Well into the sixties, ABBOTS DAIRY in South Philly had horse drawn wagons, with horses who KNEW the route. The milkman would start out from the dairy IN South Philly with his load, as he walked along, the horse followed along, stopping at each stop, seldom did the driver talk to the horse except maybe "Good Horse" or something like that. Sometimes the horse walked ahead to possibly hurry the milkman??? The dairy itself sat on a city block, multi-story building, the cows, the dairy eqpt, everything in the same building on multiple floors. Probably gone by now. Some of the best sandwiches in the world could be found in that neighborhood as well. Breakfast ( from Campo's ) was a very generous ham and cheese on a huge kaiser roll, first food since we got up at 0200 to take the truck into Philly, this was 1000 or later,. We washed the sandwich down with a quart of ABBOTS Chocolate milk. All that in the cab of a GMC truck heading back into the country. Livin' the dream for a 15-16 yr old. Jim "remembering on the Keystone Main" Lyle In a message dated 3/18/2013 9:48:53 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Group. I grew up in New Haven, Connecticut in the forties and fifties. Our milk man made his deliveries using a horse drawn wagon. It wasn't until after the end of world War II that his horse was replaced by a truck. The rag and junk man used a horse drawn wagon to make his rounds too. We had a blacksmith shop located about three blocks from our house. The world war probably had a lot to do with horses being used for so long because of rationing constraints etc. This was supposed to be a highly industrialized city in the northeast, but the horse held on for a long time before being finally displaced by vehicles. The trolley tracks were ripped up at about the same time. (Early fifties.) The 1940s to the 1950's were not as modern as most people nowadays seem to think they were. I hope that these observations have expanded your modeling possibilities. The farms located in the country around the city were largely not electrified. My dad had a farmer friend up in North Branford that had to pay so much per pole (along with his neighbors) to the electric company to get electricity installed on his farm. This was also done in the early fifties. The other old timers in this group could add their own similar observations. ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links
