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From: "ROY SCHMIDT" <>
Subject: Re: [MD-BALTO-CUL-] Some things I remember in Baltimore
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:23:04 -0600


Yep,

and then there was, "let me tell you friends of mine, Philadelphia
Scrapple's fine."

>>> "ruth brooks" <> 10/26/00 03:06PM >>>
Roy,
How about this one -

"We feed out doggie Thrivo
He's very much aliveo
Full of pep and vim
If you want a perkie pup
You'd better hurry up
Buy Thrivo for him."

Ruth
----- Original Message -----
From: ROY SCHMIDT <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: [MD-BALTO-CUL-] Some things I remember in Baltimore


> Ruth,
>
> I remember them too. I even recall a jingle:
>
> "Milk, and butter, and eggs, and cheese.
> Fresh from the farm to you.
> If you don't own a cow,
> Call Cloverland now.
> It's North nine two two two two."
>
> If you have ever wondered about the power of advertising, I am
sure
> it is forty or fifty years since I heard that one.
>
> Speaking of the Bond Bakery, both my mother and grandmother worked
> there. The bakery sponsored a radio show featuring "The Singing
> Bakers." The announcer was Harry von Zell, remember him? Of course
> everything was live, and Harry was supposed to begin the program in
a
> big voice, saying, "The Bond Bread Bakers of America are on the
air."
> Well, one Sunday it came out, "The Blond Bed Breakers of America
are
> on the air." Some may remember that it was also Harry von Zell who
> introduced, "The President of the United States, Hoobert Heever."
>
> Roy
>
> >>> "ruth brooks" <> 10/26/00 08:51AM >>>
> 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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