ring at the top for a handle. I also remember the TV commercials when the new, easier-to-pour-from bottles came out. They featured some poor mountain girl with her finger hooked through the little ring of the old one and resting the jug on her shoulder like someone ready to take a swig from a jug of 'shine. Those glass bottles were heavy and hard to pour without splashing, especially when they were nearly full.

I also remember the glass bottles of Sta Puff and Texize Laundry Fluff and Wisk in round cans with the little red plastic cap. The lady who had the 33" WP combo used one cap of Wisk for a load of clothes.

Possibly the most dangerous things at that time were glass bottles of shampoo in showers. We would wet our hair, pull back the door and have a blob poured into our hands. We would start shampooing (like Kelvinators with shampoo action) and mom or dad would pull the glass door closed.

 

[westingman123]

prell!

We loved Prell in the glass bottle. Remember the commercial where they dropped a pearl in a full bottle? Got a serious beating for trying to duplicate that.

 

[gadgetgary]

They dropped a pearl in a full bottle

And my sister put that pearl up her nose!

 

Boy, did she get in trouble.

Took a trip to the emergency room to remove it.

 

 

 

[appnut]

I remember the glass brown clorox jugs.  I wonder how many broke and ruined  the inside of cars or other material.  Tom, I rmember my sisters have the glass bottles of breck shampoo. 

 

[kimball455]

Glass Bottles

Occasionally I see glass bottles for bleach and detergent etc. at estate sales in my area. Yes, they were easy to break. More than once a grocery bag has slipped breaking the glass bottle inside. Just glad it was salad dressing and not bleach. To make life easier I decant bleach into a small quart bleach bottle to make filling the dispenser on my Whirlpool Duet easier. I would be fun to have an old bleach bottle for that purpose.

 

[whirlcool]

And you haven't lived until you dropped one of those glass shampoo bottles in the shower and have it break!

There you are, naked and wet with broken glass all around you.

 

Thank goodness for plastic shampoo bottles!

 

Do they still even make Prell shampoo? I used to use it all the time. And it seems like Breck became a bargain basement brand.

 

[westingman123]

hmmmmm,

Now that I think of it, we NEVER took showers back then. It was baths, baths, baths, and hair got washed under the faucet.

As for the brown bleach bottles, I remember them at Grandma's (not our house, for some reason) along with the big brown Chlordane bottles on the front porch. Now, in retrospect, that wasn't such a smart setup!

 

[tolivac]

Yes,remember when cleaning and other home products came in the glass bottles and jars.And of course----Glass bottled Cokes,Pepsis,7-UP,etc-they seemed to taste so much better from the glass bottles instead of the plastic ones.Oh yes,sadly,glass bottles do make good targets-messy,but good-you know if you hit it.but the broken glass--MESSY!!!

 

[alr2903]

The late 50's early 60's steam irons required distilled water, I remember going with the folks to get a glass gallon of distilled water at the Rexall drug store.  There was a deposit on the jug, the folks always returned the empty. alr2903

 

 

 

[kenmore700bill]

Linit Starch, Sta Puff, Royox, Lestoil, Bull Dog Bluing bottles. Lets not forget the Welches Grape Jelly Glasses. I remember them well. These were popular items in my house when I was growing up. And yes they still make Prell shampoo in a plastic bottle.

 

[112561]

I bought a bottle of Revlon Aquamarine shampoo in glass, from the first drugstore in River Park, dating to the late '50s, I might have bought it before 1975, it was years later, for sure. Wish I'd looked around a lot more, did get a PaperMate Capri pen in silver with Detergent Action in the refill.

 

[jamiel]

You see Roman Cleanser bottles around here. My partner's nephew collects stuff and has a Sno-Bol bottle in brown glass...used for "...toilets and car radiators"...

 

[laundromat]

I currently have a brown Clorox bottle and it's in fair condition. The handle was broken when I found it during a dig I went to with the Cousins. They're identical twin brothers who collect and sell old glass works.There is an old soda pop factory site where they used to bottle Honoka'a cola and other soft drinks. It shut down in 1941 and there are many old bottles to be found. We used a John Deere Side loader and dug up about 35 feet once we found the old bottles still intact.Each one is estimated at being worth as much as $500!They sell them on ebay.