Anna
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I thought someone else might notice the bread wagon. Those were just on the out in 1948, especially downtown.
Well, I did - Cakes & Rolls - and the Weston's Chocolate Denver Sandwich on the billboard also looks tasty.
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I thought someone else might notice the bread wagon. Those were just on the out in 1948, especially downtown.
I thought someone else might notice the bread wagon. Those were just on the out in 1948, especially downtown.
Every house I’ve lived in has had one – although we always call it a milk box.(Though milkmen seem to have lingered until the 1960s, when the impact of Beckers et al became too much to bear--but you can see their twilight legacy in many a postwar-bungalow "milk door")
Eaton's and Simpson's horse drawn vans disappeared pretty soon after WW2. They would have had to use motorized vans for larger items and as motor vehicles became more plentiful, more sizes of items could be grouped together. The need for the smaller horse vans receeded.
Every house I?ve lived in has had one ? although we always call it a milk box.
A mainstay in Cedarvale when I was growing up was the "Selzer Man", who delivered cases of glass selzer bottles in wooden cases. Now only dimly remembered from burlesque sketches, the ubiquitous selzer bottle has now, alas, been replaced by Perrier and San Pelligrino.
Here's my "milk box" (house built in 1958), although it's been used as a "junk box" for about 50 years!
Also a "NOW" view of Albert St.