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If you're older than dirt, you'll remember . . .
dheffley
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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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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.
in the AFTERNOON - by mailMEN!
[:D]!
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!
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
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..
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]
car(s)?
Remember the 'dimmer button' on the floor of your
car(s)?
Hell, I remember when that's where the starter was. [:D]
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]
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
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!
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]
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.
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!
[:D]
play in, down in the hot city, on August days!
[:D]
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?
AC
[:D]
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]
Allen
Thought the Smith Bros. used to sell cough dtops!
[:D]
Must have been the other Smith Brother.[;)]
The one in Auburn, WA sells milk.
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.
quote:Originally posted by zipperzap
Thought the Smith Bros. used to sell cough dtops!
[:D]
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.
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...
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.)
the name our our milk company was isaly's
provided a lot of gossips a lot to talk about amongst their
friends.
[:D]