Memories

Foster Farms headquarters were/are in my area. You could also get cottage cheese, butter, chocolate and buttermilk, chicken and eggs delivered to your door. Just leave a note with a list of what you wanted.

We had two Smith Brothers employers visit out new house in 1961, asking if we wanted milk delivery in glass bottles. It was a Tuesday. We told them, "if you leaver two gallon jugs of milk, we will have them emptied and washed out when you come Thursday." They didn't believe us, but they sure did when they came back Thursday. LOL. We had lived on a ranch with cows, horses, chickens, etc., so we were used to milking cows and drinking lots of milk. The cats would drink squirts right from the cow!

that is cool clive......I wish we still had delivery......
it really was ellen......he did our route to our summer house also......he was an old man.....when I first knew him.....and still the same old man the last time I saw him......kids don't bother much with detail..lol

One of my older neighboures still has her milk delivered in a pint bottle every day and left outside of her house some things never stop I am pleased to say.

What a wonderful scene from a happy childhood, Robin! :o)

our milk man had a horse drawn dray type cart...and he allowed us to chip off bits of ice to eat as we played.......he always brought the ice into the icebox and had a riddle for us to solve......I thought he was so lucky to have this job.....I can see him now as I am thinking of it.....great memories

Right, LD.

I haven't read all these comments, but not only do I remember milk being delivered in bottles - I remember milk being delivered into the billycan we left out overnight at the gate. The milkman came by horse-drawn cart, and the milkman decanted milk from the back, then came onto our property to fill the billycan. If he didn't put the top back on, by the time we went to bring it in a few insects, twigs, etc might have fallen in. Didn't matter in those days!

That was in 1982 when I was studying in London (UK).

Right!!!

@ParsonWayne Creamsicle here in Montreal are the same as where you are.I think it's the Space Bars, the orange sherbet ones, that had Heidi intrigued.Hey, it's all cold and refreshing on a hot sunny day, right !

In my part of 'Merica, Creamsicles were vanilla ice cream on the inside with orange sherbert on the outside. I think that was what Heidi was describing.

No they are not PW, one is vanilla ice cream and one is orange cream sherbet.one is depiied on chocolate and one is dipped in orange

They are the same thing, Heidi.

I thought Orange Dream bars were the same as Creamsicles. Schwam's calls them Dream Bars, I believe. I never heard of the sherbetty kind dipped in chocolate. They sound yummy.

@Surreal_Heidi Tell me, are what you call Orange Dream Bars the same as we called Space Bars here ? Ours were an orange kind of ice creamy-sherbety orange bar enrobed in chocolate.We also had Creamsicles, vanilla ice cream bar enrobed in orange.

Schwan's still sells orange Dream Bars. They're a home delivery service that started with ice creams and have now branched out to many foods. They're based in Minnesota, but deliver to many states. They visit me every other Thursday around 2 PM. I'm hooked on their Strawberry Fruit Bars. And their thin crust gluten-free pizzas.

How about the orange Dream Bars? Do you remember them?

I remember the ice man, and the ice pick he used to break off blocks of ice.

He also brought Ice blocks as well.

Still does :))

We still have our milk box by the back door. It's a relic. Our cats used it as their private door though the years. I had a little curtain over it to prevent insects from coming in too. We locked it every winter. I had to close it for good when the cats started bringing live gifts very proudly. Not acceptable. That was a long time ago.

Check out the Moxie Horse Mobile on Google. I saw it in the mid-1950s in Greenfield, Massachusetts when it stopped a Ruggeri's Market on Deerfield Street.

That's an interesting memory Vips. I guess you had to get that milk in a hurry! @olando

That's why we midwestern Americans used milk boxes, olando. Birds and pets couldn't get to the milk.

Oh I remember. The lid was made of thin alu, and the great tits and blue tits, were quick to come by, pick a hole in the lid and steal the cream.

He still does!

I recall the milkman delivering the round bottles right to the insulated box near he back door.

So, no kids for your kids, Jerry? LOL

early 60's to mid 70's we had the Borden's milktruck who left the milk bottles, cream and cottage cheese and once in a while for a treat chocolate milk,And yes my mum would leave the money in the empty bottles.Also the Pom Baker truck for bread and corn toasties and once in a while an Orange Layer Cake, so good.WE were such friends with him he used to come to our BBQ parties in the summer.this all was Montreal.In Liverpool I remember the ice lolly truck playing that song and the truck that delivered pop.I still remember the taste of the Lime Rickey which I can still find here in Montreal.Still drink it on hot summer days.It's good as is or even with Gin or Tequila

@ParsonWayne We, too, had goats. Averaged 24 at a time. Older sister and had to milk 10 of them each before school and before dinner. In between times we had to clean stalls, the milking "parlor" and in general take care of them. French Alpines and Toggenburgs. The milk was pasteurized and the bulk of what we 7 kids didn't consume was given away to families that had members with intolerance such as you had.

When dating my wife, I let her know that no kid of mine would ever have a damned goat.

Sure do. I was a Twin Pines milkman for a number of years.

We raised goats because I could not digest cow's milk.

We had an insulated milk box on our front stoop.

I only get the ice cream guy in the summer.

I remember milk and bread delivery. We also had a guy come around several times a year to sharpen knives and scissors. He had a bell so that people could tell he was coming.

We were making memories and didn't know it...

RebeccaB, that guy was a sadist! But I do remember the milk being delivered.

In the late 1960's- early 1970's, we had Purity milk delivered to our house. Mr.Rader was the milkman & his teen-age daughters were EXCELLENT baby-sitters for our children.

Wow, folks... once those memory juices are prompted we all have some lively stories! Glad to be alive with the memories I gathered even though it was 8 thousand miles away & in the past century... Old? Ha! The body is doddery yet the mind dances on... Wonder what the kids'll remember?

jerrys
We were country folks and had our own milk sources when young. However, the Bond Bread man and a citrus juice man (mmmmm raspberry-lime was my favorite) came by weekly. The dry cleaner also picked up and delivered. Before moving to the farm, we kids liked staying at Nana's. She had ice delivered, one of us would put the card in the front window. The iceman would chip some off and give us a chunk in a wax paper square.

Did anyone else ever see the Moxie Man? That was the most exotic promotional delivery service (to stores) ever. I only recall seeing that one twice. It appears on the cover of sheet music for "Moxie" a fox-trot song.

.... on little electric riding vans B/4 the Rush Hour & then little House Wrens, the proverbal early birds would peck thru at first cardboard lids & then foil ones to drink up the cream! Also barrow boys singing charming songs would drive their little horses along each street once a week w/exotic (for London England) fruit: bananas, pineapple, strawberries, et al. Our coal was delivered by horsedrawn carts w/coal-covered chaps hauling sacks to the manhole to drop the rocks down to the cellar which had doubled as an air-raid shelter.

I remember in the 40’s in Winnipeg we had bread ,milk, and ice delivered in horse drawn wagons. The bread wagon had a stove in the winter, and the wagon caught fire one day. The wagon ended up in the ditch ,without the horse. All the kids in the neighbourhood got free doughnuts that day.we also had Fuller Brush , Watkins, and a rag and bottle man that used to come down the back lane. The milk often froze in the winter , and it would pop the cardboard top and stick out the top of the bottle.

I found an old ice pick among my Mom's kitchen things, with the name of a store on it. It looked deadly, and was somewhat bent - well used. I sent it back to her hometown history museum. NOW who feels old?? :))

Lefty, my Sunday paper comes before 5am, most of the time.

True on how different people eat times. Or maybe her dad was just trying to scare you off? Good on your wife, she knew who you are.

And don't forget about the ice delivery man. Our iceman
delivered our ice in a one horse-drawn wagon with a tarp
and then a blanket over the ice.
Top that one all you "Old Timers" LOL

I remember the milk man and the Fuller Brush man. We didn't get ice delivered but I do remember the ice man in the neighborhood who kindly would chip off some ice for us kids on a hot summer day. We also got visits from the Watkins man, selling vanilla and spices and other kitchen items. One day my mom told him she didn't need anything that day and he started looking through her cupboards to check. My petite little mom chased him out of the house and down the sidewalk with her broom! He never did come back.

I also remember when a newspaper would be delivered before 6:30 AM. Nowadays I'm lucky to get it before 9.

I remember the milk man from the Golden Guernsey Dairy delivering milk and other dairy products like cottage cheese to our milk box (an outdoor insulated box with a connecting door into the kitchen). The milk was in glass bottles with a paper lid.

I remember when the cream would be at the top of
the bottle and my sister and I fought to lick the cream
off the cardboard lid.

We had the Charlie's Chips and pretzels too - that was back in SE Penna. Those tins were good for storing lots of things!

Loved Charlies Chips

@Ianto
They are much bigger than a shrip Ianto I do not like shrips they are too small.
Different famileys diferrent ways.
I say this as a teen met a girl and went to her house on a Sunday as her parents wanted to see me they had shrips for tea very nice her dad said why are you pelling them the way to eat them is like this and he just ate them shell and all then said I so think you family eat prawns. LOL!!
He was correct I never went there again and never saw that girl again.
And she was a very nice girl odd family.
Never told my wife about my teen years.
Not true she was a teen when I met her with my two mates and we were all a gang together,. LOL!!!

we would get 6 quarts on Monday, 6 more on Friday. I guess Mom's favorite number was 6, because there were 6 kids drinking the milk. we also had Charlie's Chips ... potato chips delivered to your door in metal tins. they delivered pretzels as well 😉

Ianto, prawns are shrimp

Green Spring Dairy

Yes, I do. Smith Brothers came by the house to see if we needed milk. I said if you leave two gallon jugs of milk, we will have it emptied and cleaned by Thursday. They came by on Thursday, and were amazed to see two empty gallons bottles on the porch. This was just after the ranch was turned into a subdivision, so we were used to milking cows and drinking lots of milk.

Winkle man? I know that prawns are a from of shrimp.

@limpduck
Yes I remember the breadman and the winkle man at the weekends we used to bye his prawns for our tea.

I forgot we had the bread man deliver bread to the door plus many other bakery items. I don't recall if once or twice wkly. They were the good old days

Forgot to say my old neighbore Mavis in her late 80 's still has her milk delivered by the milkman. LOl. !!!
All my neighbores are all older than me and I do like to see them and speak to them via the telephone or knock on their door to talk to them and ask how they are getting on. We have a few younger ones now as well as older ones have pass on. But it is not the same they do not talk for some reason, !!!!

And the Fuller Brush salesman. He would give me and my sisters sample lipsticks to distract us so he could sell to Mom

We had cows as well, but the milkman still came as we didn't have a pasteurizer until later. But, do you remember the guy who came with the ice ?

Yes I remember

We had a small insulated box on our stoop that he'd put the bottles in. My bedroom window was right next to the stoop in our small one story ranch house. He was quite loud, rattling the bottles and letting the lid drop on the box, so one morning I was up at dawn and when he arrived, went out and explained "That's my bedroom window right there (about 4 feet away) and you wake me up every time. Could you possibly be a bit more quiet?" I swear, from that day on, he arrived whistling, and SLAMMED the lid down on the cooler, sometimes laughing. I hated that guy!

Oh Dawn our bottles were round I still have a bottle from our own Dairy from many years ago and another from another dairy if you would like to see them again I will post for you. LOL!!!

I remember those days, but, never had the milk man bring milk to the door. I had to go to the barn and get it from the cow, since I grew up on a farm. :)

oh yes, i do remember those days a long , long time ago

Yes.

And the cream floated on the top.

And it was okay to leave the money in the bottles.....

And the seltzer man brought seltzer to the door.

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