Remember the MILKMAN???

"Goodnight,baby,goodnight.......the Milkman's on his way"......
-The Lullaby of Broadway.

Does anyone lament the passing of the Milkman & his Milk Cart?.I remember our Milkman.He delivered our three pints of milk & collected the empties four times a week for some thirty years or so.Should we bring the Milkman back???.....

 

Not really, but I do remember that line Benny Hill would always come across in all of his crazy tunes sung to his wife: Why were you messing with the butcher when we owe the milkman so much.

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Lol!!!
'Ernie:The Fastest Milkman In The West'!!!.

 

I lived in Europe starting in 6th grade. We actually had a milkman deliver mik a few times a week.

 

i remember the devco delivery trucks they used to drive. only time there was such a thing where we were was the six months we lived in l.a. in 1950. when i was all of 3 years old. but yah, believe it or not, i remember that. and the milk, and it came in glass bottles with stoppers in the top, would always have about 1/8th to 1/4 of an inch of thicker CREAM on the top!

i don't know how long this lasted in the cities in the u.s. probably not as long as the p.c.c. trolleys, i remember those too, when we'd go down to visit the city on my dad's pass.

but i grew up in little towns along the railroad up in the sierra mountains going over donner pass so i wouldn't know except for that six months we spent in southern california before we came up north and i started kindergarten in truckee.

but things i do remember. grocery stores, they were sort of mom and pop but generaly belonged to franchises like purity or united grocer's association, but anyway for people who didn't have cars, and i'd say somewhere arround or close to half of everybody didn't, they'd deliver. you know, like pizza. only you'd go to the store and pay for it and they'd put it in a box and put your name on it and then at the end of the day or whatever they'd have someone working there who'd drive the truck with the stuff in it out to your place. that and doctors were m.d.'s and made housecalls.

you know, the nearest e.r. was tens, sometimes hundreds of miles away, so if you had a medical emergancy you'd call the doctor and he'd drive out to your place with his big black bag full of pills and stethoscope and awe sticks and that wierd little right angle flashlight gismo he's look into your eyes and ears and up everyplace else with.

then give you a shot of pennicillan and a bottle of codine and tell you haw often to swig how much. and maybe some wierd pill that actualy made you get better. unless you really had to be ambulanced to a real hospital. he's tell you that and even dial the ambulance on your phone for you. the old ma bell black bakalite boatanchor telephones we had in those days. before cell phones or even c.b. radio.

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We had a little through the wall area, with doors on each side of the wall. Thats where our our milk, orange juice, cottagecheese were placed by the milkman.
The only time I saw him was when he came to collect his bill.
After school the Good Humor Man was on the cruise selling ice cream and popcicles. Between the Good Humor man and diner time the Helms Bakery truck
would blow his whistle and the mothers would come out to the buy fresh bread, pastrys, pies or cakes.
I always thought, if heaven had a smell, it would smell just like a Helms Bakery Truck...........Alaskan.....

 

lol my brother is a milkman here in peterborough england he gets up at 1.00am to start his milk round

 

We had milk delivered by Sealtest. You could also get oj
We had a Standard Coffee Man
The drycleaning truck stopped twice a week.
Of corse who could forget Charles Chips?

 

i remember the milkman tha tgiot my mother pregnant....... just kidding. no i dont

 

I certainly remember the milkman.It was great.And the milk came in glass bottles,tasted better.One of many great traditions that dissapeared in the US.Now people are cattle,they go to a big supermarket and buy 4 dollar a gallon milk in cheap containers.

 

ahhhhhhhhhhh the party line! i had forgot all about that!

 

Never had a milkman.

How about the TV repairman?

He'd come to your house with a couple of huge suitcases of tubes and test equipment.

I used to work for one.

I do remember when milk would leave a moustache instead of this vitamin D crap they pass off for milk today.




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Those days still exist, like this one. http://www.morningfreshdairy.com/

 

No milk today, my love has gone away
The bottle stands forlorn, a symbol of the dawn
No milk today, it seems a common sight
But people passing by, don't know the reason why

How could they know just what this message means?
The end of my hopes, the end of all my dreams
How could they know the palace there had been?
Behind the door where my love reigned as queen...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQepFF-Sr0

lol...

...and no, a milkman was always uncommon here, in Germany.

 

our milkman still comes what a saintly man!

 

I well remember the days of the milkman, and I also remember diaper service and delivery.

In some homes the two went hand-in-hand.

 

From about age 10 I was the milkman. Went to the barn 2 times each day, milked 3 cows, strained it, jared some and ran the rest through the cream operator mostly used for butter if mom didn't take it town to sell to a local creamery.

 

I can remember the time when there were pedestrian-controlled electric powered milk floats where the milkman walked his entire round !!!

 

ours had the devco truck. don't know what year that stopped, because we moved to small towns up in the hills where there weren't enough people for there to be such a thing before it did.
only one time for a couple of years when i was little did i live in a city where there were such a thing. (didn't know the name divco then of course, just that it was an odd looking truck, and many years later came across a labeled photo of one