Popular Post j hancock Posted March 27, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted March 27, 2017 Used to be seen making deliveries in neighborhoods everywhere. 2 9 Quote JimIt doesn't cost anything to pay attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grayhair Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 FYI, Divco is an acronym for Detroit Industrial Vehicle Company 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
41chevy Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 (edited) Used to have those delivering milk and one from Dugan's Bakery delivering bread when I was young. Nice. Paul Edited March 27, 2017 by 41chevy 1 Quote "OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK" Thomas Edison “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Blais Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Very nice Jim, right up my alley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TS7 Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Divco plant was in Warren, MI. Still there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-42 Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 On Monday, March 27, 2017 at 0:48 PM, 41chevy said: Used to have those delivering milk and one from Dugan's Bakery delivering bread when I was young. Nice. Paul Born in Yonkers. Remember Dugan's bakery and Dellwood dairy both delivered to our house with Divco trucks. Driver could swing seat out of the way and move vehicle from stop to stop with hand controls standing up to save time. That set up would never be allowed today. Very cool vehicles. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 41chevy Posted March 28, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted March 28, 2017 44 minutes ago, B-42 said: Born in Yonkers. Remember Dugan's bakery and Dellwood dairy both delivered to our house with Divco trucks. Driver could swing seat out of the way and move vehicle from stop to stop with hand controls standing up to save time. That set up would never be allowed today. Very cool vehicles. Boy , isn't that the truth! Our Dugans was on Lakefield Road and Jericho Turnpike in Northport. Dellwood had a facility on Jericho Turnpike just east of Rte 110 in Huntington. Still have my moms Dellwood Milk Box that was on the front stoop. 4 Quote "OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK" Thomas Edison “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 Yeah same here I remember them quite well delivering milk and bread in the sixties...bobSent from my XT1096 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 I also recall we living with my grandparents when a baby. And remember those trucks coming to the house with bottled milk. The man had on a white uniform and billed hat. Most of my old neighborhood houses are gone. The airport bought them because of noise abatement. Most of my growing up days was a mile from the airport. Oh yea, the milk company was Jersey Farms.It has been out of business for many years. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freightrain Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 I was just young enough to remember the milk man, the bread man coming on Saturday morning. I still remember the good days when mom would buy some maple rolls and we would heat them up!! Yum. 1 1 Quote Larry 1959 B61 Liv'n Large...................... Charter member of the "MACK PACK" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyT Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 Schneiders Dairy, Near Whitehall pa served the whole south hills of Pittsburgh Pa! Delivered all the dairy products plus bread,orange juice, and the maple rolls! We had one of those galvanized boxes, had about a half inch of insulation inside. My buddy's dad next door drove about a 15 ft reefer old cornbinder,brought it home every night,did his deliveries in the am.Meadow Gold Dairy. There was a big Isalys dairy plant on the north side of Pittsburgh,Where the Klondike bar originated! The milkman wore a white uniform with a billed cap and a little bow tie! Like the old Texaco gas station guys wore! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57 bcr Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 Another era gone by. My dad worked in the packaging industry in the '50's -'70's. I remember him working on machines that would be putting milk into plastic jugs ( as we know it today). He came home and told us that soon we could be buying our milk at a gas station. That was 1967. Those Divco's got parked eventually,as we DID buy our milk at a gas station. Some areas continued on a smaller scale,but nothing like it was. I sure do miss the taste of the milk in those glass 1/2 gallon bottles,though. Even though those nasty plastic bottles did put groceries on the table. Al 1 Quote IF YOU BOUGHT IT, A TRUCK BROUGHT IT..AND WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH IT, A TRUCK WILL HAUL IT AWAY!!! Big John Trimble,WRVA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
66dc75 Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 My dad was the milkman fir a couple of years in the mid sixties. He went back to building houses and from the Divco to an Autocar dump. I used to drive by the Divco dealer (Whittemore Truck Sales Brockton Ma) twice a day going to and from work in the early eighties. They still had a bunch of used ones there for sale and ones being repaired. Went to our son and daughter in law''s house Saturday and noticed they had a milk box by the garage door, home milk delivery alive still. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 I used to get teased when a baby how I got my red hair. I would tell them, I got it from the milk man. It stirred up a many laughs from people. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobert62 Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 On April 6, 2017 at 0:33 PM, Mike said: I used to get teased when a baby how I got my red hair. I would tell them, I got it from the milk man. It stirred up a many laughs from people. My grandfather was a milk man for his grandfathers dairy and he has a red beard when he grows one.... But that dosent explain my red hair. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddog13407 Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 Dellwood use to have a shop off the NYS thruway exit 30 Herkimer. they had the worst shape B models that ever exhisted. they use to never shut them off. driver would jump out and fuel up and another jump in and head back to NYC. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulldogboy Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 A DIVCO sitting in Westford, MA. bulldogboy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxbxc Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 (edited) used to have two dairies in walking distance of my house as a little kid ,and both were on my side of the street so I could go any time , one had a big soda fountain and sold bread and milk and packaged ice cream . the other was a bottler and delivery but the had an out let for Ice cream and sodas plus bread butter cottage cheese eggs . the best was the old one quart bottles with the bulb on top for the cream and the cardboard disc stopper(now they are pokyman) . Back before the school lunch push started you could buy white milk or chocolate in little 1/2 pint glass bottles . the dairy used Divco trucks and there shop backed up to my friends back yard I watched them repair many trucks through the windows . Edited September 30, 2017 by gxbxc 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyT Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 Schneiders Dairy, Near Whitehall pa served the whole south hills of Pittsburgh Pa! Delivered all the dairy products plus bread,orange juice, and the maple rolls! We had one of those galvanized boxes, had about a half inch of insulation inside. My buddy's dad next door drove about a 15 ft reefer old cornbinder,brought it home every night,did his deliveries in the am.Meadow Gold Dairy. There was a big Isalys dairy plant on the north side of Pittsburgh,Where the Klondike bar originated! The milkman wore a white uniform with a billed cap and a little bow tie! Like the old Texaco gas station guys wore!.who would have.ever thought they would be building street rods out of the old utilitarian Divco trucks?! When I owned a hotshot rig we used to haul the little "mail jeeps" by Grumman Industries in Marcy PA. Weren't really jeeps but we're referred to as such! The Divco subject got me thinking about the many "purpose built" light and medium vehicles of the past like the "metro" vans and the old "checker" cabs which used a GM chassis and running gear. I believe private individuals could buy the Checker marathon which was the "civilian" version of the taxicab! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
70mackMB Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 8 hours ago, BillyT said: The Divco subject got me thinking about the many "purpose built" light and medium vehicles of the past like the "metro" vans and the old "checker" cabs which used a GM chassis and running gear. I believe private individuals could buy the Checker marathon which was the "civilian" version of the taxicab! Funny you mentioned the old Checker Marathon. l just saw one in Concord NH last week. lt was in sad looking shape but still going under it's own power! Hippy........... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 aaaaaaah the good ole days.....here in reno recently a couple of the big grocery chains decided to let people place thier grocery list on line....and they will fill your order and deliver it to your house...i think its a fabulous idea,,,,especially for older folks that cant more around so well.....just like the old corner stores used to do.......bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobert62 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 46 minutes ago, mowerman said: aaaaaaah the good ole days.....here in reno recently a couple of the big grocery chains decided to let people place thier grocery list on line....and they will fill your order and deliver it to your house...i think its a fabulous idea,,,,especially for older folks that cant more around so well.....just like the old corner stores used to do.......bob Giant food stores out of Carlise Pa started offering that as well from some of their stores too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddog13407 Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 great for some of us who have the '' I hate people'' attitude lately to.....haha I know I have those days 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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