Glass Bottled Milk

[sudsdudeshane]

Boy..do I miss glass bottled milk!! growing up on Long Island, I remember getting quart sized bottles delivered to my front stoop every Thursday morning. A company called Promised Land made glass bottled milk by the quart up until this year. I could always find it in the supermarket, but now they too have switched to plastic! Does anyone still have a milkman? For us New Yorkers on this site, does anyone remember Dairy Barn Milk in the glass half gallon bottle?

 

[cleanteamofny]

Oh man, boy do I ever!
The dairy barn done away with the glass bottles back in the early 90's and it would last in the fridge for 3 weeks,
and the little bit of cream at the top of the bottle always makes me rush back for more!

Dang, I wish plastic milk containers was never available.......

 

[maytagbear]

There is a

"boutique" dairy here in this region that does use returnable glass bottles, but I drop them. A closed, yet dropped, plastic bottle isn't much of a mess.
This dairy pasteurises, but does not homogenise, therefore, top milk! Their chocolate milk must be served in Heaven.

I do miss home delivery of milk and other dairy products. Here in this area, there were two, Kesselring, and Reiter-Harter. We had Reiter-Harter, and an insulated metal box on the front steps....

Kesselring's folded first, in the late 60s, and Reiter-Harter discontinued home delivery in the early 70s. Reiter "lives on" as a unit of Dean.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

My guess is that when families started to have two (or more) cars, delivery wasn't as necessary.

 

[frigilux]

Oh God, the milkman. I'd forgotten about that. We had home-delivered dairy products (Oak Grove company) until I was in high school (about 1975). We also had an 'egg lady' who came once every 2 weeks with farm-fresh eggs.

There was an insulated milk box on our back steps and if no one was home, you'd leave a list for the milkman and he'd put everything in there. I'm amazed nothing went bad---I'm sure the products didn't stay cold very long in there.

Ah, memories.

 

[dixieland]

Purity Dairies - Nashville.

Purity still has home delivery available if you live in Nashville. Purity is the milk I grew up with and to be quite honest I always judge other milk to the "Purity Standar." LOL - I am sure everyone does the same with the milk of their childhood and other things like department stores, grocery stores etc...

Purity™ Dairy

Purity™ Dairy has been providing Nashville families with fresh, delicious dairy for over 100 years.

www.puritydairies.com

 

[appnut]

The neighbors in the Westinghouse house across the street had a milkman probably until the late 1960. I have no idea if the LK Combo house next to us did tho. My mom thought it was kind of an expensive proposition, she preferred bought at the grocery. I do have my suspicion though it may have also been to protect me. I'm sure my parents were horrified at the thought of me dropping one of those glass gallong bottles. A good friend of my parents did drop one of those mentioned gallon bottles. She ended up with 15 or 20 stitches when it was all said and done. I still remember her arm being bandaged.

 

[exploder321]

I have heard many a tale from my mom and grand mom about the milk man and how wonderful milk used to be.. Also when grams lived in York pa when my dad and aunts where little she had some one come by selling bread..

Boy, the things my generation has missed out on

Although, i too would wind up with stiches from a glass milk bottle..

Wound up with 6 in my hand from a beer bottle

 

[Unimatic1140]

There is a dairy here in Minneapolis that still sells milk in glass bottles, I would buy it in a heartbeat, but unfortunately they don't sell skim milk. The only time I use whole milk is for cooking so I don't buy a lot of it. I do buy a lot of skim milk for my post workout protein shakes, made in a vintage Osterizer of course, so I would be so great to be able to get that in a glass bottle.

 

[tolivac]

Yes-I remember the Milkman and the glass milk bottles as a kid-and even the insulated "cooler" container the milkman put the delivored bottles in to keep them cool.And of course you set the empty milk jars for him to pick up-now that was recycling!I can't remember the brand-and the name was on the cooler container that was at your front door.The milk company provided it.

 

[58limited]

I was able to buy bottled milk from Promised Land Dairy in Dallas and College Station (probably many other towns carried this too). When they first started selling bottled milk in the 1990s, they actually had the original style cardboard/foil caps but have since switched to plastic. I still see it in stores sometimes (not in my town), costs a little more than the plastic container milk.

 

[pushtorelease]

Avalon Dairies here, just celebrated their 100th anniversary. Still glass bottles and sell everything from whipping cream and standard milk to skim organic. The chocolate milk is incredibly addictive... They do home delivery too (bonus of cute uniformed milkmen!)but I think in my neighbourhood it would be stolen long before I could bring it in...

 

[chestermikeuk]

The Milkman Cometh!!!!

Even in the snow....this was last year, milk on the doorstep, no snow as yet...

 

[jetaction]

www.oberweisdairy.com is the link for the glass bottled milk I buy. I just found this about a month ago. You bring the empties back to the store (Rainbow Foods) for an .85 cent credit. The company has several products and has an interesting history. They will deliver also if in a radius of their area!

 

[polkanut]

Eugene, my relatives in Arlington, MN also had Oak Grove dairy products delivered. Is the dairy still in operation? If memory serves me right, weren't they located in Norwood/Young America? Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[frigilux]

I believe the Oak Grove plant in Norwood/Young America was closed a couple years ago. It was purchased by Kemps around the turn of the century, who closed it a few years later.

 

[petek]

There were two companies growing up here in the 50's and early 60's, Purity and Silverwoods, we had Silverwoods and up until about 62 they still used horse drawn milk carts. We had the same milkman Bill for donkeys ages as mom would say. Bill wouldn't even have to drive the milk cart, the horse knew the route stopping and starting at the houses and we would go out and feed it carrots or apples. Purity always had trucks as far as I remember. Then we moved across town and not long after that Bill was back on our route but using a truck. The other neat thing about him was that he and his wife lived in an old lighthouse up the lake. I never was in it but whenever dad would drive us up that way we'd know that that was where Bill lived.

 

[Unimatic1140]

www.oberweisdairy.com is the link for the glass bottled milk

They sell the milk in the dairy section at Rainbow too Don, but I have never bought it. I should try it sometime for cooking. I wish they sold skim!

 

[sudsdudeshane]

Unimatic 1140~

I went to Whole Foods Market this morning and I was so surprised to see Quart sized organic glass bottled milk..Robert, They had fat free milk as well as whole,1%& 2%
If you have a Whole Foods Market nearby, check them out..

 

[Versatronic]

Oh Lester

My mom sure remembers the Milkman.