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Foods for thought Jun 10, 2017 4:47:07 GMT

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Post by Doghouse6 on Jun 10, 2017 4:47:07 GMT

Jun 10, 2017 1:33:59 GMT MiketheMechanic said:

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Home-made bread that looked like a brick with thickly cut slices.

Milk delivered door-to-door in glass jars. I remember our family getting our milk delivered that way through the mid-70's. Milk hasn't tasted the same since.

Penny candy sold from an authentic candy shop. Grab a bunch of fresh licorice for only a penny. The good old days!

We had the milk deliveries 'til the end of the '60s, I think. The bottles had those thin cardboard stoppers/caps. Most of the houses in the Glendale, CA neighborhood in which I lived for 20 years were built between WWI and the Depression, and many had a little iron door of maybe a foot square next to the side or rear entrance for a compartment into which the milkman would stash your order, which was retrieved from a corresponding opening inside. Some featured the word "MILK" as part of the cast-iron design.

And when I think of the hundreds of little hands - mine among them - thrust into the containers of penny licorice to grab our handfuls...well, it's probably no surprise I caught colds and flu as often as I did.