When the doorbell rang 20 years ago

[HRTV]

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[HRTV]

My Mom kept a Sara Lee and Sanka in the house true story :-) then again when I was growing up we had Sealtest Milk delivered by the Milk Man true story again. They would leave our milk on the back porch in a tin box.

[SeaBat]

Lorain Creamery delivered milk in a glass bottle from a horse drawn vehicle. The horse would automatically stop at the proper place and the driver would deliver the milk to the customers house. Later on, East Side Dairy used Divco Trucks that the driver drove in a standing position. The clutch and brake where the same pedal. As you stepped on the pedal the first part was the clutch and then the last part the brake was activated. I remember ice being delivered to some of the houses and you could call the grocery store and they delivered. Ice cream cones where 5 cents for a double dip.

[A/B Speedliner]

The Dairy farm in West Sayville

I would hang out at West Sayville Marine, the local Mercury/Speedliner dealer that also was South Side Dairy owned by John Bentimia. Some times I would help deliver milk in glass bottles and into the galvanized metal containers on the side or back porch. I remember on day coming back from the milk run, hah, it was so hot that I drank a quart of chochlate milk in one long gulp. It was so cool that you could feel the coolness in my stomach through my skin.
We had a lot of fun their, I am sure Bill Huson can remember those days.
David

[Fast Jack]

Remember

How about the Doctor coming to the house, after he would call the drug store. and they would deliver the perscription !! Used to hang out at Whites Marina , Norway Maine. Got the white Merc 9.9 for my first Hydro 1961 !!!

[HRTV]

How about the Doctor coming to the house, after he would call the drug store. and they would deliver the perscription !! Used to hang out at Whites Marina , Norway Maine. Got the white Merc 9.9 for my first Hydro 1961 !!!

Jack,

We use to get Orange Crush Soda from the front style soda pop machine. Open the door and pull out the bottle 10 cents to 25 cents :-) sure was good on a hot summer day :-)

[HRTV]

How about the Doctor coming to the house, after he would call the drug store. and they would deliver the perscription !! Used to hang out at Whites Marina , Norway Maine. Got the white Merc 9.9 for my first Hydro 1961 !!!

Don't you mean 5 & Dime store :-)

[G Stillwill]

I remember the milk man, bread man, ice man and later the jewel T man and the fuller brush man. The doctor comming to the house but dont remember Columbus landing on Plymouth Rock

[bill boyes]

There are houses in Los Angeles that still have the Milk door. My uncle had a Jewel T route. and the Bread man used to stop couple times a week.
Our Milkman had a key to our house because we drank whole milk and he would bring milk into the house and leave it in the Refrig. Heck that was into the late 1960's.

[Bill Huson]

That would be my Uncle John . . .

I would hang out at West Sayville Marine, the local Mercury/Speedliner dealer that also was South Side Dairy owned by John Bentimia. Some times I would help deliver milk in glass bottles and into the galvanized metal containers on the side or back porch. I remember on day coming back from the milk run, hah, it was so hot that I drank a quart of chochlate milk in one long gulp. It was so cool that you could feel the coolness in my stomach through my skin.
We had a lot of fun their, I am sure Bill Huson can remember those days.
David

Remember those days well. Especially how ragged out Uncle John's delivery trucks were - doors slammed so many times as the driver hopped out to drop off milk the latches were totally pooched and the doors wouldn't stay shut

Ah yes, the good ol' daze. I think Coke from the vending machine at West Sayville Marine were a nickle or ten cents, can't recall exactly. And I seem to recall New York didn't charge road tax on marina gas back then so gas at the docks was dirt cheap.

[G Stillwill]

Used to mow lawns in the mornings to buy gas for the outboard which was at that time .20 a gal, Grand Dad worked for Gulf Oil and brought me home 5 gal cans of plain 30 weight oil , Dad gave me all the parts that wasnt leagle or good enough for racing so I had plenty of KG-7's and lightnings to wear out. Spent every afternoon playing in the creek with a hydro. Those were the days.

[david bryan]

lots old farts on this page

[blueskyracer]

our daughter once asked how a rotary dial phone worked and what were 8 track tapes

[A/B Speedliner]

Old Farts

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[Smitty]

Jack,

We use to get Orange Crush Soda from the front style soda pop machine. Open the door and pull out the bottle 10 cents to 25 cents :-) sure was good on a hot summer day :-)

The best old pop machines were the ones that looked like a big home freezer you'd have in your basement (esp. if you did some hunting or fishing every year), but painted red. You'd open up the top in the same way as the home freezer, but inside you'd see the thing was full of rows of slots stamped in a metal plate. The slots held rows of pop bottles by their necks, and the lower 2/3 of the bottles were immersed in ice cubes or ice water. There were all different kinds of pop in the machine, which you identified by the bottle caps. When you spotted the bottle you wanted, it was never where you could pull it right out, so you went through a long process of moving other bottles around in the slots so that you could gradually work your bottle toward the release mechanism. If the cooler had recently been filled, this was quite a long process, requiring a certain amount of foresight and improvisation, which is why the older part of the Boomer generation is so much smarter than you young guys.