[Songcraft]

Where I lived, I can remember a time when you got two cents each for the smaller bottles, and a nickel for the quart-sized bottles, (until they came along with that "no-deposit, no-return", that poor kids hated).

[Keyhopper]

Every kid had a basket on their bikes just for bottles. Once you got a few it was off to the dime store for candy.
You could take the money or double that if you took it in candy. You could get a pretty big bag of candy.