My parents live in Providence, RI and still have milk delivered in glass bottles. They have a milk box on the front porch. The milkman delivers the milk and picks up the bottles two or three times a week. Their milk is delivered by Christiansen's Dairy in North Providence, RI, the same dairy that delivered their milk when I was a kid.
Liz Crowell
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From: Tom Langhorne
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 11:46 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: milk bottle
I'd like to add to this thread. My mother and brother, both of
whom live in Virginia, still have milk delivered in glass bottles
today. They wash the bottles and put them out on milk night and the milk
truck collects the empties and delivers fresh. These bottles are embossed
with the dairy name and similar wording to what was posted earlier, though
I can't produce an exact quote. Growing up there, even when we lived in a
somewhat rural area, I always remember having milk delivered in the same
manner (of course, even buying it in stores then, you were likely to get
glass bottles rather than cartons, at least in the '50s. I believe we had
to return these to the grocery store, too, but can't be certain. Of course
the 'grocery' store where we got them was a small mom&pop type corner
store, so that may have had some effect on who the milk supplier was).
Tom Langhorne
At 11:16 AM 11/15/02 -0500, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>In a message dated 11/14/2002 6:08:27 PM Mountain Standard Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
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>>FYI. In some areas this service lasted later than the 1940s. In Tazewell
>>County Illinois, we used the wash and return glass milk bottles up into the
>>late 1960s (maybe even 1970 or 71). These did not come from a supermarket
>>but from a chain of small drive up mini-mart type stores that specialized in
>>dairy products.
>>
>>Linda Derry, Director
>>Old Cahawba - AHC
>>719 Tremont St.
>>Selma, AL 36701 - 5446
>>ph. 334/875-2529 / email: [log in to unmask]
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>
>I remember having those in the 1950s into the 1960s in Marin County,
>California and when Ann and I were living in Pocatello, Idaho and Mesa,
>Arizona in the early to mid 1970s, we had use and return glass bottles for
>raw milk that we bought. Even today, here in Ogden we have milk delivered
>to our door in plastic bottles which we also wash and return to our
>milkbox to be picked up for reuse.
>
>Mike
>
>Michael R. Polk
>Sagebrush Consultants, L.L.C.
>Ogden, Utah
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