April 1960 – KOL Seattle has an annual promotion involving the drop of “booty bottles” filled with merchandise certificates. Some 1,300 of these plastic eight-ounce flasks, containing station call letters and insignia, are dropped in the water areas around Seattle. “Since these bottles are distributed at the rate of 100 per day, we have found aircraft the only feasible and certainly the most economical method of doing so,” the station reported.
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March 14, 2025 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
Robert O. might ponder…”Wouldn’t it be weird if someone found a Booty Bottle today and inside was the necklace Rose threw over the side of the Titanic?”