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Title: On Their Way Out
Post by: sparks on January 18, 2009, 08:34:29 PM
  Wish my wife's dog were on this list.

  http://scoutmagazine.ca/2009/01/03/24-things-about-to-go-extinct/ (http://scoutmagazine.ca/2009/01/03/24-things-about-to-go-extinct/)


  Are there actual milkmen still out delivering????  ???
Title: Re: On Their Way Out
Post by: Q on January 18, 2009, 09:05:20 PM
Quote from: sparks on January 18, 2009, 08:34:29 PM
  Are there actual milkmen still out delivering????  ???

Yep, Every Monday and Thursday here. I really hope some of the things on that list don't extinct any time soon, it'd be a shame to lose some of that stuff.
Title: Re: On Their Way Out
Post by: MountainDon on January 18, 2009, 09:07:07 PM
I'm amazed Conner. Where is that?
Title: Re: On Their Way Out
Post by: glenn kangiser on January 18, 2009, 11:31:50 PM
I was a milkman for a few years also...for my dad 67 to 69 and a few years earlier before I could drive - Lincoln City, Oregon area.- I quit and a few years later moved to California in a Milk truck - drove it down from Oregon pulling my 59 Pontiac.  I'm already extinct... [crz]
Title: Re: On Their Way Out
Post by: Q on January 19, 2009, 08:18:21 AM
Quote from: MountainDon on January 18, 2009, 09:07:07 PM
I'm amazed Conner. Where is that?

It's a tiny, tiny place in Nova Scotia. A lot of the small communities here still have milkmen.
Title: Re: On Their Way Out
Post by: John_C on January 19, 2009, 09:15:13 AM
Just curious.  How much is a quart or gallon of milk delivered?   

Since you are, to us, in some sort of time warp do they still deliver the milk in a glass  "milk bottle"?  I remember putting the empty bottles outside the door with a note for the milkman telling him how many qts we wanted.
Title: Re: On Their Way Out
Post by: Q on January 19, 2009, 09:43:44 AM
Quote from: John C on January 19, 2009, 09:15:13 AM
Just curious.  How much is a quart or gallon of milk delivered?   

Since you are, to us, in some sort of time warp do they still deliver the milk in a glass  "milk bottle"?  I remember putting the empty bottles outside the door with a note for the milkman telling him how many qts we wanted.


You can get a quart in glass but anything larger comes in plastic bottles So there is really not to many glass bottles for milk, but you can still get them. Mind you if you were to get a glass milk bottle they don't get picked up by the milkman again.

And as for being in a time warp, you probably couldn't begin to imagine how in the past we are here:)
Title: Re: On Their Way Out
Post by: southernsis on January 19, 2009, 09:49:42 AM
When we lived in Colorado, north of Denver, we had milk delivery. It was nice to go out on the porch to the box and get our milk. At the time it was only a few cents more than going to the store.
I knew it wouldn't be long for the land line phone to go away. I have been without a land line for 2 years now. All the video rental stores around here closed a long time ago.