1946 Milk Box
Dec 20, 2014 14:55:43 #
EoS_User wrote:
Dennis, your statement as well as your avatar brought this to mind. There was a posting, I don't recall if it was here or not. In it a person made a statement about cruel and mean hunters out killing animals. Said you should just go to the store and buy it where it is made. I couldn't help but wonder where this person had been all their life.
I wonder if you might be talking about a Letter to the Editor clipping on the Internet that said basically the same thing you are referring to. I have met a few people who hated hunting and had no problem at all telling me their opinion. One did say they are happy being able to get meat from a store because they hated the cruelty of hunting. I guess they think stores like Safeway and Von's etc. only sell meat from cattle, pigs or fowl that have died a natural death. One of my friends refused the finest cuts of deer meat when I had some extra but would order venison if we went to a restaurant in Denver. She didn't like the taste of deer and elk but loved venison.
It's good to live in a fantasy world.
Dennis
Dec 20, 2014 15:08:11 #
Yes, I thought this picture and story would bring back a lot of memories. At our house we had a milk box built into the house. Milkman would open door from outside and drop off 4-6 containers. From the inside we had a locked door that we opened to get the milk. This way we never had to go outside. By the way I remember them also delivering chocolate milk and cream for your coffee. I don't remember the cardboard caps people are talking about.
Dec 20, 2014 15:16:19 #
This would be great if you used someone's front porch for a background.
Dec 20, 2014 15:38:24 #
aaciolkowski wrote:
This would be great if you used someone's front porch for a background.
Great idea. I am giving that alot of thought. Need a much older house than mine.
Dec 20, 2014 18:49:56 #
I remember the milk man and also the bread delivery back when I was a kid on Long Island in the 50's. And the farm a block away where Grandma bought fresh fruit and vegetables every morning. None of those things exists much any more - such a shame.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing.
Dec 20, 2014 19:21:40 #
Dennis I had the good fortune to marry a good old fashioned lady. WE grow or raise most all of our food. We buy coffee and sometimes bread if she didn't have a chance to bake. Things sure taste better than what you buy at the store.
dennis2146 wrote:
I really like the photo as is. As I was born in 1... (show quote)
Dec 20, 2014 19:24:12 #
Jim-Pops wrote:
My Father-in-law used this box to deliver milk door to door in the 40's-50's. Box held 6 quarts of milk. I shot this over 50 times today trying to get the feel for its age. Kept moving my lights. Had lights over, under and side to side. The box was dark and had a flat look. Had the box centered but move it over because of the rule of 3rds. Not sure if that was necessary.
That is a great old box. You did a great job in bringing out the lettering on it. Nice pic.
Dec 20, 2014 23:15:29 #
I remember the milk bottles on the front porch. Our milk always had the cream on the top. My much older sister lived one house away and she always got the homogenized milk and I liked it better than what we got. I asked Mama to get that kind and she said that it cost more. Well then I tried to get her to get me some chocolate milk from the milk man like my sister did. You guessed it that cost more, too and I should just use the chocolate powder. Then there was the time my 2 nephews got into a pushing match on the front porch and broke all of mama's milk bottles. I got out of there before I got blamed. Then I got married, had a baby and bought a house that wasn't close to a store so I had a milkman. By that time all I could get was homogenized milk. Didn't get chocolate milk, it cost more. We only had one car and hubby used it to get to work.
Dec 21, 2014 11:42:30 #
Jim-Pops, Thanks for the memories. Born in 1936 in central Michigan, I remember milk delivery by a horse drawn enclosed wagon with open doorways on either side and cooled with block ice. The milk man would give us chunks of ice in the summer because we were his last stop. I would go out and pull grass from the fallow field next to our property and feed the horse while the milk man delivered. The horses knew the route as well as the milkman. Our street was still a gravel road at that time. After WW2 things started to modernize at a good pace. Thanks again, it has been a long time since I have recalled those carefree days. Dave
Dec 21, 2014 14:15:35 #
Dec 21, 2014 16:10:22 #
Beautiful picture. That box sure saw plenty of deliveries. I can remember Sawyers horse drawn cart coming every morning and delivering bottles with paper caps to a galvanized box on our porch in the 1930's
Jim-Pops wrote:
My Father-in-law used this box to deliver milk door to door in the 40's-50's. Box held 6 quarts of milk. I shot this over 50 times today trying to get the feel for its age. Kept moving my lights. Had lights over, under and side to side. The box was dark and had a flat look. Had the box centered but move it over because of the rule of 3rds. Not sure if that was necessary.
Dec 21, 2014 17:51:30 #
bclaker wrote:
Beautiful picture. That box sure saw plenty of deliveries. I can remember Sawyers horse drawn cart coming every morning and delivering bottles with paper caps to a galvanized box on our porch in the 1930's
I totally forgot about the galvanized box.
;-)
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