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[Tex Jones, SASS 2263]

Milk in a glass bottle.  What will they think of next?  Return for deposit.

 

 

[Singin' Sue 71615]

I miss the glass milk bottles that we found 'magicly' by the front door on Wed' and Fri's!!!

[Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life]

Ours were left in the little wooden box on the front porch. That was also where we kept a spare house key (in case we forgot ours) and where packages that wouldn't fit in the mail slot were left.

Nobody would dream of messing with your stuff in that box.

Miss those days.

Regards

   

Gateway Kid

[Singin' Sue 71615]

37 minutes ago, Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life said:

Ours were left in the little wooden box on the front porch. That was also where we kept a spare house key (in case we forgot ours) and where packages that wouldn't fit in the mail slot were left.

Nobody would dream of messing with your stuff in that box.

Miss those days.

Regards

   

Gateway Kid

Me too!!!

Heck...we never locked the back door!!!

[Grumpy Old Man]

Got our milk straight from the milk house. And never locked the back door.

[Blackwater 53393]

There was the milk man who also delivered eggs butter and cheese, the bread man, the bakery truck every other week with pies and desserts, and another guy that came every three months that sharpened knives, saws and axes.  In the summer, there was a fruit and vegetable seller.

 

At my grandparents’ place in New Jersey, they also had a mobile meat market truck.

 

Don’t forget the Good Humor man with all kinds of frozen stuff like Popsicles and ice cream goodies!!

 

We still had milk delivery here as recently as a decade ago!!

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

We nave eggnog in returnable glass  quart bottles here at Thanksgiving - Christmas time.  Pretty decent eggnog, too.

[watab kid]

9 hours ago, Singin' Sue 71615 said:

I miss the glass milk bottles that we found 'magicly' by the front door on Wed' and Fri's!!!

me too , from the local dairy and relatively fresh 

[Singin' Sue 71615]

9 hours ago, watab kid said:

me too , from the local dairy and relatively fresh 

Dad used to stop at a home on the Navajo Reservation, on his wsy home from Arizona Public Service plant, and get a gallon pickle jar of fesh unprocessed milk...

Waxpaper and foil held on by a rubberband, lidded gold!!!

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

I'm old enough to remember the horse-drawn wagons, delivering milk and bread.

The horse knew the route as well as the driver and would stop at each customer's home.

Then, for gardeners, there was the added advantage of what the horse left on the street.