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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How about the Fuller Brush Man? 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.
My dad WAS the milkman, and he was making his deliveries with a HORSE drawn buggy when he met/married my mother.0 -
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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.
I remember the little silver/grey insulated coolers on ours and other peoples front porch for the delivery driver to place the milk in. Smith Brothers delivery guy.0 -
How about the horse drawn wagon with the driver yelling up and down the streets "Rag Man" 0 -
The Florsheim Man? The Fuller Brush Man? The Avon Lady? The Tin Man - sold and fixed pots and pans? The Rag Man? The Man who sold Knives and sharpened them? The Fishmonger? All were available in New York City into the late 50s, something I only saw when I visited my GrandMother - we had nothing like that in rural Texas.
I remember how amazing it was to have so much paved roads in NYC - seemed like most roads in Texas were two lanes of dirt or mud (depending on the season) - I remember my Mom driving over 100 mph on dirt roads of Texas in our brand New '57 Chevy.
Village Blacksmith, where this man with Enormous hands and Arms would "Play" with Fire, and bang metal, and make things and fix things...I watched him for hours...0 -
I must be older thaN THE REST OF YOU; AS i REMEMBER ALL PLUS.
gETTING WATER FROM THE SPRING : KEROSENE LAMPS ; NO PHONE SERVICE ; VERY FEW CARS ( WE DID NOT HAve one ) ' battery powered radio ; no blacktop road in town ( closest blacktop about 10 mi.)0 -
i remember the truck looked like this: 
the name our our milk company was isaly's0 -
We even had Charlies Chips delivered to our door! But better than that Ralston's store had a big old truck and had darn near a complete grocery store in it!!! Even Guns and toys. Kerosene too! Plus what he didn't have you could order for next Saturday! 0 -
dipits, I must be there close to ya as I can remember going to the spring after water, next house we lived in had a hand pump at the end of the sink. Kerosene lamps and a wood cookstove was all we had until I was about 8. Also remember going out thru the wood shed the outhouse. Most of the roads were tarred (not paved), except the one we lived on. Also remember in high school no one thought anything of a kid bringing his rifle or shotgun to school. We would stand them in the corner of the coat room and pick them up after school. Every fall I would have my .22 with me as I was running a trap line and would check part of it in the morning and part after school then hunt rabbits and grouse until supper time or as the days got shorter and time changed dark. 0 -
Crank phones were still around in the country - party lines
provided a lot of gossips a lot to talk about amongst their
friends.
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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.
My dad WAS the milkman, and he was making his deliveries with a HORSE drawn buggy when he met/married my mother.
Most kids don't know that the milkman is their father.0 -
Anybody remember the "Jewel T" man? 0 -
""GOOD NIGHT, Mrs. C _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ~ wherever you are!""
... was said by whom, after every show? ... and who was she?
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Jimmy Durante at the end of each show signed off by saying "Goodnight Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are". Possibly a woman named Lucy Coleman that ran a restaurant in Calabash, North Carolina, but who knows for sure. 0 -
I thought it was his wife!!!
Anyway here is a video of him ending his show!!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp7r0j4XrO80 -
Waaaaaatermelon, Sweeeeeet Corn, Tomatoooos, Greeen beans, Can-ta-lope... I can still hear the old guy in his truck driving around selling produce from his truck garden. Tomatoes the size of saucers and full of sugar, nothing like todays greenhouse grown tomatos. Never did know his name.
JamesRK is it true you remember when ice was invented?0 -
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JamesRK is it true you remember when ice was invented?
Remember it? Hell, I invented it. [;)]
You sure get a lot of mileage out of being two weeks younger than I am. [:D]0 -
Well hell, you are the only guy in the universe I am younger than![^][:p] 0 -
Then there was the junkman with horse drawn wagon and cowbells calling
"I cash old clothes". He bought anything from housewives including old watches and jewelry.
The guy with the grinder truck, ground scissors, knives and fixed umbrellas.
The iceman had a horse drawn wagon packed with rectangular blocks of ice about 10x10x36" or about 125-150# / block.
He'd chip off a 10cent block with an ice pick and carry it into your apartment with ice tongs. He also carried kerosine. Kids hung around the wagon for a chip of ice. I recall the faint rainbow color of ice with kerosine on it.
Except for soda fountains and air conditioned movies, I dont think the good old days were so hot.0 -
I actually still remember seeing a 'rag man' and his cart in downtown Philly - was
probably 1948. I can remember thinking it was funny for a grown man to collect
rags and pull them along in a pile on his 'wagon.'0 -
"Good night mister and misses North and South America and all the ships at sea". Was that the signoff of news caster, Gabriel Heater or Walter Winchell? 0 -
WW
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