The Milkman and fresh milk delivered to your door- Life in America 

Today: Kid sues homeowner for leaving bottles on porch causing a delivery hazard.

@@SnoopyDoofie Sounds like could be speaking from experience! As the paperboy. Most people do not act in the manner you described. These stories you hear about are usually just apocryphal!

@@MikeJohnson-ld9rn I have to agree with snoopydoo; today, in democratically-run metropolitan areas, they'd probably just steal the milk (eg., 6 Target stores closing down in San Francisco due to out-of-control crime/theft).

You've been guzzling too much FOX🦊KOOL-AID. Not many Republicans are bad eggs, but you are, to believe all that crap. You're the problem in America‼️ @@hazel555

@@dennisstephens4199 Seeing is believing though 😂 Certainly in San Francisco. You can't make that stuff up, FOX or no Fox.

Was that way when my mom grew up. Said she & her brother would pour the cream on their cereal before my Nan shook the bottles up.

Cream means non-homogenous. I didn’t like it. I was sad to see milk delivery end.

Shake it in ,no I pealed foil cap then drank off top ,I guess that's why I have a cholesterol problem now !

They still make milk like that. I deliver it in glass bottles and pick up the old ones. Some brands have the cream plug. Sure, its 8 bucks a bottle....

We just got married&had little to eat,a Borden man came to the door we got milk eggs,butter,cottage cheese and orange juice,WOW,We had bread so scrambled eggs,toast,butter,and juice,I thanked bordens and the Lord we were hungry,paycheck 2 days away😇.

I love that! Remember our Mailman was like that too. We're had a basketball court in the street & he would shoot baskets from the truck! Even when his wife had twins all the neighborhood gave gifts. Same at Christmas.

The sixties? It was fading fast by then.

Yes Sheila, mailmen used to be friendly too. (Didn’t like when he delivered my draft notice though).

@@stephenpowstinger733 straight to the garbage with those damn notices.

The milk delivery era ended around the mid-sixties.

Hahaha!, I thought that at the scene with the black car and the dad driving away and the milkman was heading towards the house, I’m like” there goes the milkman to pork up yer wife, while you drive off to go to work.🤣

Funny..

Lol

@@toddprater14 same!!

Hi ya brother from a different mother.

Thank the capitalists

66 thousand over the border and a child looks at his father or mother to survive in the USA. America will be a crap hole.

The "Meter Man" used to do the same thing walking into the house to the basement to read the electric meter. No one thought a thing of it. He was just doing a job. Times and days long in the past!

@@organicsoulgumbo Thank the humanist socialists .

@@williamzander4732 get out of here you racist. This is the best time to be alive for people of different colors, sexualities and religious beliefs. A child will survive just fine in today’s America, and they won’t have to worry about being bullied for what they want to do or be.

We had milk and an egg man. So great to remember.

Norwood...might have been same man...haha

Ours were combined.

Fonzie was thinking of being a cop so he could ride a motorcycle as a job

Wow, I not that old from milk delivery at home

that's awesome Mark.. 👍

Mark...that is so cool my friend ..I bet your dad was a popular man in your community

That is really kewl.

so was he married to your mom? sorry! i had to! i couldn't resist.

Wow, just priced vintage milk box & bottles. Pricey.

In the late '50s and early '60s, our milk was delivered by the Sealtest milkman too. The cartons were a pasteboard type paper coated in wax that you could actually scrape off.

That's so cool the Disco truck, as I understand liquid packaging, waxed cardboard/pasteboard containers are the healthiest safest way to consume everything.

That's really cool! The horses would often get to know the route as well as the milkman. While he was delivering to one house, they would walk ahead to the next house and wait for him to get the products for that delivery, and so on.

That's so cool.

Horse drawn milk men were popular in Britain well into the 70s. Too bad sometime in the 90s we all switched to watery milk in plastic gallons!

@Michael Klouser True true.

@@foobarmaximus3506maybe not America but horses for work were still common in parts of Western Europe through the 1980s.

I love that! A little treat 😀

Very nice pics and video, but frustrating that Recollection Road does not allow us to see many entire photos. The up close scrolling allows us to see only a portion of the photos art a time. I noticed this with other videos, as well.

chocolate was a real treat when it was in those glass bottles .

Right on! I was born in 1961 and i remember when we got milk delivered to our "milk chute". I miss those days. Most of those people, including my parents & loved ones are gone now.

@@midnightrider7648 As I cannot see a delivery man putting glass bottles of milk into a downward "chute," perhaps you mean a "dumb waiter," a vintage small elevator, box on pulleys, to hoist small items like food deliveries up a multistory building.

I became a milk man at 17 years of age and was also born in 1961 palm dairies then beatrice to parmalat dairies they gave us are pink slips in 1997 Calgary Alberta @@midnightrider7648

Probably better quality milk also . Most milk in America is from A1 cows such as holsteins and that milk is inferior ... it has less protein , less flavor and contains a . casein which most people are allergic to and causes the dairy allergy . They started using these inferior holsteins when factory farming came about because they give about 28 gallons per milking . Your milk probably tastes better because it might be from A2 cows such as the jerseys , gurnseys or the brown Swiss ... the milk tastes better and has more protein and does not have that awful a.casein ... but only delivers about eight gallons per milking . It's all about profit and greed when they use A1 cows which is not what was normally used for human consumption . Please ask them what kind of cows they're using , I bet it's A2 ... the good stuff . And it's even better when it's cows that are grass-fed and the grass is organic no pesticides .

Oh no! As a kid I dropped one on the slate stoop out front. Yikes

@@samanthab1923 I dropped a bottle also...what a mess, got yelled at ...and the clean up milk and glass😫.

We used to ask the milkman for ice on hot days.

It is surprising how many people forget those insulated boxes we had outside to protect the temperature of the milk. Of course, to the young people the whole milk delivery thing is totally alien.

Jason Daniel Those are pretty pricy now if you can find them. My neighbors had one, they kept duck & goose feed in it. We have a creek that runs thru our properties. Always stayed fresh & dry.

Bonus cool about your story: Buying Local from a private business & paying Cash.

@@monkeywkeys3916 yes!

Funny how these mobile delivery services think they are new. But now you get corporate food delivered by big tech corporations. And both are charging $$$ up the Wazoo. When you could have had it: Delivered Direct from the Farm by the Farmer. Or fresh from the Baker, Butcher ect. Smart Phones sure have made people really smart!!!

G.S., you are so spot on! Our milkman/grocer/mailmen/ALL, were locals with invested interest's in the community! It was a marvelous time. Everybody knew each other, and saw fit to work as a team. It made things predictable, and so much easier! I was out in the boondocks, but in the cities, folks lived upstairs from their business, (small restaurants/bakery's/butcher shops, etc. Many had no use for vehicles~ I used to deliver to them, most were just two story homes on the corners where folks walked to. Another thing, as a kid running rampant, a kid could get thirsty,... we didn't think twice about drinking from someone's water hose, we were never bothered, except for a few ladies to tell us to make sure we shut it off.

@@tymesho I remember much of that in the 70s. Water from the hose. Neighbors whatever. Running rampant as a kid, is a lost art form.

Our family had Borden milk service until 1978 in Houston, TX. Our milkman was Hank G. Fresh whole milk was great!

We.had.hood.milk.trucks.in.mass.no.more.but.funny.how.they.talked.about.Thatcher.inventing.the.milk.bottle.that.big.tall.thick.bottle.my.landlord.upstairs.from.me.gets.that.truck.dropping.of.those.milk.bottles.on.my.porch.still.gave.me.a bottle.once.felt.the.nostalgia.

The truth, Satanic Government made selling and buying real milk, NOT PASTEURIZED, illegal because of it's health benefits. They are all about making sickly controllable populations. "Can't have healthy intelligent people fighting back." ✝️🙏🇺🇸

I remember so vividly the Borden milk service, I had several toys of " Elsie " the Cow. I had a stuffed Elsie the cow.

@@MyName-zd9pe LMFAO... 😂 😂 😂

The Carnation milk and chocolate chip ice cream was so good

Elsie, the Borden Cow is buried in Plainsboro NJ

In kindergarten my sister was Elsie the Cow for Halloween.

Imagine that today. He'd get shot!

@@Kevin-yh9yt I hope I don't but most customers just have me leave the stuff on the back porch. I'll put it away if they request it. One person I will do that for since she's a bit immobile. I'll knock, walk in, put up her stuff and she always tips!

Yep! The milkman and the breadman, who also delivered various packaged caked goods. We had both...

Which is why videos like this are so important and special!

I deliver milk in deposit bottles, we cover urban areas all over the Midwest. It's around you just gotta look. Might not be as personable as it used to be but it's as close as you'll get to getting milk almost direct from the farm in a city.

Walmart delivers groceries. I have not been shopping for a year. I like it.

True... but it's not really about the milk.

Yes. Our Era is gone forever. Sad.

I had Royal Crest services in the mid 90's, a box came with the house so we got the service, excellent cheese and milk and specialty items.

Yes, Royal Crest, just south of East Alameda Avenue, a little east of Washington Street (?) Downing (?), still running 1938 style Divco trucks in the early 1980s.

yea! yes, royal crest is awesome- i live in capitol hill in denver, and had them delivering me milk as recently as last year... had to stop because of porch pirates taking my moo juice! (or maybe some very thirsty kitties?😹) anyways, they have great products that i can get at some of the smaller groceries and specialty stores- great and local dairy! if y'all are still in denver, look for their stuff! or if you are more north of here, the longmont dairy is good too! 💖🥛🐄

see your doctor for meds

Yes i agree in the 1940s I remember my mother getting milk and butter from the milk man I miss those days and the 1950s those were the days but the are gone forever.

You know... nowadays you could have milk delivered everyday by Amazon. Wouldn't be the same though.

People were courteous and more kind back then.

@@maryackley3825 haha trash milk man

same here!

Raw Milk is legal in many states but not all, but many do not allow it to be sold in stores. Some states you can buy it directly from a farm. In some states, herdshares of it are legal. In some states it is only used for pet food. I think the only state that bans the sale outright of it is New Jersey. www.farmtoconsumer.org/raw-milk-nation-interactive-map/

It's been awhile but I remember milk delivery at our house. Eggs also plus other stuff usually available. Anyone else remember the huckster man during the summer. Fresh fruit and vegetables were sold from the back of a truck with the hucksters calling out what they had for the day

That’s awesome

What kind of stories?

I don't think the work ethic is gone lol

Amazing! I lived in downtown San Jose and had milk delivered in the early 70s … maybe it was your uncle! He was awesome… so dependable

We, too, had a milk chute. The outer door of the chute was a small metal door, with the inside door being larger. There was a narrow shelf inside the chute. It was next to the side door of the house, and if, on the rare occasion that no one was home when we kids came home, we would open the outer door of the chute, hoist ourselves up, open the inner door of the chute, and reach over and unlock the door of the house. Real secure house! Lol. My dad eventually closed it all in.

@@ohiohiker4301 Was this "chute" a small elevator, "dumb waiter" that pulleyed the milk (and you) upward? Unlike a trash "chute" where all motion is downward.

We had one as well.

@@JudgeJulieLit No, it was a small horizontal passageway from the outside. There was an outside door and an inside door.

​@@robertromero8692 As my house did not have such a built-in chute, the milkman would deliver glass bottles of milk into a lidded metal box by our front door.

I remember the Biltmore Dairy containers from visiting my aunt and other family in Black Mountain. Also went to see the sweet-natured Jersey cows on the Estate property.

If you go to the hotel near Biltmore estate (Doubletree, IIRC). they have a display about Biltmore Dairies. They have a dairy wagon and statue of a horse along with a figure of. Jersey Cow. They also have a nice collection of antique ice cream and butter molds.

Are there antique shops near you? Are you by your hometown? Maybe they will have the real thing, and you can buy a couple!

Milk was better as you indicated, I recall Carnation as the best home delivered product, pulling out cardboard bottle plug, or the aluminum covered paper cap, brought joy as I drank to little cream that topped the bottle.

I learned on the PBS showThe Farmer and the Foodie that unhomgenized milk requires glass bottles. The cream sticks to the plastic jug and you can't mix it in.

My mom was born in 1939 in a small city. They had the Ice man, rag man, along with milk delivery.

@@samanthab1923 ra

My grandmother's house still had a coal shute! And bin in the basement.

Kevin My husband did too! Big basement. His mom never had a dryer, used to hang the clothes up down there in the winter. I remember when we met his clothes always smelt so nice.

my family still calls it a ice box because of my grandma thats what she called it i am 58 yo

My son is in his 20's & likes collecting the local dairy farm bottles. Just got a metal carrier!

@@samanthab1923 Cool .

Our house had the same thing. Built in 1950.

My great grandfather and grandfather had a dairy farm on Long Island but it burnt down in 35. Born in 60 I remember the milkman coming in Kings Park and we lived in Huntington too. And then when I was 12 ,I ended up on a dairy farm in Amsterdam NY with my mother and stepfather.

@@freedomring4813 My parents moved the family from the city to a brand new house in Levittown when I was a toddler in the very early 1950s. I remember our house, and kid stuff like going shopping, thunderstorms, going to school, getting snowed in after a blizzard. I remember when my father drove our family to California during the summer before I started third grade here.

Janet Burke Lived in a Levitt house too. Parents first, brand new Cape '63 in NJ though.

@@samanthab1923 Please forgive my ramblings, but I have fond memories of our house and life in Levittown. I remember the big brick fireplace, and especially remember the kitchen. It had an under-counter front loading washing machine with a window in the washer door. The counter tops were stainless steel with a stainless steel sink, faucet and sprayer. When I was a little girl, I did not like to have my hair washed in the bathtub and get shampoo in my eyes. My mother had a solution: she had me lay down on my back on the counter. She'd hold up my head over the sink, shampoo my hair, and rinse it with the sink sprayer, and no shampoo would get in my eyes. The house had a large peach tree in the back yard, which obviously had been planted there years before our house was built. My mother made peach jam with the extra peaches. In the front yard, we had a forsythia bush, roses and other flowers that my parents planted. The forsythia was always the first to bloom in the spring. (I've never seen a forsythia bush in Southern California, but then again, there are not a lot of citrus or avocado trees in the Northeastern States.) My husband and I like to take a short, 20 minute drive to a neighboring county, where there are agricultural areas with many citrus groves, avocado groves, and farms growing strawberries, tomatoes, carrots and other fresh produce that is shipped all over our country and even overseas. We like to visit the farm stands and get fresh food picked that morning. That's one of my most favorite things to do. I do know there are also a lot of good farms in the East, especially NJ, NY & PA. If one cannot visit any farm stands, I would recommend shopping at local farmers markets. Have a great week!

Janet Burke Not at all, it's what this channel is for. The radiant heat in the kitchen was always missed after we moved.

That's cool. My neighbor has an old milk box we use to keep duck & geese food in. We have a creek that runs thru our property.

I remember those beverage places. Big bottles of soda, no cans.

@@samanthab1923 , soda tasted better in bottles too.

@@gregggoss2210 in my country we have soda sold in glass bottles, plastic bottles and cans. All three taste different even though its the same recipe

@Gregory Smith , yes.

I worked in a restaurant that had one of those milk machines, it was always ice cold and I loved it.

My parents had their milk delivered from Creamland Dairy . I would sneak out to the porch and drink the cream on top , ( the caps were made of some kind of paper and fluted cardboard material,)and my mom would say “ this milk is so watery”. I never fessed up to being the one who “ skimmed “ the top and caused it to be so “ watery” 😈. 🙏

@@foobarmaximus3506 eww you must be alot of fun at parties, so rude dang

As did my mom, and she loved the pasteurized but not homogenized milk, with the cream on top. Said it tasted like a milk shake.

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Likely not affiliated with the Smith Brothers Cough Drops of yore.

My brother worked for Grimms Dairy in Mount Carroll Illinois as a milkman. The company went out of business and my brother bought the Divco truck that he had driven and Restored it as an antique vehicle.

My daughter lives in Chicago and found milk in glass bottles. She 💘 it

That is good to know. I was born in Normal, Illinois in the 1960's, and although I remember a metal box outside our front door for milk bottles, I don't remember ever seeing a milkman even in those days.

We had milk delivery from Bowman milk in Chicago. They also delivered fresh orange juice and the best grape juice ever!

good news wo hooo long live the old ways

Only remember Carnation Instant breakfast. Delicious malted milk mix.

Ditto, ‘50s and’60s, in Lakewood, next to Long Beach, LA County. Ray the milkman delivered fresh Carnation milk and other dairy products to our backdoor.

I think it was getting hard to find home delivery by mid-60's in Point Loma area of San Diego. Additional issue was 3 boys guzzling 1-2 gallons a day ... so my Dad decided to start buying powdered milk. It was wet and white. That's about it.

@@samanthab1923 I liked those a lot. Thought they tasted great, especially the vanilla. Was attracted to anything with malt and sugar.

@@donalddodson7365 I guzzled too straight from the bottle and, later, the carton.

Wow! I forgot about that. We never got that. Always cans of frozen concentrate with 5 kids!

@@samanthab1923 ........Yes, it must of been tough on your parents with 5 kids. I remember when mayonnaise, ketchup, soda, baby food, tomato juice were all in glass containers. What really is fooling the people today is they are putting less product in the container and just putting a large dimple underneath the container to make less space inside the container but they are charging more for the product BUT the container looks the same. If you can think of other products that used to be in glass containers, please list them. Come to think of it, they don't make 5 pounds of sugar anymore, it's all 4 pounds now.

J Polar You know it really wasn't. Or looking back they made it look easy. Big house, all kinds of bikes, mopeds, dirt bikes, skates, sleds, skis. I think my Dad just went overboard cause he was a city kid. Anyway my brother did tell me when his boys were little he handed one a glass bottle of Coke & he didn't know how to open it. Had never seen a bottle opener before!

@@samanthab1923 ......Have you ever heard of a " Church Key " , i always carried one around with me. Today MAYBE just maybe someone will carry one. Back in the 70s and 80s they were always carried just like a pen and notepad in your pocket which I still carry around with me daily.

J Polar Yes, my brother made a big one in metal shop. We always had the other kind with the pointy end to open cans of Hawaiian Punch or Hi-C. Usually with Beer logos or from a local liquor store. I think I have a Schlitz beer one in my drawer now.

He certainly had decades of good daily exerise.

It’s kinda weird how nowadays they don’t do school trips like that anymore, probably because of factory farming.

We also had those paper or cardboard caps on the smaller milk bottles in school.

In my suburban neighborhood that had a US mail box depositary on the corner, when the mailman came in his truck to unlock and empty the box, we kids would pause in our sport games, run over to the mailman, and the one of us who correctly or most nearly guessed the number of letters in the box he rewarded with a piece of Bazooka pink bubble gum (with a little comic strip inside).

Vitamins A and D, calcium and phosphorus. And tryptophan.

We had the bottles and cartons Meadow gold. You could get cream,butter,sour cream,ice cream and in the summer ice cream sandwiches. In the summer you can also get ice pops. Kind of like frozen Kool-Aid on a stick

​@@berylwhite2983 In some parts of USA, by analogy with "icicle," ice fruit juice flavored pops that were on conjoined twin flat thin wood sticks are "popsicles." And chocolate ice cream on one stick, a "fudgsicle." If the ice cream were orange flavored, an "orangesicle." Too a "creamsicle." I recall the Good Humour Man from his truck sold these.

@@JudgeJulieLit I had forgot about that but that is very true thanks for the great memory

@@berylwhite2983 Yw.

Late 60’s I was playing drop the clothespin into the milk bottle. Chair tipped over and milk bottle in bedded into my knee.

​@@terrierickson439 Wow, you reminded me of that childhood party game. We stood on the floor, but it seems you stood on a chair, for a greater challenge.

What about the Mailman?...Uncle ?

Through 1966 my mother engaged an outside commercial diaper pickup, cleaning and redelivery service.