Some things have come forward in FaceBook that brought back some memories. I thought I'd mention mine and see who else had memories of delivery men who used to come to town.
I remember the huckster who used to bring fruit and vegetables. Don't know his name, but I do remember it being an old blue van with awnings I believe out of the sides. The next would be probably Fairview Dairy deliveries. I don't know if Harold Lutz was the milk man for them or not. Bill? Can you correct me here? Of course many years later Mike Vendetti delivered all our dairy needs.
Bill Letcher who delivered our bread for Sunbeam aka Freihofer's bakery...... Was this relation of the Letcher's in town? A stout man who our one dalmation detested. ;) He also delivered our wonderful purchased birthday cakes, a real treat, from Easton Bakery.
I'm trying to think if there were more. Of course Weiller's store had delivery and Lance worked delivering for them for a while. I don't recall if Leo's or anyone before them had delivery. Can someone help me out here?
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Good grief the original reason I posted this I neglected to even mention. LOL Senility is definately set in. I told you get my info while I'm still half way sane. ;)
ReplyDeleteDonald Harrison came up. He was the ice cream truck driver. He grew up in Bloomsbury and I believe some of the family is still there today. He was a retired Military man. I've heard often kids didn't have the money for ice cream and he gave it to them anyway. Don you are/were a great guy. I'm not sure if he's still alive. He could be. He was a bit younger I think than my own folks. But I'm not sure.
I remember Schailble's Bakery and their Sunbeam products. My life-long love of sticky buns began there and, of course, their wonderful sugar cookes. There was also the Easton Sanitary Laundry. I found out later that their delivery man lived in the East Lawn area of Nazareth, but I can't remember his name. We received one of our cats from him. I came home from school one day and found this little ball of fur lieing in the laundry basket. The man claimed that he had found the kitten roaming around in the laundry and was looking for a home for him. My mother accepted him.
ReplyDeleteI got this note from Craig:
ReplyDeleteWe got milk in bottles from a dairy that remains nameless in my mind. We also got baked goods from Javes Bakery. I didn't know that Weiller's had delivery. This isn't a lot of help, Linda, but it is one more name that you didn't have in your note.
Now Craig brought up an obvious one for me with Javes Bakery. I don't know who that delivery man was, but today I'm sure he would be suspect. He was a great middle aged man I'd say. My folks never bought from Javes Bakery even though my father worked for them when he was young. This man would take a select few of us young girls riding on his route with him. He was a gentleman entirely. I wonder what my folks would have thought had they known we were all over the mountain and surrounding areas with him. Or I suppose it's possible they knew him, but we weren't aware of that. I have no idea what his name was. All I recall was he was a slender man, not terribly tall with dark hair and moustache.
ReplyDeleteCharles Chips lets' not forget them.
And yes Faye Easton Laundry, would do laundry and dry cleaning. Imagine that in today's day and age.
I guess the bottom line was back then most women didn't work, and many didn't drive. My own mom didn't get her license till I was 17. Even then she didn't have her own car.
I received this message from Bill Sanderson in response to my milkman question.
ReplyDelete"My stepdad Harold (Harold Lutz) was the milkman in town . He worked for Fairview Dairy from Phillipsburg. He met my mother that way, when delivering to grandma. (He Married Thelma Niper) He also in the summer and fall would buy fruit of the season and huxter after the milk route, using his green Chevy rack truck.
Will have to check the site. Havent been there lately.
There was the ice man who also delivered Chlorox from his old truck. I remember him chipping a chunk of ice then bringing it in to grandmas kitchen. Putting it in the top of the old ice box. Then once a month he would come around with the bleach and fill up the empty jug. He lived on Bates Street in Phillipsburg next to my Grandma Sanderson.
Also there was the rag man. I can still hear his raspy yet loud voice. "Ra rags " on his cart were , yup a pile of rags. I guess he sold them for recycling of ??. Then there was the tea man. An old panel truck selling kitchen ware, sharpening knives and even tea. That might be the old blue truck with the awnings on the side.
more if the mind kicks in some day. bill
Wow, now Lance, my brother had mentioned to me the ice man. But he is five years older than me. Bill on the other hand I think is only two. Maybe just a year, but apparently enough older that he remembers these trucks better than I did.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to hear again from Marge. She is our Sr. member and would remember more than the rest of us.
The comments in quotes were comments I added to his message to explain who he was talking about.
A comment from my brother Lance:
ReplyDelete"We had an "ice box" when I was young, The iceman used to deliver ice to us. I used to go out to his truck and eat the ice chips. We got an electric refrigerator while you were still young. The "fishman" would come around with a truck full of fish covered with ice. People couldn't go to the store as easily as they do today. Remember that during WWII gas was rationed. We had one car. Nanny (our mother) didn't have a driver's license. She and I would go to Easton by train for shopping. Pop (our father0 would come to Easton to pick us up after work. Just a smidgen of my memories of growing up. :-)"
I'm so glad someone mentioned the Rag Man! I remember he would go around town yelling, "RAGS! RAGS! OLD PAPER BAGS!" and my mother would say that, if I was bad, she was going to give me to the rag man, which sent me running for cover. I was really afraid of him. I have no idea what he looked like because whenever he came around I ran and hid.
ReplyDeleteAbout Easton Laundry: I remember my mother would put a card in the window if she wanted the laundry man to stop and pick up clothes. I think it was a big E (like on an Eye Chart). That intrigued me, too (small things amuse small minds, I guess!)
But my VERY favorite was the ice cream man that sold SNOW CONES! When I heard that bell he rang, I got so excited, running around to get money (I think a dime!) and being afraid I'd be too late and miss him. My favorite was the orange snow cone. Until this day, I have never found one that tasted as good. Rita's Water Ice is pretty good, but not as good as I 'remember' those snow cones to be.
Good memories -- no -- GREAT memories!
I donn't remember anything new about delivery men but I do remember most of them but not all.
ReplyDeleteLike a lot of you my mother never learned to drive and having everything delivered was great. As for going to Easton I remember taking the "Blue Coach" bus to town. I also remember that everyone always dressed up to go to Easton shopping. Not like to today anybody can and does wear anything they want to.
I don't know if this qualifies as a 'Delivery Man' but I remember when the Oscar Mayer Weiner Van would go to Wieller's Market? It was like "Disneyland Comes To Town." I also remember them giving out free samples.
ReplyDeleteGail mentioned shopping in Easton. It might be fun for people to list stores in Easton that they remember. The one that stymied me was "The Surprise Store." I never really got it -- what did that mean? Maybe it meant you would find 'surprise' bargains. I remember the great ice cream at the Easton Sweet Shop. It was either Jane Logan Ice Cream, or Abbotts, or something made by Easton Sanitary Dairy or something like that. I get them confused because the Drug Store in B'bury had great ice cream and I think it was one of the above.
ReplyDeleteDonna, I actually have a picture of Oscar Mayer and me standing in front of the Weinermobile! If I can locate it I'll try to post it on the blog! I remember lots of the delivery men you mentioned, but not the "rag man" for some reason. I remember sometimes in the winter even though the glass milk bottles were placed in a metal container, they would freeze and break if it was terribly cold. I also remember the friendly, rotund bakery delivery man who use to deliver those yummy powdered donuts to my grammy and she'd let me eat them to my hearts content! That's what grammies do, you know! At one time, my dad and brothers delivered "Dainty" potato chips. Does anyone remember that? Wow, there must have been delivery men all over the place. Great memories. Yes, I remember the ice cream truck and running for the money!
ReplyDeletePat that rotund man you are talking about for some reason I remember his name. Bill Letcher. I can't help but wonder if he was related to Jack Letcher?? Our one dalmation hated fat men, and if he had to come in the house we had to lock her in the cellar. She wanted to rip him apart.
ReplyDeleteI cannot remember the rag man or the ice man.
Yeah Gail it seems in the days we grew up in that you dressed up to go everywhere. I remember dressing up in our Sunday best to go to the shore. Those long hot rides, no air, in your best clothes that of course had to be ironed back in those days, we must have looked like waifs when we arrived. :) Ocean City was the place to be seen with your minks and all. I remember the women even wearing their minks to church on Sunday. It was the place to show off the best you had. I know I had a hard time getting used to the idea even of wearing PANTS to church. What was the world coming to? ;) Now we are glad to even see people in church anymore. Speaking of which I was always proud of the co-operation between the Methodist and Presbyterian Churches in town. We had youth groups together and the pastors would switch off vacations and one month one would go on vacation and church would be held at the other church and vice versa. Finally we got the Catholic Church to even start co-operating. Just part of the adhesiveness of our tiny town. :)
Easton: Laubach's, Lerner's, Orr's, and the now gone Bixler's, the Mohican, Best Market, Seigal's. I'm sure I'll think of more later ;)
ReplyDeleteMore Easton stores: Paramount, Mays (Men's Store), My Place Lunch, Fishbough (sp?) Jewelers on the circle. Remember the big candle they would put up at Christmas at the center of the circle! I remember when Laubach's got the first escalator in town. We used to go there just to ride on it. Woolworth's 5 & 10, Kresge's 5 & 10 and their lunch counters. Pat, we're still waiting for you and the Weinermobile picture to show up here!
ReplyDeleteThe candy store on Center Square... I think it was called Wittner's?? My grandfather F.C. and Dad always got a 5 lb. box of mixed chocolates for the houses before Christmas. The candies were delicious! One year grandpa went through his whole 5 lb box before the 25th and had to go get another! We Hoffmans had a very sweet tooth!
ReplyDeleteI remember most of the places that Linda and Donna have mentioned... Bixler's, the 5 & Dime, Laubach's, Orr's, Kresge's, etc. And I remember the Weinermobile being in Bloomsbury once!
Patricia mentioned the insulated milk boxes. I had one here from my aunt's house in Wethersfield, CT that was square, aluminum, with a hinged lid on top. I took that from her house when she sold off the house and no longer lived there. It was well used, but still in good shape.
Just thought of another store on the circle - Jacob Mayer's - Men's Store!
ReplyDeleteFor some reason, this thread popped up in my email today. My Mom is here so I showed it to her. She said the huckster was Clarence Bigley and his brother used to go to the shore and bring back shrimp to also sell. We would have eggs delivered every Sunday morning from Schusters. Javes bakery from Milford used to have poppy seed rolls that she would put in the oven and eat warm. Did anyone mention the Fuller Brush man? Mom said that before Lutz delivered the milk, the man's name was Frankie. She thinks the Sunbeam man's name was Lesher.
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