Middle Aged Memories
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We had the milkman and a milk chute too, milk was in glass containers...I remember the veg. man yelling something about watermelons on his loud speaker as he drove by.
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I feel deprived. We only had the ice cream man. I lived in a house in Ft. Worth built 1940s - darn it no milk door. Actually GM lived in one built 1920s and no milk door. Did the kitchen have to be on the front for that?
DM and stepdad were in the antique/estate sale business. Can't tell you how much stuff they picked up off the curb and he repaired. I found just out front a small pet carrier. I cringed when I opened it - catch was very closed well - and nothing in it. Added it to my collection.
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It looked like the cleanout door on the bottom of a chimney. It was on the side of the house where the kitchen was, but it didn't have to be, some people had him leave the bottles on the front porch.
Now a days people go to garage sales and have to buy what used to be thrown away.
Times they are a changing........
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When we moved, about 1958 or so, I remember 3 milk men from different companies coming down our lane, all yelling. I got her! I got her!
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Spookiesmom - that's hilarious. Did whoeever yell the loudest get the delivery? LOL
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I grew up in a house build at the turn of the century - the previous one. We had a milk door around the back of the house up an alley that actually looked like a regular cupboard inside the kitchen. The interior of the cupboard was screen so the Northern California temperatures could keep the milk cool. One of the upstairs bedrooms had a laundry chute that slid right down to the laundry room - where we had a Maytag wringer washer and two built in tubs on the wall - one for rinse & one for bluing. Anyone else remember bluing? There was a "door" in the wall that opened for an ironing board to come down - sort of like a 'murphy bed' - with a separate board for sleeves.
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We had the milk man and a bread man come through the neighborhood. Milk was left on the porch.
They still make bluing, Mrs Stewart's. I still use it on occasion.
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Remember the Avon lady walking the neighborhood carrying this?
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And the Fuller Brush man with all his neat samples? Those brushes never wore out.
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We got Stanley Home Cleaner from a door-to-door salesman. Best grease cutter I ever used.
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I remember bluing!
I don't think I ever saw a Fuller Brush Man.
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Me neither, I think that I would have remembered him!
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We had the fuller brush man, but he never looked lie that!!!
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I agree Meece!
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Remember when your doc made house calls with his little black bag, in a black car? Most likely a Buick?
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Spookiesmom, now that's going really far back! We lived in the snow weather and I remember him coming out, occasionally when really sick.
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And I always got a shot!
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Phyllis Diller
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Remember Charles Chips? Delivered in huge tin cans. Thought they were the best chips EVER growing up.
Grew up and worked many years throughout the Midwest where Coke was known as pop. Got transferred to the Florida panhandle. Walk into a restraurant the first day I was in town and am asked "Would you like a coke?". I reply that I would and their response .. What kind? We have coke, sprite, dr pepper and mountain dew. WTH?? Apparently every carbonated beverage is known as "coke" here, lol.
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Yeah, they look at you funny if you say pop.
What part of Midwest? I'm from Cincy.
Spookie is from Panama City. They about ma'mam'ed me to death when I got her.0 -
I grew up in Columbus, OH and currently live in Tallahassee. Spookie, we''re practically neighbors lol.
Yeah, the constant ma'aming was hard to get used to.
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Go-go boots and white lipstick.
. They SO went with dresses where the hem was shorter than the arms. 0 -
I can remember going to Massachusettes and asking for a pop and getting a blank look. It was called "tonic" then.
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Really I'm by Clearwater now.
How about orange lipstick and matching nail polish?0 -
My Mom actually had a big dinner bell that she rang to call us to dinner. It was outside and about a foot tall. We would come running from the woods or wherever we were.
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I remember seeing those!
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So I think I mentioned the following previously but this was on MSN videos today. I was given one of these (or a knock-off) when I went onto a local kids show for my 5th or 6th birthday. I was not a coordinated kid! http://msnvideo.msn.com/?channelindex=1&from=en-us_msnhp#/video/65a7783d-6aad-4543-b7e2-d99dba47c2fd
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I never saw those before. Look like a broken bone waiting to happen.
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I couldn't get the video to load, so I'll just have to imagine what you got as a child, Eph.
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Spookiesmom - or a concussion. I PTL do not remember these. I do remember the cans you walked on. I have a lovely scar on forehead from them, well not the cans but the coffeetable I fell into. Can't find a 1950s picture but they were very similar to these. Evidently there is a whole bunch of kid craft things from tin cans.
Meece - let's just say it looks like the fastest way for an ER visit. Imagine standing up and peddling a bicycle on a little platform.
Did find this cute reference. http://www.skooldays.com/blog/toys-in-the-50s/
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