alphas Charles Chip cans are now collector items (but they don't cost that much in Central PA as we still have a lot of them around).
Charles Chip cans are now collector items (but they don't cost that much in Central PA as we still have a lot of them around).
Seems like there was a fellow selling Charles Chips who did a route that brought him by my aunt's lakeside cottage. It's been a few years.
An uncle worked at a chip factory that packaged chips for several lines. They all came in the same box, only the printing was different.
Supposedly, one of the quality control items was standing on a sealed bag of chips to see if it would hold. And you wondered why it's so hard to open them...
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alphasCharles Chip cans are now collector items (but they don't cost that much in Central PA as we still have a lot of them around).
Charles Chips also sold pretzels in cans - Loved them!
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Then there were "loose" UTZ chips you could buy at market when I was a kid. People look at me funny when I talk about them - But they'd be laid out under heat lamps at a market stall, and you'd buy them by the pound and they'd put them in wax-lined type bags.
Lot of homes in my town still use their metal boxes for milk as porch decorations. We used to have several small and larger dairies around until a Botulism outbreak put a bunch of them out of business (or so I was told - it was a little before my time).
Kind of funny how we're going back towards that business model.
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Here in Canada older apartment buildings have a built-in milk box in the wall at every apartment. A door in the hallway and a door in the room. These are all permanently fastened shut but a lot of buildings still have them.
Speakng of home delivery, we used to get huge cans of potato chips delivered by Charles Chips. My parents only did it for a short time but we kids sure loved them. I saw one of the cans in a used furniture store not long ago and told the owner of the store about that and she didn't believe me at first.
I remember that insulated box! It was free from one company (Borden, I think), but we had milk delivered every day. Mon/Wed/Fri by one compamy and Tue/Thu/Sat by another and both used the same box. I don't remember which company delivered which days, but they were Borden and Polk.
Somewhere I may have the little ladle that just fit the top of the milk bottle to skim off the cream... even the bottle had a bulbous neck designed for the cream to collect in, so the ladle could get it.
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I remember the distinctive milk trucks our dairy used to use--they'd put it in an insulated box outside our door. I think our standing order was a quart bottle of homogenized (orange cap), and a quart of separated milk, which Mom would sometimes mix up, otherwise skim off the cream when cream was needed for coffee, etc.
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My wife did not like the taste of whole milk, and was unhappy if someone else got to the morning milk and shook it up before she was able to get to her breakfast.
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Deggesty Quite a truck! When we had milk delivered, it came by car; two daughters of the dairy farmer brought it.
Quite a truck!
When we had milk delivered, it came by car; two daughters of the dairy farmer brought it.
My cousins used to cross the road to their grandfather's farm for a couple of quarts of fresh milk each morning. The cream was often skimmed for making butter. If not, you beat it in with a fork before you poured it on your cereal.
Had me rollin' on the floor 54', ow, my stomach hurts!
Get segment on the Divco Zug!
Thanks to both of you!
Yep, that's the exact one. Very cool!
54light15Old Divco milk trucks are very collectible and there was a dairy in my town that delivered using Divcos where they drove it standing up. I read an article about a milk truck of the 1930s (maybe a Divco) where the driver stood outside of it on a running board and steered it with a tiller. Be great to see one of those.
https://youtu.be/amrmuJ1PlDE?t=495
If it loads right, it shoudl start you about the 8:15 mark. Just happened to watch this a few days ago.
I've never heard of Arabbers not being from Baltimore, but that does look like something that should be kept on.
Old Divco milk trucks are very collectible and there was a dairy in my town that delivered using Divcos where they drove it standing up. I read an article about a milk truck of the 1930s (maybe a Divco) where the driver stood outside of it on a running board and steered it with a tiller. Be great to see one of those.
and here's a Coranvirus song that gets to the point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0G63uzhFP4
zugmannAny of the Arabbers still left in Baltimore?
https://www.mic.com/articles/189295/the-black-baltimore-arabber-tradition-is-on-its-last-leg-for-the-citys-sake-it-should-continue
https://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bs-fe-lewis-arabbers-20190227-story.html
Don't really know if they are still active or not.
Any of the Arabbers still left in Baltimore?
alphas In the very early '50's, my grandmothers milk was still being delivered by a horse pulled van in her area of Philadelphia.
In the very early '50's, my grandmothers milk was still being delivered by a horse pulled van in her area of Philadelphia.
Alas, no horse-drawn milk wagons, but who can forget those Divco milk trucks? As I recall they had a distinctive whine, too.
Miningman In Hamilton, Ont. , a big industrial city, milk was delivered by horse drawn milk vans.
Here's a VERY funny YouTube video my sister passed on to me:
"Uncle Vinny Learns About Coronavirus"
Had me rolling on the floor!
Just a warning, if you don't like a little gentle ethnic humor, and I'm of the ethnic persuasion in the video, and a little rough language, DON'T click the link.
But if such things don't bother you, have as much fun as I did!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VG5Facpb_g
A guy reads an ad in the paper saying, one year old Porsche for sale, $50.00 or best offer. He goes to see the car and it's mint! He asks the lady about the price. She said, "My husband ran off with his secretary a week ago, he called me and asked to sell his car and send him the money. so here it is for $50.00. He bought the car and was very happy with it.
I recall a letter to Ann Landers many years ago and the gist of it was just like the joke. Ann wrote a reply in the paper and said- 'The first time I heard that story the car was a Pierce Arrow."
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Yep. Glad she's long gone. So long, beeyotch!
54light15 So my wife wanted to go on vacation, she said she wanted to go someplace she'd never been before. So I says to her, "Try the shower."
So my wife wanted to go on vacation, she said she wanted to go someplace she'd never been before. So I says to her, "Try the shower."
Whoa. Are you sure you didn't mean to say ex-wife?!?
Reminds me of a cartoon I saw many years ago. A farmer is painting targets on the sides of his cows. He explains to a passerby, "Them hunters can't hit anything they aim at."
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So Farmer Joe was out in the field with a bucket of white paint and a brush and painting "COW" on the sides of his herd.
"Whatcha doin' that for Joe?" a passing neighbor asked.
"Well ya know huntin' season's comin' up."
"Oh yeah, good idea. But why'd you paint "COW" on that one, that ain't a cow, it's a bull!"
"No point in confusin' them city-slickers!"
A man's spouse did not like the vegetable with her dinner in the diner. He implored a stranger, "Take my wife's...peas."
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I was walking down the street and a man said to me that he hadn't had a bite for three days. I said, "So?'
I was walking down the street and a man asked me, "How do I get to Carnegie Hall?" I said, "I dunno."
A horse walks into a bar. The bartender says, "why the long face?" The horse says, "Becasue I'm a horse you idiot!"
"I just flew in from Vegas and boy was that airplane comfortable!"
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