How milk was delivered many years ago here in Welland Ontario

[mr. fix it]

This is at the local shopping centre in Welland on loan from the Welland Museum

I couldn’t help but notice the Mopar ‘s in the background of the photo from when it was still in service

 

[mr. fix it]

Looks like a fast top Newport and a possible Polara right behind

 

[Big_John]

My Dad's '34 Dodge milk truck. He bought it new, black with gold leaf lettering.

 

[Newport 66]

I remember Potters Creamery delivering milk in the glass jugs daily in a '54-'55 Dodge panel van.

 

[livininharrow]

I remember an old timer friend of mine telling me when he worked for purity dairy in Windsor Ontario he would park his horse drawn truck in front of the local pub at the end of his shift about a block away from the dairy and on occasion if he spent too much time at the pub he would come out to find his horse drawn truck had made its way back to the dairy for hay. true story.

 

[LocuMob]

I remember an old timer friend of mine telling me when he worked for purity dairy in Windsor Ontario he would park his horse drawn truck in front of the local pub at the end of his shift about a block away from the dairy and on occasion if he spent too much time at the pub he would come out to find his horse drawn truck had made its way back to the dairy for hay. true story.

That's awesome.

 

[3C's & a D?]

Horse drawn in the late sixties? That seems odd, I wonder how far his furthest delivery was from the dairy. I see the large bottles on the roof, I just wonder if there are bags of milk inside or if this photo is pre-bagged milk?

 

[1Fury1]

Horse drawn in the late sixties? That seems odd, I wonder how far his furthest delivery was from the dairy. I see the large bottles on the roof, I just wonder if there are bags of milk inside or if this photo is pre-bagged milk?

I remember the horse drawn coal wagon in the early sixties. Us kids would follow on our bikes as he delivered coal to houses around town.

 

[Newport 66]

I remember the horse drawn coal wagon in the early sixties. Us kids would follow on our bikes as he delivered coal to houses around town.

And I thought following the mosquito fogger was badass. My hats off to the gang that followed the horses around town.....

 

[Fratzog]

I have fond memories of one of these trucks rolling up our driveway to deliver glass bottled milk when I was a kid in the late 50's and early 60's.

 

[1Fury1]

And I thought following the mosquito fogger was badass. My hats off to the gang that followed the horses around town.....

Kids would follow just about anything that moved. The coal guy wasn’t around much longer. He was old, his team was old, and almost all the houses had switched to oil or natural gas. Funny the things you remember 50+ years ago. My friend and I were watching the coke truck deliver bottles to a store when he came over and gave us each a bottle of seven up. We’d never heard of it before and he told us we were the first ones in town to taste it. A lie of course but we thought we were pretty cool.

 

[Mopars & Missiles]

I have fond memories of one of these trucks rolling up our driveway to deliver glass bottled milk when I was a kid in the late 50's and early 60's.
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My father was also a dairyman and drove a delivery truck (similar to these) door to door everyday 6 days a week for 30+ years. As a young boy I remember getting to go along to work with him once or twice a summer "to help" him. Back then, the milk was in bottles and was cooled with ICE. No refrigerated trucks at that time. We would leave in the morning at about 3 am and wouldn't get back home until about 5:30 or 6 pm. Long days for an 8-9 year old boy, but I thought it was fun. When we got to the dairy the first task was to load his truck for the days deliveries. We would go inside the dairy to get his days order, he would talk to someone and then soon his milk order would start coming down one of the conveyor lines to his truck outside. Lots of steel roller conveyors everywhere going every direction with steel crates full of bottled milk on them everywhere you looked. I've no idea how they could keep the orders straight. And it was COLD in there. Once out on the route, he would let me carry some of the milk to the doorsteps on some homes and bring back the empty bottles left there from the day before. Towards the very end of the delivery route when it was about 2 or 3 in the afternoon and very hot outside, all the neighborhood kids would chase the milk truck down the street trying to get some "ice" to cool down with. I got to throw handfuls of ice out of the truck to them since we were near the end of the route and most all of the milk was already delivered. The kids loved it and I had fun throwing it out to them. When the route was completed he drove back to the dairy and cleaned the truck and put in his milk order for the next day. Then we went into a big room with tables where he would spend an hour or more going over his route paperwork for the day so his "billing" to the customers was accurate. This was very boring to me as I just had to sit there next to him while he worked on his paperwork with dozens of other deliverymen that I didn't know all around the room doing the very same thing. This is when I would always fall asleep for an afternoon nap!

Thanks for starting this post! And for bringing back the memories!

 

[TxDon]

My Dad was a milkman for Urbandale Dairy in Delevan, WI in the mid 30s. I think this is a 35 Dodge but not sure.