In the 1960s, most soda pop was sold in reusable glass bottles, but in the 1970s these were replaced by cans and plastic. The last Coca Cola plant to produce reusable bottles closed in 2012.
After this podcast was produced, I also learned that Coke had ended production of Tab.
Back in 2006, Alison S. M. Kobayashi produced a video based on an answering machine tape she found in a thrift shop.
Moses Asch created Folkways Records in 1948 to document the beautiful and extraordinary diversity of human expression through sound.
From Chicago’s Maxwell Street to Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, it can be a dog eat dog world.
Harvey’s Chicken Shack is one of many little restaurants in Chicago’s Bronzeville that may have faded from memory. But with the help of archivists like those at The Obsidian Collection, the role these small businesses played in the community might be preserved.
Paul Mason Fotsch 