"because it had to do something with the glass bottles being made in Czechoslovakia, or something."

The bottles are marked Czechoslovakia. My dad was in the soda business for 43 years. When the company he worked for got rid of all their seltzer bottles my unlce filled his van with cases of them for 3 bucks a case if I recall correctly. I had so many cases at one time I use to give them away. I am now down to a few bottles. Being in the lighting business myself (as was my uncle who taught me) we made many of lamps out of them.

Up until a few years ago I was still buying and using these bottles from a company that was filling them. I think there is still a company in the Bronx who does that.

Besides how else can you make an egg cream with out them.
Barry