Divco milk trucks who remembers these?
Oct 19, 2021 11:13:37 #
Took a ride up Door County peninsula yesterday I had to stop and take a couple of pictures
Oct 19, 2021 11:27:56 #
Certainly! And there was an insulated Milk Box on the front porch in case you weren't home. Reusable glass bottles that the Milk Man carried in a wire carrier, they tinkled as he came up the walk. Curiously enough, I also knew the man who designed the milk carton and essentially put them out of business.
Oct 19, 2021 11:51:07 #
First job at age 14 was helping the driver deliver and collect on Saturday mornings. Anything above the first floor was usually my territory.
Oct 19, 2021 12:10:40 #
Oct 19, 2021 14:12:44 #
Oh yeah. Milk bottles in milk crates covered with burlap bags filled with ice chunks. Milk Man would give us ice in the summer. I still remember the burlap flavor of that ice.
Oct 19, 2021 17:44:18 #
TonyBot wrote:
They have a certain … ahhh … beauty to them!
Oct 19, 2021 18:41:54 #
My dad was a milkman for many years. I remember those well. He later got a job at a chemical plant but I never forgot the days he carried those wire baskets and glass milk bottles.
Oct 19, 2021 21:58:04 #
Paul B.
Loc: North Carolina
My uncle drove one of them and brought milk to our house when I was a kid.
Oct 20, 2021 05:18:18 #
water falls wrote:
Took a ride up Door County peninsula yesterday I had to stop and take a couple of pictures
Absolutely. My grandpa used to work on them
Oct 20, 2021 06:04:29 #
Just talking about them the other day. I have a former business associate who became a milkman in Asheville, NC
Oct 20, 2021 07:18:49 #
water falls wrote:
Took a ride up Door County peninsula yesterday I had to stop and take a couple of pictures
I do , have even driven one in my teem years, was really weird, 4 speed on the column and brake and clutch on the same pedal!!!
Our milk was delivered by horse drawn wagon until about 1950 in St.Louis, Mo.
Oct 20, 2021 07:40:16 #
I certainly do! I also remember the horse-drawn milk carriages; they were still in operation in Alexandria, Indiana when I was a boy.
Oct 20, 2021 07:43:32 #
Oct 20, 2021 09:07:37 #
I do. We had a milk box on the front porch. The trucks started to deliver milk after they stopped deliver by an enclosed wagon and horse.
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Oct 20, 2021 09:24:01 #
Drove one early seventies for local dairy, they had hand controls so the delivery driver could stand while driving.
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