When milk came to your door....
#1
Posted 12 January 2008 - 12:12 AM
I remember that we were given a pad of blank order forms and we would check off particular items that we wanted for our next order. In my hazy memory that's what makes me think it was Foremost Dairies (Pat Boone once did live TV commercials for Foremost Dairies at Channel 5), because of a swirly "F" logo on the top of each order form. I'd like to see one of those order forms now.
Then again, it _could_ have been Meadow Gold. I saw the logo for Meadow Gold some time ago, after not having seen it in many, many years. Or was Meadow Gold just a brand of milk that Foremost carried?
But during elementary school, at lunch I would always buy a couple of half-pints of VanderVoorts chocolate milk! They made pretty good banana popsicles, too.
#2
Posted 12 January 2008 - 11:28 AM
Can you imagine leaving your money and milk on the front porch now? Not only would the milk and money be gone but they might decide to come through your door to see what else they could get
#3
Posted 23 March 2008 - 09:55 AM
#4
Posted 24 March 2008 - 01:40 AM
#5
Posted 26 May 2008 - 10:58 PM
#6
Posted 25 June 2008 - 11:43 PM
I remember a time my mother sent me to the convenience store two blocks away to get milk (Haltom City, at the corner of Haltom Rd. and Stanley Keller Rd.--I think it was called Norman's Grocery). I dropped the damn thing--that wire was cutting into my hand and I lost my grip when I tried to adjust--and left a pool of milk in the gutter. Mom was very calm about it--she got into the car and we went to get more milk. (She was a sweetie.)
I think milk and other dairy products were still being delivered at that time, but Mom and Dad didn't want to pay the premium.
#7
Posted 26 June 2008 - 01:42 AM
Truck? I know where the last horsewagon is in Dallas that delivered for the milk company. The horse knew the route and would stop at a customers' house even if there was no order for the day because the horse knew the route.
Not much left but the steel. If someone wanted to recreated an original horse-drawn milk wagon, I could put them in contact with the owner. I just can't imagine milk left out on a 78° night.
AN
#8
Posted 26 June 2008 - 09:21 AM
Also, Diamond Ice delivered ice and the driver always would chip off a little for the kids on the route.
#9
Posted 26 June 2008 - 10:58 AM
#10
Posted 26 June 2008 - 04:25 PM
#11
Posted 26 June 2008 - 11:08 PM
I remember the EGG MAN! (Any takers?)
#12
Posted 27 June 2008 - 10:05 AM
When Eddie Vanston of the Carillon Group began the restoration of the LaSalle Apartments in Fairmount on College Avenue, they removed a lot of bad sheetrock and such from various renovations of the past inside the historic 1928 structures. A surprised waited in the hallways of each building under the modern sheetrock - the original milk & ice delivery doors were still there. These opened directly into the kitchen - the delivery man slid the milk through the top doors and ice through the bottom doors. The doors were restored along with the rest of the building.
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Kara B.
#13
Posted 28 June 2008 - 02:17 AM
I remember the EGG MAN! (Any takers?)
I'll bite-- googoojagoob
#14
Posted 28 June 2008 - 03:06 AM
I remember the EGG MAN! (Any takers?)
I just remembered another delivery service of the early 60's. Dry cleaners. I liked the friendly dry cleaner delivery guy when I was a little girl. I think it was really callled Nobby Cleaners and I'd answer the door and call them Nutty Cleaners. I believe the patient delivery guy was amused.
#15
Posted 27 July 2008 - 12:02 PM
#16
Posted 31 July 2008 - 09:55 AM
#17
Posted 16 September 2008 - 07:13 PM
I remember that we were given a pad of blank order forms and we would check off particular items that we wanted for our next order. In my hazy memory that's what makes me think it was Foremost Dairies (Pat Boone once did live TV commercials for Foremost Dairies at Channel 5), because of a swirly "F" logo on the top of each order form. I'd like to see one of those order forms now.
Then again, it _could_ have been Meadow Gold. I saw the logo for Meadow Gold some time ago, after not having seen it in many, many years. Or was Meadow Gold just a brand of milk that Foremost carried?
But during elementary school, at lunch I would always buy a couple of half-pints of VanderVoorts chocolate milk! They made pretty good banana popsicles, too.
Yes. I grew up on Calmont in Arlington Heights, and Mr. Scribner of Formost came in a creme truck with red trim to deliver bottled milk and other dairy products. I think we stopped that service sometime before we moved out to Ridglea in 1956.
#18
Posted 16 September 2008 - 07:37 PM
Thanks hankjr, now I don't feel as the only elderly on the forum.
Those were certainly the good old days and it was real milk - not mostly water that froze as soon as you poured it over a bowl of REAL ice cream.
There were no tree huggers that protested about the horse poop contaminating the water run off and if your house was like ours, you seldom locked the doors and had very little illegal activity (other than the gamblers on Jacksboro Highway).
And Now your old rent house would have been right in the middle of the metroplex's biggest gang infested area.
#19
Posted 17 September 2008 - 09:48 PM
That was some years before I was born, but I do remember the milk man at my grandmother's home near Temple. You could buy ice cream and popcicles from him, probably the only reason it stayed in my memory.
#20
Posted 11 October 2008 - 11:54 AM
I remember the leather apron AND the wicked-looking ice tongs they carried the ice with. I also recall that we had a card, about 12 inches square that we would put in the window on ice day. It had '25' '50' '75' and '100' which designated how much ice needed for the day......just turn the card so the desired amount is rightside up and put it in the window. Saved the old guy (ours was old) an extra trip. I felt sorry for him, especially on '75 #' day.(and we lived upstairs) His wagon was horse-drawn as well as our milkman's. This was on 7th Ave, just north of Rosedale street. BTW...did anyone besides our gang collect and trade those round cardboard milk-bottle plugs with the company logos?
#21
Posted 11 October 2008 - 02:35 PM
I remember the EGG MAN! (Any takers?)
We moved to Ridglea Hills in 1952. Boswell's delivered our milk. We also had an egg man. The first dog we had misbehaved and my parents gave him to the egg man. I've no idea what the dog's fate was after that. I hope he had a good life.
#22
Posted 29 March 2011 - 03:45 PM
Foremost came by NS off Jacksboro...1950's through early 60's...remember it well...they would also sell model airplanes, things like that..
TW NS '72
#23
Posted 30 March 2011 - 07:43 AM
#24
Posted 30 March 2011 - 08:48 AM
Manor bread was the company who delivered to us in Richland hills in the fifties and sixties. I can still smell the cakes and cookies he delivered each week.
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