jvc-cw1969
4 posts
Nov 25, 2009
7:00 AM
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Seems to me there was more than 1 dairy that delivered. My grandfather delivered milk for White Clover Dairy and I think you could get milk from Molers also. There may have been others but I can not remember.
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icsalum
26 posts
Nov 25, 2009
7:08 AM
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We got door-to-door milk delivery through the sixties
from Meadow Gold dairy. Our neighbor in Belmont was
a Milk delivery man for Borden's. The big thrill was
a chocolate milk delivery on Friday. The dairy would
also have periodic 'specials' that you could buy that
day - orange drink etc..
We also had bread delivery from Whites for awhile. The
big thrill there was a special cinnamon raisin bread
offer.
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mem
39 posts
Nov 25, 2009
11:53 AM
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McCloskey's Dairy on North Dixie Dr. and Molen's Dairy on Wagoner Ford Rd. Both delivered door-to-door for many years. Both supplied milk to Northridge Schools, alternating every other year.
Last Edited by on Nov 25, 2009 2:53 PM
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jvc-cw1969
5 posts
Nov 25, 2009
12:52 PM
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Excellent! I do remember Meadow Gold and Whites bread delivery.
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driver62
274 posts
Nov 26, 2009
6:07 AM
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I was getting home milk delivery back in the mid 70's but can't remember the name of the dairy. Home delivery stopped around 1975 or 1976 if I remember correctly.
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JohnC
105 posts
Jan 05, 2010
12:46 PM
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Don't forget Shoemake Dairy in Kettering! My uncle retired from a delivery route working for them.
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Don65
5 posts
Jun 09, 2010
10:31 AM
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Don't forget the Blossom hill Dairy on West 35. My dad delivered milk for them back in the 50's,
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phil pixley
16 posts
Jun 09, 2010
2:48 PM
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Bordens delivered to our house on Eichelberger Ave.Now I am telling my age here the refridgerated trucks were kind of primative so they would carry blocks of ice-just in case.The driver named frank would always chip off a nice hunk for me in the hot summer.
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JeffN
305 posts
Jun 09, 2010
6:57 PM
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I remember milk bottles in our chute in the 60s!!
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old4d
6 posts
Jun 14, 2010
2:13 PM
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I can't remember who delivered our milk when we moved here in 1960, maybe Meadow Gold. I DO remember the Home Juice company delivered those big jugs of juice. We just loved those juices. I believe the company was located on Calumet Lane.
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AllenN71
19 posts
Jun 14, 2010
3:33 PM
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We had milk delivery from Mohler's. There was an insulated box by the front door, but on very cold days and very hot days the milk had to be brought indoors ASAP lest it freeze or curdle.
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Becky73
164 posts
Jun 18, 2010
3:03 PM
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AllenN71 - we had one of those insulated boxes too. I remember the distinctive sound it used to make when being closed by the delivery person. It meant I had to go out and get the milk. My Father delivered milk as his first job when out of the military after WWII. That lasted until he got his job for the post office. I have no clue who he delivered for. No pictures of him in his uniform.
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hunt69
112 posts
Jun 19, 2010
8:52 AM
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I recall as a kid I would get a piece of ice from the milk man. This would have been 63 or so.
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stick
3 posts
Jun 20, 2010
6:16 PM
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In the early 60's Royal Crest Dairy delivered our milk in Kettering, I still have the insulated box.
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DebCB
18 posts
Sep 30, 2010
7:50 PM
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Meadow Gold delivered to our house in Overlook in the late 50s and 60s. Our milk man's name was Mr. Matthews. I remember that he commited suicide and we were shocked and very sad.
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KenC3
9 posts
Dec 12, 2011
12:55 AM
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Don't remember the name of the company but we had a man who brought the big block of ice for the ice box and then the milk man would come and bring us the milk at our house on Dandridge.
I would ride the truck with him as he went to the Shouder's next door and then to Aunt Rosie's house.
We would get off there.
Once we mixed chocolate milk and orange juice and it tasted like butterscotch.
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PaulH
80 posts
Dec 12, 2011
1:47 AM
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Here in Utah, you can still get milk and other things delivered to your front door. You have to subscribe and pay a monthly fee plus what you owe for the food.
I told my son that door to door delivery of milk and juices was common in Dayton as I was growing up. He seemed fascinated when I told him that the milk came in glass bottles with a stiff paper plug and that my Mom got her cream for her coffee by pouring off the cream on top of the milk. At one point, we were getting 2 quarts of milk every other day (I was drinking 1 qt. by myself-age 12 or so) and once a week, we had a bottle of chocolate milk and a bottle of orange juiice added to the delivery. I can't rremember when that service stopped. Might have been when I went into the mitary and Mom was by herself. I do remember that when I came home on leave, she was going to the store to get her milk and a can of condensed milk for her coffee.
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cilla46
75 posts
Dec 12, 2011
8:53 AM
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Our milk was delivered by "Cid" the milkman from Borden's Dairy.We always got Gail Borden milk in a purple carton.
I believe Gail Borden was the inventor of condensed milk and also fruit juices.I could be mistaken as that knowledge comes from conversations I overheard as a child.
My grandparents had delivery from Neals Dairy.I loved pulling the cap from one of those bottles and scooping the cream from the top!My grandmother wasn't as happy about that as I.It seemed that I was supposed to shake the cream into the milk before pouring myself a glass.
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driver62
396 posts
Dec 13, 2011
6:31 AM
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I grew up in Eaton and we had milk delivery from the Meadow Gold dairy which was less than a block down the street. It was always a treat when our Mother ordered a chocolate milk or the dairy orange drink.
The old dairy building is still there but it's been empty for many, many years.
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plr2
15 posts
Dec 13, 2011
7:20 AM
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We had Royal Crest dairy milk delivery featured by Hopalong Cassidy. Omar bread delivery, an independent "egg man" that brought farm fresh eggs from Hillsboro once a week, and once in a while Charles Chips and Pretzels. At one time, with 4 boys in the house, mom used to get the 10 quart box of milk that had a small hose out the front to dispense the milk. In the summer we had several guys who sold produce out of an old truck, the last one did so out of the trunk of his everyday Cadillac.
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Mike C
64 posts
Dec 17, 2011
9:37 PM
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I do remember Royal Crest Dairy- Hopalong Cassidy. We used a couple of different milk companies when we moved but I remember the last one we had was Meadow Gold dairy. we went to Moler's Dairy for ice cream there on Smithville road. Now it is a box shipping business, UPS/FED EX type store.
Charles Chips was too expensive for us to afford but a couple of my friends had them. So I'd eat them over at their house, often.
Omar Bread company was great. We used them as well.
There was some sort of other company that would stop with a big delivery truck that would sell sundries and the such. I can't remember what it was but my grandmother would order things from them. Was it Jewel Tea Company? Maybe it was some sort of other name.
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jfox68
41 posts
Dec 19, 2011
4:30 AM
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Mike C, I remember the Jewel Tea guy. In fact my wife collects dishes that they used to sell. There is a pattern called Autum Leaf that she collects. I remember my mom having the same dishes.
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Suellen813Hd
3 posts
May 14, 2012
1:49 PM
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I remember the milk bottle deliveries and White's bakery. Chocolate sprinkles. But hated jelly donuts.
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luv my dayton
7 posts
May 25, 2012
7:55 AM
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Don't remember the name but do know that milk was delivered to our home in Kettering and placed in a metal box. When milk was no longer delivered the box remained and was used for placement of the daily newspaper. When my mother passed away in 2006 and we sold the house that same box was still on her porch and in good shape.
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CalGirl
13 posts
May 25, 2012
11:26 AM
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Back then the majority of married women were housewives and home all day, and very few had a car of their own to get out and go shopping. The delivery of milk, juice and baked goods, not to mention the occasional visit by the Fuller Brush man and the Avon lady, were part necessity and part welcome breaks in the day. The vegetable trucks and the guy who used to wear a tray around his neck with quarts of strawberries, calling "Strawwwwberrries" were little occasions for excitement by the wives and moms of that day. Does anybody else remember when a man would come around selling brooms made by the blind? My mom always said they were the best brooms you could find, better than the ones in a store.
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