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From: "Janice Creamer" <>
Subject: RE: [MD-BALTO-CUL-] Some things I remember in Baltimore
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:30:10 -0400
In-Reply-To: <OE22n5U9T3TGJ2TUSzb000004e3@hotmail.com>


I also have a glass bottle from Greenspring.
Janice

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From: ruth brooks [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 10:53 AM
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Subject: [MD-BALTO-CUL-] Some things I remember in Baltimore


We had a "bread man" who delivered bread & pastries. I remember Bond Bakery
and there was one other.

We had a "milk man" - Cloverland, Green Spring, Western Md. Dairies. You
had a standing order but left a note in one of the empty bottles for extra
milk or cream. Milk wasn't homogenized, cream was on the top. Some winter
mornings the cream has frozen and pushed up the bottle top. We also bought
unpasturized milk by the gallon directly from a dairy farm.

We had an "egg man" who delivered eggs. Sometimes they'd carry chicken or
fresh corn in the summer.

We had an "ice man" for the "ice box"; no freezers yet. In the summer kids
would beg him for a little piece of ice to suck on.

Coal was delivered down a chute through a basement window into the "coal
bin" in the "cellar". The furnace had to be banked at night, whatever that
meant.

A dry cleaner picked up and delivered clothes and laundered men's shirts.

An insurance man came once a month to collect the little life insurance
premium.

We had a "Good Humor Man".

And, of course, doctors made house calls.

Ruth
Wilmington, DE


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