Jobs portrayed on LITB that are mostly no more

[Tankeryanker]

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

[stevea]

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-...dairy-inc.html

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

[biffbronson]

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.

[stevea]

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.

[CosmicCharlie]

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.

[Sgt. Saunders]

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!”

[stevea]

Originally Posted by Sgt. Saunders

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.

[Sgt. Saunders]

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.