The paperboy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im-4J-atM84

And the gas station attendent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZF6AJiYvAA

I remember the paperboy growing up. Not so much the gas station attendent

The episode when the Cleaver men made the paperboy's sister breakdown. Big bullies. Snicker :)


I remember in the show how much money eddie was making working his job.

I'm guessing New Jersey still has gas station attendants, due to an old state law. But everywhere else, they've gone by the wayside.

I'm guessing New Jersey still has gas station attendants, due to an old state law. But everywhere else, they've gone by the wayside.

Yes, Eddie could still get a job pumping gas in the great Garden State today. Eddie could have impressed Wally, Lumpy and Beaver with tales of how he personally pumped gas for such notables as Bruce Springsteen, John Bon Jovi, Danny DeVito, Cory Booker, Tony Soprano, Ann Hathaway and Bruce Willis.

People, you know, whom the always socially-conscious Eddie would characterize as individuals who “mattered” or who could help him “get somewhere” in life. :rolleyes:

Another gone-by-the-wayside job would be the old "soda jerk." So no more Eddie Haskell demanding to hear the list of ice cream flavors, or the sandwiches offered.

In those days I don't remember any lunch counters in South Jersey. In the borough of Medford Lakes there was a tiny hole-in-the-wall drug store. In slightly-larger Medford there was a Rexall drug store, in which there was no room for a counter either. In the area there were no larger stores where there would be a counter with a soda jerk. The largest store was an Acme grocery, large only when it moved from of the center of Medford, out onto Route 70.

Here in Indianapolis I do remember a counter at the G. C. Murphy 5 and 10 that was open into the 1990s. They served a good burger. I don't know if they had Lumpy's favorite pistachio ice cream.

There is probably still home milk delivery with glass bottles in some areas, but the service has been mostly phased out.

Russ (Russell) Thorson is credited as playing the "Man with Milk Bottles" on Leave it to Beaver. The series, which aired from 1957 to 1963, reflected the common 1950s practice of home milk delivery, often remembered for the sound of crates.

The Cleavers had a man delivering cleaning, and I think a bread man stopped by. In the real world there was a Bond bread man.

As much milk as they drank, there was bound to be a milkman, too.

There is probably still home milk delivery with glass bottles in some areas, but the service has been mostly phased out.

Russ (Russell) Thorson is credited as playing the "Man with Milk Bottles" on Leave it to Beaver. The series, which aired from 1957 to 1963, reflected the common 1950s practice of home milk delivery, often remembered for the sound of crates.
What Happened to the Milk Man?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsVbPE7Rm1I

What Happened to the Milk Man?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsVbPE7Rm1I

It looks like a pretty cool new channel. I will have to check it out.

You have probably seen it all at age 116. :)

It looks like a pretty cool new channel. I will have to check it out.

You have probably seen it all at age 116. :)

I remember before there were milk men.

Are there any young’uns left who will let you spit off a bridge, for a nominal fee? Does that qualify as a “job”?

There are still ice cream trucks, but very few “Igloo” style vehicles….

Or, no more vendors walking all over the beach, offering sodas and junk.

(Good thread btw)

cd

Are there any young’uns left who will let you spit off a bridge, for a nominal fee? Does that qualify as a “job”?

There are still ice cream trucks, but very few “Igloo” style vehicles….

Or, no more vendors walking all over the beach, offering sodas and junk.

(Good thread btw)

cd

During the summer we have an ice cream truck that drives onto our street to sell treats. You can always recognize it by the calliope-style music it plays.

In our area, no such thing as a teenager mowing lawns. All in our area there landscaping companies which charge a minimum of $100.00 for lawn cutting. With landscapers you are paying much much more than a teenager. You either mow the lawn yourself (hard to do when you are 70+) or pay a fortune.

In our area, no such thing as a teenager mowing lawns. All in our area there landscaping companies which charge a minimum of $100.00 for lawn cutting. With landscapers you are paying much much more than a teenager. You either mow the lawn yourself (hard to do when you are 70+) or pay a fortune.

If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s yard work of almost any kind. I’m in a mobile home park, and mowing is handled in our monthly fee, which is over $100.

I do pruning if the weather is nice and cool, AND it’s the week of bulk pickup.

cd

In our area, no such thing as a teenager mowing lawns. All in our area there landscaping companies which charge a minimum of $100.00 for lawn cutting. With landscapers you are paying much much more than a teenager. You either mow the lawn yourself (hard to do when you are 70+) or pay a fortune.

Teenagers don't do any of that around here, either. No lawn mowing, snow shoveling, soda jerking, Igloo-bar selling.

Unless you mow your own, only landscape companies mow lawns now.

Although not seen on LItB, oil deliveries to residential homes used to be fairly common; not anymore, at least not in my area.

When I was very young, I was excited to see the yellow Waggoner's Oil tanker truck pull up and deliver heating oil via a hose connected to the side of my house.

The oil went into a big, black horizontal tank in the basement that supplied our old oil-burning furnace. We converted to natural gas heating in 1978.

^^^
Rual CA, the homes still have a propane tank and once a year you have someone come out and fill it.

Yes, when I was a kid we had heating oil delivered periodically. And this house here had a furnace that was converted from oil to natural gas by the previous owners.

In the 60s we had a milkman who delivered bottles of milk, and we put the empty bottles in a metal carton for him, that was by the front door. It had the company name on it, Locust Lane Dairy.

https://www.bizapedia.com/nj/locust-lane-farm-dairy-inc.html

Earlier in the thread I probably mentioned the Bond Bread man, who also came around once in a while.

We had an insulated metal milk box sitting on the concrete behind our house, near the back door. "Reliable Dairy" was pressed into the side, and the top flipped open. My older brother has mentioned remembering accidentally breaking one of the glass bottles.

We kept that box for years and years; finally my dad gave it to the Northern Indiana Historical Society / Center for History. (Also some other stuff like my grandmother's old wooden ironing board.)

Houses next door to both mine and my niece's still have little dairy doorways, up relatively high; they're original "built-ins" by their side doors. Dairy products would be delivered into those, and I'm pretty certain the resident could access from inside the house (no need to brave the elements) - little double doors.

Yes, the top flipped open. The milkman took the empty bottles (we didn't call it recycling--it just made sense for the dairy to clean and reuse the bottles) and put in the new ones-4% milk, no such thing as 2% in those days.

Undoubtedly, they were all insulated. In case the lady of the house was out to the store or at the beauty salon.

This current house has a little dairy doorway next to the garage door. With a small shelf inside, where the insulated flip top box probably sat.

We had a food garbage collector every 2 weeks - our garbage can was buried next to garage with a foot lever to flip it open. Sometimes skunks get in it and get trapped until we propped it open. The Garbage man's truck was by far the smelliest in town - Imagine having that job !

We also had a guy in a pickup that drove real slow and you would come out to have your knives sharpened for a small fee.

Although we never saw this type of business on LITB, but in the greater NYC area and also in northern New Jersey (and probably in other Middle-Atlantic states) there used to the “fruit man,” who would be on a horse-drawn wagon, selling fruits and vegetables to people as he drove through neighborhood streets during the 1950s and into the early 1960s.

Most of these men were from Italy and they would shout out in their colorful accents, “I gotta fresh-a broccoli and a fresh-a ba-na-nas for sale!” Sort of like how Mr. Bacciagalupe sold fruit and vegetables on a street corner to Bud Abbott and Lou Costello on Bud and Lou’s classic comedy tv series of the 1950s.

It would have been cool to have seen June Cleaver, standing on the sidewalk in front of her house and buying fresh zucchinis and tomatoes from the beloved Mr. Nunzio Mondello, the irrepressible Larry Mondello’s kindly grandfather from Italy.

Maybe that’s where Larry got all of those apples he ate on the show, from Grandpa Mondello? “Hey, Larry, eat another nice-a Gala Apple; you too thin!”

Although we never saw this type of business on LITB, but in the greater NYC are and also in northern New Jersey (and probably in other Middle-Atlantic states) there used to the “fruit man,” who would be on a horse-drawn wagon, selling fruits and vegetables to people as he drove through neighborhood streets during the 1950s and into the early 1960s.

Most of these men were from Italy and they would shout out in their colorful accents, “I gotta fresh-a broccoli and a fresh-a ba-na-nas for sale!” Sort of like how Mr. Bacciagalupe sold fruit and vegetables on a street corner to Bud Abbott and Lou Costello on Bud and Lou’s classic comedy tv series of the 1950s.

It would have been cool to have seen June Cleaver, standing on the sidewalk in front of her house and buying fresh zucchinis and tomatoes from the beloved Mr. Nunzio Mondello, the irrepressible Larry Mondello’s kindly grandfather from Italy.

Maybe that’s where Larry got all of those apples he ate on the show, from Grandpa Mondello? “Hey, Larry, eat another nice-a Gala Apple; you too thin!”

We never had the fruit and veg. guys in South Jersey.

Just the milkman, the oil delivery man, and occasionally the Bond bread man. The mailman came around in his own personal car. Which was difficult to drive with the steering wheel on the left.

Yes, those fruit men were definitely located in northern New Jersey. Think Tony Soprano and Frankie Valli, both originally from Newark, NJ, John Bon Jovi from Sayreville, NJ, Nathan Lane from Jersey City, NJ, Frank Langella from Bayonne, NJ, John Travolta from Englewood Cliffs, NJ and Meryl Streep from Summit, NJ.

I think that Bruce Springsteen from Freehold, NJ, Danny DeVito from Asbury Park, NJ and
Jack Nicholson from Neptune City, NJ lived too far south in the Garden State to have ever bought their produce from a fruit man.