I remember as a kid seeing the milk man come in his truck to deliver milk in glass bottles to our front porch in the mornings. Hubby still has memories of a horse driven ice wagon coming to his street to make regular deliveries of ice to an elderly neighbour. Back then we were so dependent on these deliveries to our neighbourhoods. When our kids were growing up about the only regular truck I saw on the street was the ice cream guy in the summer. How times have changed.
Topics like this are my favourite! Thank you so much for starting it, Lashann!
I remember milk trucks and diaper service trucks, we got neither to our home, but there were many I remember that did.
One thing I do remember, is riding our bikes down to the dairy on weekends... just blocks away from our house, and the worker in the warehouse would always bring us out a treat, like those ice cream push-ups that came in a tube, and you used your thumbs to push the ice cream out of the heavy cardboard tube as you ate it.
On extra special days, we'd get a fragment of dry ice to play with, and what a ball we had playing with that!
Anyhow, one thing I remember related to the milk truck drivers, they allows waved and tooted their horn for us kids, and every now and then they'd stop and talk with us for a few minutes. It was a more personable day back in the day, people (IMO) cared more for others, respected others more, and there was more of a sense of closeness and care.