Memory lane-senior citizens?

Question

does anybody remember when milk came in glass bottles

Answer 1

Sure.  I also remember  "The Dugan Man" who delivered baked goods,  cloth diaper service,  the tinsmith / knife sharpening truck, Good Humor Ice Cream,  and trucks with amusement rides on them.

How about pink Spalding balls, "Chinese Handcuffs" that trapped your two index fingers, wax lips, candy cigarettes and PF Flyer sneakers?

Answer 2

I remember milk deliveries well.  My granddad ordered 5% and used the cream at the top for his coffee.  I also remembered delivered bread and laundry.

Answer 3

I was too young for that wonderful deed. I watch classic movies and see milkmen deliver milk. I think, how nice it would be if they still did that. It would give me another chance to know that person besides the Postman. ;~) *goes to fridge and gets milk, puts chocolate in it*

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Answer 4

Oh yeah.  Ice milk in winter (which I thought was wonderful, having to chunk up the milk in your cereal bowl).  Cream on top (I still love cream on top--Brown Cow yogurt has the cream on top).  I don't think there was such a thing as "skimmed" milk--if you wanted low cal milk, you bought powdered milk and mixed it up yourself (yuck).  My supermarket sells milk in bottles but I'm now lactose intolerant so don't know if it's good stuff--probably not since all the romance of those milkman delivered bottles is gone.

Answer 5

I remember it straight from the cow!   LOL

Answer 6

yes and every other day the fruit and vegetable truck came down the street.

Penny candy,licorice by the stick, not in an individual wrapper.

Block parties on Labor Day (when you actually knew your neighbors)

September 30 was the unveiling of the new car line up

The transistor radio was portable music (transistor invented 1952)

Blue jeans were work clothes, not a fashion statement.

Before steel belted tires and fiberglass belted tires you had tire cores made of rayon and nylon, you had to bounce down the street till the tires warmed up and became round again

Answer 7

Yup. And if it hadn't been homogenized, it had that rich cream at the top.  If if was delivered on really cold days the cream would freeze and it was the best "popsicle" ever.

Answer 8

Yes I remember although things are getting to be harder to remember unless someone reminds me.

Answer 9

Yes, and it was delivered.  We could leave a note in the basket telling the milkman (it was always a man) what we wanted that day.  I can still hear the clanking sound of the bottles being delivered.  

Answer 10

I was very young but I o remember it very well.  I remember the thick creme that settled on top.  Remember the cardboard cap ( that looked like it had been soaked in paraffin)? It's like I can smell it now.  It sure had a smell of it's on.Remember the milk bottles clinking together?  The milk man sure wasn't quiet so early in the morning.  

Answer 11

We used to buy it from our friends who had a farm; we also bought eggs from them.

Answer 12

Sure and my Grandmother used to use the washed out bottles to fill with water and rinse out my perms..ugh perms of the 50's.

Answer 13

it's not that long ago late 80s early ninties

Answer 14

Yep - sure  do.  With those cute little round  cardboard stoppers on the top.   And when the milk was delivered in 20 below weather, the cream would rise to the top!    Then when the bottles were empty Mother made me wash them all up and put them outside for the next days delivery/pick up!

CJ

Answer 15

Yes.  My neighbor had their milk delivered in bottles when I was a young child.  Our address also contained the line, "MR 17" ... that didn't stand for MISTER... it stood for MOUNTED Route!!!

Have a Senior day.

Answer 16

Yes I do and tin lids...in a metal delivery box on the porch...

Answer 17

The milk is delivered here by the milkman every morning in glass bottles.and many other places in U.K.

Answer 18

Yes, my son was born in 1972 and we had milk in glass bottles even then, They had the paper tops. Two bottles delivered twice a week. When I need butter I would leave a note in one of the empty bottles and he left it for me. It was the neatest thing to be able to have this done.  Poppy

Answer 19

Yes and cream too.

Answer 20

I remember it in glass bottles delivered to the doorstoop, and some of my neighbors had real "ice-boxes" to put it in (we had a beehive refrigerator)

Answer 21

I remember. We had a Milkman. During the Winter we had to get the milk inside as soon as we got up, so the bottles wouldn't bust!

Answer 22

Only to well.  Remember when we had a milk man deliver it to our house.  In cold weather the cream on top of the milk would freeze and push the cardboard cap off the bottle.

Answer 23

Yes, and the cream on the top was used to make butter or whipped cream. We kept it in the old wooden ice box. The ice man would come to the house to deliver a  block of ice with big ice tongs. The milk man would also deliver eggs on the door step.

Answer 24

Our Guernsey cow provided our milk.   my grandmother had her milk delivered to the back steps, also ice blocks.   After I got married we had our milk delivered to the door, also ice cream, butter and cottage cheese.  I don't remember anything being in plastic.  I still get milk in glass bottles at the grocery store but it costs twice as much, but worth it.

Answer 25

Yes and we always got ice to suck on from the truck.

Answer 26

and tasted so much better

Answer 27

Yes, and it had paper tops and you had to shake it because the cream came to the top.

Answer 28

I do and the milk man. I also remember spending the night at a friends as a child and getting up in the wee hours and taking the other neighbors chocolate milk. Even then I was addicted to the stuff.

ll&f     peace, love,& chocolate.