On Their Way Out

[sparks]

  Wish my wife's dog were on this list.

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


  Are there actual milkmen still out delivering? 

[Q]

  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.

[MountainDon]

I'm amazed Conner. Where is that?

[glenn kangiser]

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...

[Q]

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.

[John_C]

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.

[Q]

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:)

[southernsis]

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.