That fresh milk and cream was the best. We didn't think about getting sick in any way from the milk or and certainly didn't care whether it was pasteurized or not. We didn't have a milkman but milked our one old cow. Mother milked with both hands at once. That was one thing I couldn't learn to do. I tried with all my might but pinched that poor old cow and she would kick or stick her foot in the milk pail so Daddy gave up on me and assigned me something else to be responsible for. :-) Martha ----- Original Message ----- From: Louise Valine <antique1931@saber.net> To: memory-lane@rootsweb.com Sent: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 21:51:45 -0500 (EST) Subject: [ML] milk When we first moved to town in the early 40's, we had a milkman. For a while before my brother went in the navy he was on the truck delivering milk. I found a bottle at an antique store and bought it just because of the home delivery and that he had worked there. I don't remember if it all stopped during WW2 because of the gas and tire shortage or when. I remember the glass bottles. Cream on the top. After we were married there was a dairy close by we could go to and take a gallon jug and get milk. Now I don't think they can sell it like that because of the pasturizing or something like that. Seems like it was 50 cents. That was the early 50's. When we moved to the country, had the cow, we had more milk than we knew what to do with it. Good think we were all skinny. made alot of puddings, with four kids it was eaten, also made ice cream, lots of gravys with things. Thank god only one cow. Also had chickens. Fresh eggs. It was fun. But now just go to the store and buy a plastic thing with the milk. I am glad the kids had the experience of living like that. They had the horses. Raised the calves, experienced death with the animals. Had there pony's. They had fun. That is what it is all about. Louise http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

These stories about milk men bring back so many memories. My Dad was a milk man most of his life. He worked for a dairy in Kankakee, IL before WW1 and had an accident--don't know all the details, but the wagon tipped over, his leg was broken, the horse did not move, thereby saving his life--and he didn't have to go into the service. He later moved to Chicago, and in time moved to the suburbs and he worked for the same dairy well into the 1950's. He didn't have quite enough time in to get his full pension and they let him work a couple of days a week until he did. Can you imagine a company doing that today? My husband also worked for the same dairy for 25 years, but inside. I have milk bottles from all the small dairies that were in this area. Many of the larger farms with a large dairy herd bottled and sold their milk in the small towns near them. I even found a bottle from the dairy my father worked for in Kankakee. Not in the best of condition but it is over 100 years old. I have made provisions to give all of my collection to a historical society in the area. I suppose my kids will keep a couple from the dairies their dad worked for, but the bulk will find a good home. I take them down about twice a year and run them through the dish washer. What a job, but they really don't look nice with fur on them. The small dairies got bought up by the larger ones, my husband saw the hand writing on the wall, and when a friend asked him if he wanted to go to work as an electrician he took the chance. He had been trained as an electrician in the Navy and worked odd jobs for a man in town, so he knew the trade. Best decision he ever made in his life. He did that for 25 years, taught both of our sons, and they have both retired after 25 years each as electricians. As I read this over I can sure see where all of my 87 years have gone!! Grace in frigid Illinois. On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:27 PM, grandbanna <grandbanna@hughes.net> wrote: > That fresh milk and cream was the best. We didn't think about getting > sick in any way from the milk or and certainly didn't care whether it was > pasteurized or not. We didn't have a milkman but milked our one old cow. > Mother milked with both hands at once. That was one thing I couldn't > learn to do. I tried with all my might but pinched that poor old cow and > she would kick or stick her foot in the milk pail so Daddy gave up on me > and assigned me something else to be responsible for. :-) > > Martha > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Louise Valine <antique1931@saber.net> > To: memory-lane@rootsweb.com > Sent: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 21:51:45 -0500 (EST) > Subject: [ML] milk > > When we first moved to town in the early 40's, we had a milkman. For a > while before my brother went in the navy he was on the truck delivering > milk. > I found a bottle at an antique store and bought it just because of the > home delivery and that he had worked there. I don't remember if it all > stopped during WW2 because of the gas and tire shortage or when. I remember > the glass bottles. Cream on the top. > After we were married there was a dairy close by we could go to and take a > gallon jug and get milk. Now I don't think they can sell it like that > because of the pasturizing or something like that. Seems like it was 50 > cents. That was the early 50's. > When we moved to the country, had the cow, we had more milk than we knew > what to do with it. Good think we were all skinny. made alot of puddings, > with four kids it was eaten, also made ice cream, lots of gravys with > things. Thank god only one cow. Also had chickens. Fresh eggs. It was fun. > But now just go to the store and buy a plastic thing with the milk. > I am glad the kids had the experience of living like that. They had the > horses. Raised the calves, experienced death with the animals. Had there > pony's. > They had fun. That is what it is all about. > Louise > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >