In a message dated 9/13/2007 7:15:15 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
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And it  
definitely had tabs on the cardboard seals for loose resealing at home,  
but you threw away the cardboard when it was empty and sent the bottle  
back without it.



My family had milk delivered through my life until I moved out after  
college. Just about all houses in San Diego and many apartments had small milk  doors 
with a 2" dial that one could indicate the order for bottles of milk,  eggs, 
cream and butter. Some milk doors lacked the dial. But in all cases, the  
milkman picked up empty bottles and then replaced them with full bottles. The  top 
of the bottles had a small inset ring where the cardboard pog snapped  into 
place. The cardboard pog had a tab that you pulled back to pop the pog off  for 
pouring the milk. We always put the pog back until the bottle emptied, then  
tossed the pog in the trash, rinsed out the bottle and set them back in the 
milk  door. Contractors stopped buillding  the milk doors after World War II, 
but  some milk companies delivered to the porch as late as the 1970s. Malicious  
newspaper kids often tried to hit the milk bottles for sport. The last milk  
truck in my neighborhood stopped in front of a house about ten years ago, but 
I  think he owned the truck and was just visiting old customers.
 
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.



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