Borden-becomes-second-big-us-milk-producer-file-bankruptcy

It was many years ago in north IN, that Borden's delivered milk and other products. Borden's was a mainstay, hate to see it go under.

 

Living in central PA, we usually have Deans or Galikers in the fridge. I prefer Galikers.

Milk prices are also regulated by the state.

 

America's corporate tax ruins more than we can count.Greed...plain and simple.

 

lol....you saw delivery trucks.....??

i saw horse drawn wagons.....lol

seriously though, growing up we too had milk delivered. but as more stores opened up my father would go to the store. it was way cheaper, and just as fast.

for the longest time, i had the old milk delivery box from my youth, but it got damaged, so i threw it out.

 

People in my neighborhood had the boxes but I never saw them used. My grandmother had her groceries delivered and her building had dumbwaiters, but they had been closed for safety reasons for some time.

Imagine having a private elevator just for groceries!

Also, I saw a piece in the news that some hipster kids are trying to bring back milk delivery (small scale) it's a combination of Amazon convenience and retro cool. I wish them luck.

 

This seems to be a baby size delivery truck. Of course it may have just been bigger looking when you're a kid. I guess this would be a collector's item.

 

Those would be Divcos I believe the closest model delivery truck I had in mind to the picture. We owned one that served as a reefer to store seafood until we processed and cooked them.

I too recall the glass milk delivery and we had a variety of sources growing up. Cloverland would be the closest big dairy in Baltimore. Off Exeter Hall ave I think. If i remember right. Maps of pre-1905 Baltimore showed massive dairy farms and associated acreage in the NE section that went on for miles supporting the growing City. But at some point they were bought out and basically paved under by rowhomes and cobblestone streets with trolley tracks of the day. Those are still there paved under about 4 inches of blacktop since 1975.

Further from the city there was ONE farm in the region of what we called Perry Hall or currently near what they call Nottingham I think today. Its extremely urbanized today and the entire farm is paved over and built on. But until around 1984 or so they provided ice cream for cheaper than store bought which sourced from local milk dairy as well. Buying the ice cream at the farm store was cheaper than store bought and way way way better quality. I recall the day they closed. I think land taxes buried them. Im not sure. As cities got bigger they consumed more land and land owners like farms decided enough was quite enough and cashed out. The cows were sent to slaughter.

I ran a old time milk route early in trucking years and I understand they don't run small farms like that anymore today. The company I ran out of had converted long ago to sleeper and long haul tankers. None of the daycab stuff was left. They still haven't done a lick of maintenance on their buildings which has been falling down since those days.

Here in Arkansas I think we get our milk retail at a store sourcing from a dairy off I30 SW of Little Rock weekly. They are consistent but if you wanted other products such as Cream etc you could find them. Which was a improvement over what we enjoyed back home.

 

The "working" farms may be gone, but there seem to be plenty of "gentlemen" farms along I-83 starting around gunpowder falls.

(Gentleman farms: "I know nothing about pigs and cows, but my wife wants a Range Rover, my daughter wants a pony and I want to have a place that looks like a Lands End catalog.")