Familiar Sights That Have Disappeared.

CoalHeat · Post by **CoalHeat** » Fri. Jul. 31, 2009 9:38 am

Divco Milk Truck.

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Try to find a payphone around!

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Fuller Brush Man (Red Skelton)

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samhill · Post by **samhill** » Fri. Jul. 31, 2009 10:06 am

You can still find pay phones in most areas where a lot of drug dealing is going on. The dealers use the pay phones because they know the cells aren`t private, & they protect the pay phones from being vandalized & sometimes from even being used by others.

Post by **coaledsweat** » Fri. Jul. 31, 2009 10:08 am

samhill wrote:they protect the pay phones from being vandalized

I like that, a drug dealer with a sense of civic duty.

Post by **Richard S.** » Fri. Jul. 31, 2009 10:28 am

The milk truck brings back memories, they used to deliver here many years ago when I was really young. Still have the insulated milk box that was on the porch for delivery. You used to be able to go up to truck and buy pints of chocolate milk, the guy would even hand them out sometimes if your parents were customers and he was making a delivery.

SMITTY · Post by **SMITTY** » Fri. Jul. 31, 2009 3:44 pm

I really miss this. Things just aren't the same around here with out it.

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JB Sparks · Post by **JB Sparks** » Fri. Jul. 31, 2009 8:12 pm

The Divco truck brings back memories, I used to ride in one with my father when he was delivering milk. His was red with a white top.

CoalHeat · Post by **CoalHeat** » Fri. Jul. 31, 2009 9:07 pm

Still have the insulated milk box that was on the porch for delivery.

I have ours as well.

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I have 2, one of them has a motor on it.

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tsb · Post by **tsb** » Fri. Jul. 31, 2009 9:09 pm

Did all the Divco trucks have brakes that squealed ?

Tom

JB Sparks · Post by **JB Sparks** » Fri. Jul. 31, 2009 9:12 pm

tsb wrote:Did all the Divco trucks have brakes that squealed ?

Yup... pretty much as I remember. It was from dust getting in between brake shoes and the drums.

CoalHeat · Post by **CoalHeat** » Fri. Jul. 31, 2009 9:30 pm

http://www.divco.org/index.html

009to090 · Post by **009to090** » Fri. Jul. 31, 2009 9:33 pm

When we were kids and saw the milkman arriving on a hot day, we would ask him for a couple chunks of ice to eat. No refridgeration back then. All the milk was cooled with huge chunks of ice.

CoalHeat · Post by **CoalHeat** » Fri. Jul. 31, 2009 9:55 pm

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JB Sparks · Post by **JB Sparks** » Fri. Jul. 31, 2009 10:01 pm

Hey!! is that the mayor in that hi-lift???

spc · Post by **spc** » Fri. Jul. 31, 2009 10:03 pm

I have a friend that drives for Christiansen's dairy & they still use Divco milk trucks exclusively.

"Still Doing Divcos: Christiansen's Dairy in North Providence, RI still sends a fleet of Divco milk trucks onto the streets every delivery day."

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009to090 · Post by **009to090** » Fri. Jul. 31, 2009 10:11 pm

JB Sparks wrote:Hey!! is that the mayor in that hi-lift???

Maybe his Dad.