Do you remember milkmen?

Mrs. Robinson said:
I definitely remember the milkman-my grammar school best friend`s dad was ours-but mostly we all loved our "donutman"...errrr,breadman. He would park on the street outside of our junior high school every day and open the back of his truck,roll out the shelves and ohhhhhh,the aroma!!!!
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We were staying in a big RV park in Lancaster, PA. I heard a bell ringing and looked out to see a big horse-drawn wagon pulling into the park, driven by an Amish gentleman. He let down the sides and there were shelves full of pies, bread, pastries, jams, cheeses and other goodies. People came trotting from all directions and literally cleaned him out. He came almost every day. Good business to be in.
 

@Aunt Bea , my aunt and uncle had one of thse milk doors.. I always thought it was neat. We just got ours delivered to the front door. How boring.
Not really a milk man story, but back when I was a kid, my dad and my uncle owned a small restaurant together up at the 1000 Islands. Had a motel and Gas station too. It was a seasonal place, open April through Labor Day. Our moms and us kids all went out for the summers. Anyway, when the milk delivery guy came by, my cousin, Mike, and I would run out. He would give us each a small pint bottle of chocolate milk. He kept them in the back of the truck, near the cooler, so they were nearly frozen.
 

RadishRose said:
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When I was in college, I always had this on when I was up half the night and a.m. studying for exams. Loved this theme song.
911 said:
We had a box on the porch. We could leave a note for how many quarts of milk, chocolate milk and orange juice we wanted.

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I used to get up before everyone else and go out and get the milk out of the box. The bottles had a narrowed neck and the cream was on top which I would always drink. Dad would be livid for he wanted that for his coffee. To say I was their problem child is a gross understatement.šŸ˜
 
I don't remember ever seeing a milkman. But I do remember those heavy bottles & that thick cream at the top.

Why are there so many jokes about the milkman or the mailman being the kid's father?
 
We had the milkman when I lived with my grandparents. His name was Eric and according to my grandmother he had flat feet. What that had to do with anything I don't know. For some strange reason this has made me think of the song title by Benny Hill 'Ernie the fastest milkman in the West. Eric certainly wasn't !

Milk came in bottles and had different foil tops depending on how creamy the milk was - I guess. I remember the red top.
I was milk monitor in school when milk was free for young children. I think it came in bottles and we had straws (1950's - 1960's) It may then have been cartons. Free milk was stopped in about 1971 for over 7s by the government. Thatcher was referred to as the Milk Snatcher.:(
 
My parents likewise had a milkman in the 1950's who delivered heavy glass bottles to an insulated, galvanized metal box situated on the back steps. In the dead of winter, you needed to get the milk out before it froze. By the 1960's, most people in my NYC suburban area were then buying milk in paper cartons at the supermarket. Today, metal milk boxes still in existence are hot items at auctions and antique shops, especially valuable if they bear the name of one-time area dairies... :)
 
of course I remember them. My father was one at one time, and my brother and I were the milk girl and boy... and in fact we still have Milkmen out here in the rural shires, who deliver milk to a few doorsteps.. but they no longer use an electric float
 
jujube said:
We had the "milk box" on the front porch, an insulated metal box. Mom would leave a note to order what she wanted; he would leave the product. Some milkmen also dealt in eggs. The jugs were heavy glass with a paper cap.

I can't remember when my mother started buying milk in the store instead.

Remember back in the 70's when they experimented with selling milk in plastic bags? I bought a plastic pitcher-like thingie that you set the bag down in and somehow pulled the spout on the bag through. I can't remember exactly how it worked because I decided I didn't like getting milk that way. I don't think the concept lasted long.
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I totally remember! Mom used to freeze a few bags for backup, and I remember how the cream would slightly separate from the milk.

Anyhow, the plastic milk jug we had, had an open top, so once the bag of milk was dropped in, we'd snip the front corner of the milk bag using a pair of scissors.
 
Capt Lightning said:
We used have a milkman who delivered bottled milk every morning. This attracted blue tits who would peck through the top to get at the cream . To combat this we would leave empty tin cans that the milkman would place over the bottles.
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we as milk deliverers in the 60's would more often be left a cleaned out empty yoghurt pot by the householder to place over the bottles to prevent the birds pecking them on the doorstep... some people had wooden boxes on the wall where we left the milk safely out of reach of birds..
 
Capt Lightning said:
We used have a milkman who delivered bottled milk every morning. This attracted blue tits who would peck through the top to get at the cream . To combat this we would leave empty tin cans that the milkman would place over the bottles.
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I didnā€™t realize blue tits drank milk; just the top fat portion. Apparently robins in your area do also but didnā€™t adapt as well as the blue tits. Thatā€™s quite interesting.
 
I remember the milkman delivering glass bottles in the wire carrier in Vallejo. CA in the early 70's. We weren't far from a dairy. Too bad that doesn't happen anymore. It would be a great service to get milk, butter, cream, cheese, and ice cream delivered, especially during this social distancing and shut-ins.
 
Poisezyn said:
I remember the milkman delivering glass bottles in the wire carrier
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We used to ride thru the alleys on the back bumper and help ourselves to the chunks of ice which were coated with sawdust. :eek: I guess today the milk cos. would be charged with child abuse if the drivers allowed kids to hitch rides.

Must've been around 1958 when the trucks became refrigerated, thus ending that practice.
 
win231 said:
I don't remember ever seeing a milkman. But I do remember those heavy bottles & that thick cream at the top.

Why are there so many jokes about the milkman or the mailman being the kid's father?
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The Fuller Brush Man is alleged to have received a lot of propositions.
True or false, they would not employ single man.
 
My dad was a milkman with a horse drawn wagon. He would begin his route in the wee hours of the morning. When I was a little girl he took me with him a couple times. I road in the wagon while he ran the milk bottles up to each house. I can still remember the sound of the horse's hooves on the brick road. A sweet memory.
 
jerry old said:
The Fuller Brush Man is alleged to have received a lot of propositions.
True or false, they would not employ single man.
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The milkman & mailman really deliver. And women like The Fuller Brush Man's nice, even strokes.
 


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