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From: Mae Talbott <>
Subject: Re: [MD-BALTO-CUL-] Some things I remember in Baltimore
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 01:52:00 -0700


Ruth,
We didn't ask the Ice Man for ice to suck on. We would run after the
horse-drown, ice-cart (later motorized) and grab slivers of ice off the
tail gate. That was where he would chop up the large blocks of ice into
smaller ones to carry into the houses.
We had a coal furnace and the coal was delivered via the cellar window
just like you said. But we were lucky and didn't have to bank the
furnace each night. We had an Iron Fireman. That was an automatic bin
(with an auger that fed the coal from the bin into the furnace slowly all
day and night.) I shoveled coal into it each night and it would feed the
furnace for a whole day. I also used steel tongs to pick the clinkers
out of the furnace. Three times a week I'd have to lug the heavy buckets
of clinkers up the cellar stairs and put the them out on the curb for the
trash man to pick up in the morning.
My father was a doctor and he made house calls. He charged $3.00! An
office call was $2.00! And to think what we pay for an office call
today.
Mae
Mae Talbott
Hagerstown, MD


On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:30:10 -0400 "Janice Creamer"
<> writes:
> I also have a glass bottle from Greenspring.
> Janice
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ruth brooks [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 10:53 AM
> To:
> 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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