2008 Dream Cruise (Part 1)

[Michael K.]

TV Nostalgia

[Michael K.]

2008 Dream Cruise (Part 2)

More cruisers.

[Michael K.]

Dream Cruise (Part 3)

Unique rides.

[Stuart F.]

Re: 2008 Dream Cruise (Part 2)

Michael;

Some nice meat/milk wagons.

Thanks.

Stu Fox

[Alan S.]

Re: 2008 Dream Cruise (Part 2)

Does anyone remember waiting for the milkman on summer mornings and getting a large chip of ice from him to suck on while sitting on the curb?
( about 1950? ) I also remember the milky smell of the truck because he'd let us step in side while he got the ice and if we were really lucky ... ride to the next stop standing next to him.
Regards,
Alan

[Stuart F.]

Re: 2008 Dream Cruise (Part 2)

It's even hard to believe they drove those standing up too. I remember the horse drawn milk and ice wagons too. Guess that dates me.

Stu Fox

[Tom D.]

Re: 2008 Dream Cruise (Part 2)

Some of my photos are at http://gallery.me.com/midvette#100073

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[John H.]

Re: 2008 Dream Cruise (Part 2)

It's even hard to believe they drove those standing up too. I remember the horse drawn milk and ice wagons too. Guess that dates me.

Stu Fox

Stu -

Dates me too - Twin Pines delivered our milk (into the milk chute) when I was a kid (not to mention the coal chute, filling the stoker from the coal bin every winter morning, and shoveling out the "clinkers" from that big black octopus of a coal furnace).

Those Divco trucks were neat - one pedal for clutch and brake (first half of travel was the clutch, and from there down it was the brake), with the throttle a knob on the end of the column shift lever, so the milkman could drive standing up.

[Steven B.]

Re: 2008 Dream Cruise (Part 2)

Stu -

Dates me too - Twin Pines delivered our milk (into the milk chute) when I was a kid (not to mention the coal chute, filling the stoker from the coal bin every winter morning, and shoveling out the "clinkers" from that big black octopus of a coal furnace).

Those Divco trucks were neat - one pedal for clutch and brake (first half of travel was the clutch, and from there down it was the brake), with the throttle a knob on the end of the column shift lever, so the milkman could drive standing up.

'Love those Divco's. I was always the first up in the morning to get the milk off the front porch, pop the cardboard cap and skim the cream! The rest was for the others in the family! We used to go to my grandmother's, who lived on a hill, buy half a block of ice from the ice man (in a 1 HP wagon) for 15 cents, sit on it slide down the hill--a block long--! A couple of kids would stop traffic at the cross road at the bottom, we would accelerate when we hit the grass going to the railroad yards and jump just before the the bedrock and rails. Then there was tipping outhouses and the time I---