If you're older than dirt, you'll remember . . .
If you're older than dirt and lived in the city, you'll remember the milk man delivering milk and dairy to the door and picking up the returnable glass bottles. Also, there was a egg delivery man and a bread man making deliveries. There was also delivery from the pharmacy and the grocery stores.
We lived in the country and didn't have these services, but when we would go to stay with my grandparents, we were shocked to see how modern the city was and thought those services would last forever.
We lived in the country and didn't have these services, but when we would go to stay with my grandparents, we were shocked to see how modern the city was and thought those services would last forever.
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I think that would make you older than whatever came before dirt.[:D] 0 -
those services are comming back 0 -
Yep,my grandparents lived in town and I was amazed that a truck came around and hauled your trash away. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by dheffley
If you're older than dirt and lived in the city, you'll remember the milk man delivering milk and dairy to the door and picking up the returnable glass bottles. Also, there was a egg delivery man and a bread man making deliveries. There was also delivery from the pharmacy and the grocery stores.
We lived in the country and didn't have these services, but when we would go to stay with my grandparents, we were shocked to see how modern the city was and thought those services would last forever.
Actually, I remember this from my childhood in the early 1990s. We had a wooden box outside the door, and every few days we'd get a fresh delivery of milk and bread. These services still exist, but since most people already have to go to the grocery store once a week, why not just get it all done in one go.0 -
... and mail TWICE a day - once in the MORNING and again
in the AFTERNOON - by mailMEN!
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quote:Originally posted by fastcarsgofast
I think that would make you older than whatever came before dirt.[:D]
Cars didn't have airconditioning in those days, and on a 100 degree day, we would talk the milkman into letting us climb in back of the truck and ride to the end of the road. Thought we were going to freeze to death!0 -
When I was growing up in Santa Monica in the early 1960s (I was born in 1955) we had our milk delivered and we purchased our bread products from the Helms Bakery truck which drove through an assigned route in our neighborhood. I remember that the bread on the truck was located in the center rear portion and that there were a series of drawers packed with doughnuts [:p]. Money was very tight in our immigrant household and even the few pennies for a doughnut was a major extravagance, but ever now and then my mother would purchase a few. Since we had only a single car in our family and my father needed it to go to work, home delivery of these basics made it possible for my mother to aviod a near two mile walk to the nearest market. 0 -
we had POTOMAC FARMS dairy and BUNNIE bread deliveries 0 -
Yes, I remember those days. As a little kid I liked opening the bottle and scooping some of the cream off the top. Sipping that pure cream occasionally made for some loose stools.[:D] 0 -
When I married my wife in 1983, milk man still came to her mom's house, along with the Charles Chip guy. When I went on my weekly summer visit to my great-grandparents back in the late 60's and early 70's, they didn't know what a milk man was. We went and got the milk straight from the "source." Nothing like getting slapped with a tail full of crap at 6:00 am to wake a kid up! Heck, even though they had indoor plumbing at the time, I still thought it was neat to go use their outhouse every time I had to go. That lasted until a wasp got me one summer on a very tender part of my body. [B)] 0 -
...and a/c in a car? Didn't know what that was. If we wanted to be cool, my 3 sisters and I sat in the bed of dad's truck everywhere we went. My first new vehicle was a 87 Ranger with no air. Didn't think I could afford it. It was a $250 option. [:o)] 0 -
There was a song: "Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet".
They did make a racket early in the mornings.
I remember horse drawn Sheffield milk wagons. They made sense having no idling engines when the wagons stopped every 50-100 ft at the next house. They existed till well after WW2.
Dugans also delivered bread, packaged donuts and buns and eggs.
There was often confusion in their favor on orders.
Milk, cream and bakery items delivery was a convenience before shopping carts and two car families and a necessity during WW2 when ,if you had a car and an "A" stamp, five gallons per week didn't do much for you..0 -
Remember when everybody had an Ice Card hanging on the front porch so the Ice Man would know what size block of ice to leave? [:D] 
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quote:Originally posted by Old-Colts
Yes, I remember those days. As a little kid I liked opening the bottle and scooping some of the cream off the top. Sipping that pure cream occasionally made for some loose stools.[:D]
So you're the one who did that! If my mother where still alive, she'd come down to Texas and give you a whoopin. [:D]0 -
Remember the 'dimmer button' on the floor of your
car(s)?0 -
quote:Originally posted by zipperzap
Remember the 'dimmer button' on the floor of your
car(s)?
Hell, I remember when that's where the starter was. [:D]0 -
quote:Originally posted by JamesRK
quote:Originally posted by Old-Colts
Yes, I remember those days. As a little kid I liked opening the bottle and scooping some of the cream off the top. Sipping that pure cream occasionally made for some loose stools.[:D]
So you're the one who did that! If my mother where still alive, she'd come down to Texas and give you a whoopin. [:D]She wouldn't have to, my mother took care of that![:D][:D]0 -
quote:Originally posted by kristov
When I was growing up in Santa Monica in the early 1960s (I was born in 1955) we had our milk delivered and we purchased our bread products from the Helms Bakery truck which drove through an assigned route in our neighborhood. I remember that the bread on the truck was located in the center rear portion and that there were a series of drawers packed with doughnuts [:p]. Money was very tight in our immigrant household and even the few pennies for a doughnut was a major extravagance, but ever now and then my mother would purchase a few. Since we had only a single car in our family and my father needed it to go to work, home delivery of these basics made it possible for my mother to aviod a near two mile walk to the nearest market.
I remember all those drawers with doughnuts. I sure ate a lot of doughnuts in those days!0 -
Guess I'm even older that older than dirt because I remember when we had to go to the farmer to get the milk. There was no delivery service. You either bought it direct from the farmer or bought either real milk or the new fangled processed milk at the store. Take your own gallon glass bottles to the farmer and get them filled for 25 cents a gallon. I used to walk about a 1/4 mile to the barn and get 2 gallons every other day. 0 -
If your older than dirt you can remember going to the ice house for a block of ice for the ice box to keep the milk in [8D] 0 -
I remember when my uncle and aunt came out to Detroit to buy
their caddies, back in '54, they had an 'electric eye' thingamabob
that was mounted on the dash! It would 'sense' oncoming headlights
at night and dim THEIR headlights!!!
... now THAT was 'slicker than snot!'
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quote:Originally posted by zipperzap
I remember when my uncle and aunt came out to Detroit to buy
their caddies, back in '54, they had an 'electric eye' thingamabob
that was mounted on the dash! It would 'sense' oncoming headlights
at night and dim THEIR headlights!!!
... now THAT was 'slicker than snot!'
[8D]
Yeah, except they didn't dim until you were about fifty yards from the other vehicle. The other vehicle would flash their lights a couple of times and then give you the brights. You were always driving into bright lights. Maybe that's why they don't use that now.0 -
We had milk deliveries in the country when I was a kids. The Anderson/ Ericson Company, or AE, made deliveries up to the seventies I believe. Now we have the Schwann's man doing deliveries of frozen foods and ice creame. They have good food but pricy and their salesmen get a little pushy, so I had them stop coming. 0 -
We didn't have an ice house, but the ice man came every Friday with a new block. Us kids used to love it when on a hot day he would give us each a small piece of ice. [:p] 0 -
I used to carry - in a large hatbox - a large round mirror, in my
great grandmother's car - on the back seat.
Whenever someone came up too close behind her with their bright
beams on - she'd bark out the command to 'man the mirror!'
After the surprised driver would almost vear off the road, behind us,
we'd all break out in a hearty and long laugh!
That was in the late 40's in/about Philadelphia!
... it never failed to work!
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I also remember the fire department used to open the hydrants for the kids to
play in, down in the hot city, on August days!
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Smith Bros still delivers milk today.
I just bought a 69 Nova with a dimmer button on the floor.
The good old days aren't all gone yet. Isn't that a country western song?
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Thought the Smith Bros. used to sell cough dtops!
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quote:Originally posted by iluvguns
Nothing like getting slapped with a tail full of crap at 6:00 am to wake a kid up!
It was even worse when it was freezin! You didn't want to catch that thing and hold it between your shoulder and your ear and it'ud hurt like the dickens with that ice in it. [:D]
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quote:Originally posted by zipperzap
Thought the Smith Bros. used to sell cough dtops!
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Must have been the other Smith Brother.[;)]
The one in Auburn, WA sells milk.0
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