Heck I remember trolleys too. As well as this:



Absorbed by Anheuser-Busch (AKA Big Beer) about 2006 who destroyed it. No longer brewed in Latrobe with soft mountain spring water (like any exists in New Jersey) nor in glass lined tanks and is just another Bud Lite clone -- which removed it as a competitor to Bud Lite which is AH's business model.

-- Chuck

 

All through Brooklyn milkmen used to drive those trucks. There were soda men too and ice men. The ice men used to have these big plier-like devices for picking up the blocks of ice to grind for delivery to the fish stores. I remember chain driven trucks too, but that was very early and they seemed to disappear by the mid/late 1950s.

Sometimes we'd see junkmen with horse pulled carts and knife sharpeners.

 

 

 

We won't bring up the milkman's daughter.

 

 

 

Rob, I think we've chatted about this in the past? My grandfather then uncle delivered seltzer and Kirsch's soda in Brooklyn for decades...

 

Kirsch's soda. They had a lemon lime soda to die for.

Remember the old fashioned seltzer bottles? I think clarabelle used to spray Buffalo Bob with seltzer from those bottles.

 

Of course... Like these? Although this bottle is probably 60s-70s era. My cousins (all older than me), all have family bottles that date from earlier. One of my cousins collected for a long time had some very intricate bottles from the 20s and 30s. He sold them when they moved from the Baltimore area out to central Washington.

As a kid, I liked the Fruit Punch soda and I think there was a Celery soda that was a knockoff of Dr Browns Cel-Ray. Mom liked it. Yuch!