Does anyone remember when the milkman use to deliver milk right at your door?

Question

in glass milk bottles?

We were poor, and could not afford it

Hey guys and guyettes, thanks for the memories!

Answer 1

Oh, yes...in fact this old house still HAS the milk chute located beside the side door. It made a convenient avenue of ingress for my young (and slim) self when I was late home. Nowadays, it is nailed shut, and used to store hats and mittens and cat leashes and stuff on the inside.

I DO remember, however, the milkman coming around before 5 a.m. and leaving a couple of day's new milk and butter in the chute. Mum would skim the cream off the top for coffee, before mixing the rest half and half with powdered skim milk and water to make it go far enough for our family of 5 kids.

We also got delivery of eggs and chickens directly from a farmer once a week. And the bread wagon would come around two to three times a week as well.

Our family was never well to do. But my mother worked at home as a dressmaker in order to bring in enough money to help pay our weekly and monthly bills, so there always seemed to be just enough. Of course, we never seemed to have any money for EXTRAS either!

Answer 2

Sure do. In the 40's and 50's I grew up on the North Shore of Massachusetts. We got Hood's milk delivered to our back door in glass bottles, which are now collectibles. to To this day, I cannot drink milk out of waxed cardboard containers. Too gross! That particular dairy was located on a farm that was open to the public called Cherry Hill, in Beverly, Mass. You could watch the cows being milked, and they sold terrific ice cream (my favorite flavor was black raspberry). Only problem was that the smell from the barns was so nauseating, it was hard to want to eat ice cream afterwards. After we had seen the cows a few times, my sisters and I always begged our parents to let us get ice cream first. We used to call the cows "Moo-cows," and had names for each of them. What innocent fun. Or maybe not so innocent; if a sibling did not resemble the rest of the pack, she/he was said to be "from the milkman."

Answer 3

well i do i love the milk man. my wife did not need a car. the milk man had egg and cottage cheese and milk stuff. you could hear the milk man come the clinking of the bottles gave him away. that was the the best. but then the cow were Cows not hormones and there was not c a d and what ever else they put in it today. i don't drink milk any more it just don't taste as good.

we could also get bread as well do you remember the bread truck that would come down the street. breads cakes love apple sauce cake. that was the night we would have something sweet to eat. fig bars home made fig bars cant find any to match them now as big as your hand i was a kid.

Answer 4

Yeah. And all the milk that was up in the neck of the bottle was creamy. Mom used to use that for coffee, and/or over biscuits and berries.
The deposit on one of those milk bottles was 5 cents, where a deposit on a pop bottle was only two cents. Cashing in 2 milk bottles would get one of us into the movies (which cost a dime for kids then.) 2 more, we'd get a box of popcorn.

Answer 5

Oh yeah. My mother would leave the empties with a note stuffed in one of the bottles, saying what she wanted for that day,. We used to get the note and add a bottle of chocolate milk to the list. I'm sure my mother knew, but she never scolded us for it. We also had a man that delivered bread from the Rice's Bakery, They used to give away free comic books.

Answer 6

Not only do I remember the milkman delivering to the door. I remember when the wagon was pulled by a horse. It was Pevely dairy in St. Louis. If I remember right, he also delivered eggs, butter and if special ordered ice cream.

Answer 7

We lived on a farm so didn't have that but remember seeing the old andy griffiths etc that did that on tv-also, leave it to beaver etc. On the farm though, we did have a schwanns truck deliver ice cream to us, also then watkins dealers came around and my mom bought a drink from them that came in a bottle similar to a liquor bottle and you put some in a glass and added water-similar to kool-aid but better. I really enjoyed that but have never seen that again. also, the avon lady used to come around and give my mom and I samples of lipstick etc which we really enjoyed. Hope this triggered some good memories too! Thanks for my trip!

Answer 8

When I was about 5-7 I vagely remember that. I am 55 now.
I worked for a milk company years later. They said that the cost of insurance killed daily door-to-door milk deliveries.

Answer 9

Yes. Sadly Saden to say it is a thing in the past just like music is. This was a great way to purchase milk. Whenever it was bad weather, and could not leave your children. I also remember the diapers were like that also in northern Indiana.

Answer 10

With paper lids.When you were done with the bottle you would rinse it out and return it for another.We were poor to,but rich in love.Everyone was poor back then.Sometimes we would go out to the dairy and get milk for 50cents a gallon.But I am 51 and your way younger than that I know.You've got to be at least 10 points %#@*&^ ! I mean 10 years younger than me.