Does anyone remember milk chutes?🤔

[Kaila]

Growing up we had one that was in the kitchen. The milkman would open it from outside and leave milk in it.

My father didn't seal it off until many years after all of us were grown. When I lost my key I would crawl in from there using a chair to stand on. I was that thin way back then. I was an adult too.

I don't think milk is delivered that way anymore. Maybe somewhere else though it might be.

Anyone else remember them?

No i didn't experience that, but I loved reading your story about it ;

As well as all of the other posts, that the OP brought to light!

How was the money handled, in all of these situations explained in the posts?

Just left in the kitchen or in the chute?

Since they couldn't use any of today's payment methods, that would have worked so well in that system, like pay online.

 

[johndoe]

The milkman left the milk on the porch and picked up the empties which clanckety clanked against each other as he went back to the truck.

 

[StarSong]

We had a milk box on the doorstep.

Same here.

 

[RadishRose]

We had a milk box on the doorstep.

Yep

 

[Ruthanne]

No i didn't experience that, but I loved reading your story about it ;

As well as all of the other posts, that the OP brought to light!

How was the money handled, in all of these situations explained in the posts?

Just left in the kitchen or in the chute?

Since they couldn't use any of today's payment methods, that would have worked so well in that system, like pay online.

Ty . I was trying to remember how the money was given to the milkman yesterday but I didn't know anything about that. My mother or father must've paid him somehow.

 

[jimintoronto]

We didn’t have one but our neighbours ( my best friend) did. They used to get fresh milk delivered every few days.

Patty. Do you remember Pierre Berton the famous Canadian author ? He had 8 kids, seven of whom were adopted. He built a big rambling house near Klineburg, north west of Brampton. AS a 15 year old, I was a helper on a milk delivery truck that served Wood Bridge, and Kleinburg. Berton's house got 15 one gallon plastic jugs of milk every Saturday morning. Those were the ones with the red plastic handle, and the empties got a refund of I think 20 cents each from the dairy. JIM.

 

[StarSong]

Yep

Ours was very similar. Dellwood Dairy.

 

[jimintoronto]

Ty . I was trying to remember how the money was given to the milkman yesterday but I didn't know anything about that. My mother or father must've paid him somehow.

Here in Toronto, the milk delivery man sold strips of milk tickets to the house owner. A ticket for each item you wanted to be delivered. A large sign was placed in the front window of the house if the residents wanted extra tickets sold to them. The transition from horses and wagons to powered vehicles saw the introduction of the Divco electric milk truck with battery power. They also featured a "stand up and drive " system, with no driver seat, and just 2 pedals, brake and accelerator, with a primitive automatic drive transmission.

 

[Ruthanne]

Here in Toronto, the milk delivery man sold strips of milk tickets to the house owner. A ticket for each item you wanted to be delivered. A large sign was placed in the front window of the house if the residents wanted extra tickets sold to them. The transition from horses and wagons to powered vehicles saw the introduction of the Divco electric milk truck with battery power. They also featured a "stand up and drive " system, with no driver seat, and just 2 pedals, brake and accelerator, with a primitive automatic drive transmission.

Wow I didn't know that, very interesting!

 

[Ruthanne]

We didn't have those when I was a kid. We had a milkman though. He would bring the glass bottles of milk in a little metal basket.

That's pretty cool I seem to recall a milk basket but I'm not sure where from

 

[Fritz]

That's pretty cool I seen to recall a milk basket but I'm not sure where from

I recall them looking similar to this but then again I was only like 6 or 7 at the time...

 

[Ruthanne]

I recall them looking similar to this but then again I was only like 6 or 7 at the time...
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I think that basket needs more metal on itseems the milk bottles could fall through but I do know what you mean

 

[JustBonee]

I remember something like this growing up, as I lived on a dairy farm in Ohio.

 

[Fritz]

I think that basket needs more metal on itseems the milk bottles could fall through but I do know what you mean

actually it looks as though it's sectioned off to hold four glass bottles and that's kinda what i remember

 

[Aunt Bea]

I remember something like this growing up, as I lived on a dairy farm in Ohio.

And this!

 

[Happyflowerlady]

There was a milk delivery service in the small town in Idaho where i grew up, but we did not use it, and I don’t remember if any of my friends got milk that way or not either.
Because my folks owned a small neighborhood grocery store, we sold milk in the store. It came in quart containers that were something like wax coated cardboard, and you could get either pasteurized or homogenized. I think that both were pasteurized, but the homogenized milk also had the cream blended in, instead of it going to the top like it does on raw milk.
My mother preferred the homogenized, so that was what we always drank.

I really like raw milk with the fresh cream on top, but it is hard to find, and very few stores sell it because there are not very many raw milk dairies that are certified.
We bought ours from a farmer, and then the law changed and they were no longer allowed to sell the fresh raw milk. Before long, they had put a new sign out, and it said it was cow’s milk for pets, which was fine to sell, as long as they specified that.
I think that all of the customers were happy that they could still buy the fresh milk, no matter what the sign said.

 

[JustBonee]

And this!

Oh Yes! … cats galore .. they waited in the barn every morning.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Patty. Do you remember Pierre Berton the famous Canadian author ? He had 8 kids, seven of whom were adopted. He built a big rambling house near Klineburg, north west of Brampton. AS a 15 year old, I was a helper on a milk delivery truck that served Wood Bridge, and Kleinburg. Berton's house got 15 one gallon plastic jugs of milk every Saturday morning. Those were the ones with the red plastic handle, and the empties got a refund of I think 20 cents each from the dairy. JIM.

Yes I remember Pierre Berton. I didn’t know he had 8 kids, 7 of which were adopted. Isn’t Klineburg the town that has the ‘group of seven’ art gallery?

So you helped deliver milk as well? What haven’t you done? You seem to be a man of ALL trades. Fifteen one gallon jugs of milk once a week is a LOT of milk. They must have ate a lot of cereal. lol

I like the Woodbridge area. It was really classy as far as I remember. Thanks for sharing that with me.

 

[MoBeans]

For some reason I still have the milk box which fit two large size bottles of milk. Probably from the early 60s. It was well insulated which helped with those Buffalo NY winters

 

[StarSong]

Ty . I was trying to remember how the money was given to the milkman yesterday but I didn't know anything about that. My mother or father must've paid him somehow.

My mother left money (cash or a check, I forget which) along with a tip right in the milk box. Mom filled out an order form and put it in the box with the empties. I believe we had a delivery every day or at least every other day.

 

[jimintoronto]

Yes I remember Pierre Berton. I didn’t know he had 8 kids, 7 of which were adopted. Isn’t Klineburg the town that has the ‘group of seven’ art gallery?

So you helped deliver milk as well? What haven’t you done? You seem to be a man of ALL trades. Fifteen one gallon jugs of milk once a week is a LOT of milk. They must have ate a lot of cereal. lol

I like the Woodbridge area. It was really classy as far as I remember. Thanks for sharing that with me.

You made me smile....My very first paying job was when I was 12, setting pins at the local bowling alley in west Toronto. One day it occurred to me that over the course of about 65 years of my working life, I have been many things. The McMichael Art collection is the one you are referring to. All of Pierre Berton's children had first names that began with the letter "P".

When we delivered to the Pierre Berton house, we used to drop the milk at the end of the very long driveway, and his kids would troop down the hill and carry it back to the house, which was on the top of a very tall ridge of land. The truck driver I was helping would toot the horn 3 times to let the Berton's know the milk was being delivered. JIM.

 

[MountainRa]

Our milk chute was straight from the cow into the bucket. As a child, we visited relatives in town who received bottled milk on their doorstep. We thought that was so special.

On a side note, South Carolina still allows the sale of raw milk as long as it is from a licensed and inspected dairy.

 

[Been There]

I grew up on a farm and we had a pasteurizer to get the bacteria out of the milk. As far as the cream, we didn’t have a separator, so Grandma would scoop it off with a ladle and use the cream for baking or if someone had a tummy ache, she might make some buttermilk.

 

[DebraMae]

It's interesting to read these stories. I don't believe we ever had milk delivery in the small town I grew up in. We did have friends with a dairy and they gave me my first raw milk.

 

[Ruthanne]

It's interesting to read these stories. I don't believe we ever had milk delivery in the small town I grew up in. We did have friends with a dairy and they gave me my first raw milk.

I've never had raw milk. Or at least I don't think I have. I don't know what kind of milk the milkman brought tho.