The Good Old Days--Remember When

I remember when the milk man would deliver milk to our door in glass bottles. he would go down the alley and stop at each house to see if you needed milk. We had a medium sizes metal box beside our door that sat on the ground. It was insulated. He would reach in and take out what bottles we had in it and replace it with the same size bottles.


We kids in the neighborhood used to beg him for chucks of ice off the truck. This was the way the milk was kept cool in those days. It was a real treat to get a chunk of ice to suck on on really hot days. Of course he really didn't have to do this and wasn't really suppose to. But he just did it to be nice to us kids.

The milk bottles had cardboard caps in them. The cream would raise to the top of the bottle and stick to this cardboard cap. I remember my sister and I would always get to it before my mother and lick off the cream and stick the cap back on. My mother never knew we did this as there was still plenty of cream left in the bottle.

The Good Old Days--Remember When

Hey ! Remember when you would be traveling along and all of a sudden you saw this cute road signs about Burma Shave? They always had some kind of cute saying on them and they were spaced several feet a part. Those days of the Burma Shave signs are gone for ever.

In the olden days if you choose to go west there were signs everywhere advertising "genuine Indian souvenirs." At that time when I was small I truly believed they were true Indian souvenirs made by the Indians themselves. Was I ever shocked when I found out my Indian moccasins were made in China. I cried for days because I felt so cheated.

Does anyone remember the old Plymouth cars that had the A/C cooler mounted on the outside of the window on the passengers side. This was way before modern A/C.On hot days you would put crushed ice in it. The part that went through the window at the top was where the cool air came from to cool your car down at least 20 degrees. These were sold by Montgomery Ward. Ahhh those good old days. But I wouldn't change that old A/C for our modern car A/C.