Mom's box of See's Candies

relayer

I remember growing up and my parents would take the old coins they found in circulation and put them a See's Candy box marked "Special Currency". My brother and I would go thru them for our Lincoln and Mercury collections, but didn't get the big coins.

When the paper boy or milk man (yes, a person actually brought bottles of milk to your house in those days) came to collect and my mom (God rest her soul) didn't have any money to pay she'd take the change out of the box to pay.

It was a 3 lb. box and I remember it being full of silver change. I still have it and got it out to look through it and it was down to mostly wheat cents with about 100 mercury dimes, about 20 quaters and a handful of Franklins.

Kind of makes me wish I didn't drink so much milk growing up.

MrKelso

Great to be able to remember stuff like that. I remember our Milkman 9 cents a bottle 36 cents twice a week and the milk was left in a wooden box on the stoop and payment was in change in a little box next to it on fridays.

Outhaul

Uhh...I WAS a milkman...old 50's Divco truck (driven standing up), glass bottles, shaved ice and all. I remember going to the dairy (where they actually processed the raw milk from their own herd) at 2:00AM, load my truck, fill it (using a shovel) with shaved ice, doing my rounds and finishing just in time for school. Sunny Meadows Dairy, Chelmsford, MA.

Collection day I used to get it all...Buffs, Franklins, Walkers, and this was AFTER 1964! Some people stil spent it.

Cheers,

Bob

ClarkOfKent

Around these parts, we also had the potato chip delivery guy. Charles's Chips. Anybody remember those? Brown delivery truck. The chips came in a round, brown tin. I guess chips were considered more of a treat in those days.

Outhaul

Right you are, Clark! Snack food like that was rare on my table. I don't recall a chip guy, but we DID have a cake and pastry guy...the Cushman Man! Black & white Boyertown stepvan. Best chocolate cake and donuts around...better than Entenman's (sp?). Ahhh... the tastes of youth!...My YOUTH!
WHERE THE HELL DID IT GO!!!

Cheers,

Bob

LucyBop

ClausUrch

ROAAAAR!!!
You guys are breakin' me up!!!

KlectorKid

Now, Now childern u could hurt some1's feelings.

jbsteven

I am a little young for the milkman thing but do remember Charles Chips in Dallas Texas. This is making my 32 years seem like a old man.............geez

MrKelso

<< <i>Uhh...I WAS a milkman...old 50's Divco truck (driven standing up), glass bottles, shaved ice and all. I remember going to the dairy (where they actually processed the raw milk from their own herd) at 2:00AM, load my truck, fill it (using a shovel) with shaved ice, doing my rounds and finishing just in time for school. Sunny Meadows Dairy, Chelmsford, MA.

Collection day I used to get it all...Buffs, Franklins, Walkers, and this was AFTER 1964! Some people stil spent it.

Cheers,

Bob >>



Bob how rusted did the inside of those milk truck get?

CLASSICS

i think iam starting to tone do to age........ i remember when dad brought home a new television set in the earily 50s, the neighbors would come over to watch, my grand-dad thought it was a total waste of time, until he saw that wrestling and baseball would be shown, so my dad got him one too.. he also drove a new 1955 chevy, i still can picture it in my minds eye.....charles chips...white castle hambugers.... howdy doody.. its was a great.... dad is gone, grand-dad too, the chevy who knows where it ended up...tv has long been replaced....along with the tv shows......but i have something more precious than gold....the wonderful memories of them all

merz2

relayer
Your story reminds me of the times I spent with my mom.She came to live with me a cpl years ago.I actually got her interested in coins and this board.She used to sit behind me while I read the threads and made replies.I was glad we shared those times.

Gemini

I used to drink alot of milk until the cow fell on me...
I could hardly utter a word after that...

Outhaul

MrKelso:

Pretty rusty...always touching them up with rust inhibitor. I remember during the summer when school was out and I could do my route later, the kids would line up with their dixie cups for a cupful of shaved ice. I kept a bottle of Za-Rex handy to pour over it. Anyone remember Za-Rex??? How about Bosco?

Cheers,

Bob

NoviceKris

Everyone all nostaglic now for ice cold milk in..yes, glass bottles??? You all need to move to downstate Illinois. I was getting three gallons a week, along with fresh cream, yogurt, cottage cheese delivered to my house in Springfield twice a week up until I buy a house out of town a year ago (no longer in the delivery area). Sure, it was four bucks a gallon but worth it. Maybe for the sake of nostalgia I should pay the milkman in junk silver coins.

Kris

clw54

I'm nostalgic for when there was good stuff in change.

StillLurking

GP

yummm thursdays bread

Outhaul

How about "Creamy-Top" milk. Pasteurized only, not homogenized. Cream floated to the top. MMMMMmmm...M

Draco

Wow. . .at 36, I'm much too young for any of that stuff.

Thanks for sharing those memories, though

richbeat

I got a chance to try some See's candy in 2001 when I was in Corona del Mar, CA on vacation visiting my wife's old stomping grounds. It's a bit pricey but it's some of the best candy I've ever had. I've even had the two pound nuts and chews mailed to me a few times. My wife grew up on Laura Scudders potato chips.

prooflike

The best I can remember is the Good Humor Ice Cream truck when I was a kid.

MrLee

Laura Scudder's, Bell Brand, Granny Goose. Pretty much all gone now. I wonder why?

Thenewguy

I remember that my favorite ice cream bar was called a frosty dog. It was a round bar about 8 inches long that was chocolate covered vanilla ice cream with no stick. That was in the early to mid 60's. My grandmother used to make rootbeer in a big crock and I remember the old tool that was used to put the caps on the bottles. None of the commecially made rootbeers even come close to being as good as hers was.
Man do I feel old now
TNG