Feedback: Memories of milk bottle delivery
Danny N Gretchen Jones
We lived next door to a dairy and we took our gallon glass jars down and scooped milk with lots of cream from the top of the tank when the paddle hadn’t been turning for a little while. Dad loved cream in his coffee! We still drink raw milk today from a local dairy.
Ginger Burk
Yup. There was a tag you could put in the box for the milk man to fill an order: cream, gallon milk, half gallon, chocolate milk. I’d switch the tag to chocolate every day but the milk man never left any.
Scott D Smith
Early Dawn Dairy!
JoAnn Lorinski Gemmrig
Arden dairy. Cream always on the top. When it froze (before you brought it in) the expansion of the milk and cream would lift the little cardboard caps straight up.
Wanda Snipes Rossi
We had a Darigold box on our front porch. Silver aluminum!
Jay Elsner
Yes, and my dad also delivered it to homes.
Carolyn Stack Griffin
Sure do! When my parents built their house in 1950, they had a milk box built right into the brick next to the back door. The milkman would put it in from the outside and we could take it out from the inside. The glass bottles of milk had cream on top, which my Mom always gave to me to drink.
Soey Sybbyl Lucile
My father, who is 79, does. He used to work on a dairy farm in the Kellogg, Kingston and Pinehurst, Idaho, area where he bottled the milk, fed the cows, and did farm duties, also delivered milk around that area.
Phyllis Harbison
A cow filled our milk needs.
Dick Waitt
Yes, right here in Spokane, but not in glass bottles. Darigold and Carnation both delivered. In an earlier generation we had two or three glass bottles that we filled with milk from our own cows. I remember one bottle with the name “Waikiki Dairy.”
Stacy Richard Thomas
(Response to above) The Waikiki Dairy, was located on the Little Spokane River east of the Rutter Parkway. It’s all gone now. … But the barns of the Glen Tana Dairy still stand along the Rutter Parkway.
I remember an oral history of an old milkman who worked for the Broadview Dairy in Spokane … back when they still used horses. The horses knew the routes and how long each stop should take. If the milkman got delayed talking to a housewife or whatever, the horse would just take off for the next stop! He also said if he had a string of houses on a block, he could hop off with his bottle carrier, and the horse would continue on, and wait for him at the end of the block!
Michael Curry
Yes. My little sisters look a lot like the guy who delivered it.
Wayne Heggemeier
Yep! Early Dawn Dairy at 24th & Evergreen Road in the Valley was our supplier. Almost forgot, it was Golden Guernsey milk, a higher butterfat milk.
Connie Grove
Milk was delivered to our porch and put in an insulated aluminum box with the dairy logo on the front. Early Dawn. We lived in the Central Valley school district. During the summer we would meet the driver at the porch and ask for a scoop of the crushed ice packed around the milk in the back of the truck. We would make Sno-cones with maple syrup and we’re still alive.
Ginger Zibell
In the winter the milk would freeze and the cap would rise. The milk was really cold and my brother and I would argue over who would get the ice milk. It was our job to get the milk in from the front porch. I learned in later years that it was my future husband that delivered the milk. He worked for Salsman’s Dairy in Chewelah.
Kerrie Sing
I was just telling my grandson this story the other day. I remember the milk box, glass jars, milk truck and milkman. I love the memory of simpler times and the taste of creamy cold fresh milk!
Valorie J Marschall
The milkman delivered and they had a promo where they had Spokane Indians baseball cards with the bottles!
Mary Maxfield
Wooden milk box and a milkman that would believe me when I would run out before my family was awake and tell him we needed a quart of chocolate milk. I would share it with my friend Terry.
Beverly Vorpahl
The Erie Dairy milkman would knock on the back door and then let himself in and put the milk in the refrigerator. When I married, we had Erie Dairy (and the same milkman) deliver milk to our house. Wonderful. I found an Erie Dairy glass quart at an antique shop and immediately bought it.
Marcia Swanson Maxwell
I remember collecting enough paper milk bottle lids to ride free all day at Nat Park.