Milk truck post reminded me of something

Richard G. · Feb 14, 2014

In the late 50's, my 2 brothers and I were headed to school behind the milk truck taking milk in the half pint bottles to our school. He ran the stop sign and headed across a ditch into a field. We stopped to check on him and he jumped out and hollered 'No brakes boys'. Lots of milk pouring out the back of the truck.
I always carried 3 pennies to school to buy an extra bottle of milk at lunch.
Richard in NW SC

ShadetreeRet · Feb 14, 2014

That were a couple years back, weren't it? I 'member them daze. When I started school lunch cost a dime, then went to twenty cents, high school was a quarter. Hmmm, did that really happen,or did I just dream all that? Things sure have changed!

johnlobb · Feb 14, 2014

In Junior High I used to work in the cafeteria so I could get a free lunch, washing dishes in the big commercial dishwasher.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 14, 2014

I remember more than once, being near the end of the lunch line. They would be out of some things, so we'd get a few vegs etc.
Coming out of the serving line, we'd pass the "Teachers Table" where they'd have several platters of Fried chicken, yeast rolls or whatever the meats were.
Of course I still paid full price for 1/2 a meal,while those swine had more than they could in their trough.

pete black · Feb 14, 2014

I never had to but remember a lot of boys did. do not recall girls having to work in the kitchen. most of my lunches was in a sack with the sack folded up and carried home in your back pocket. carton of milk was a nickel. anybody remember folding the carton top closed and stomping on the carton. always brought a teacher running.

HillsofTn · Feb 14, 2014

SD,

I never begrudged them their "extras" back in those days because I realized they didn"t get time off for their lunch. They HAD to eat with the kids and supervise them at the same time. They really didn"t make that much of a salary and most of them had to accept some sort of menial job for the three months they were off without pay.

(Probably much different now-a-days.)

Richard G. · Feb 14, 2014

Another thing I will never forget. There were 2 girls in our class that were very poor. They and others got their meals free. These girls wore feed sack dresses and if we had fried chicken at lunch, they would eat the meat off the bones an then eat the bones. Probably didn't get much to eat at home.
Richard

Nancy Howell · Feb 14, 2014

Funny, I don't remember how much school lunches cost.

I do remember how much candy bars and bubble gum cost. Guess you remember the important stuff, right?

Tom in TN · Feb 14, 2014

Richard,

I didn't attend any schools that had a cafeteria until I got into high school. Even then, I always carried my lunch, but I do remember buying those little half-pints of milk.

Three cents for white milk, and five cents for chocolate.

Things have changed a bit in the past 50 plus years.

Tom in TN

Alan K · Feb 14, 2014

And they say there is no such thing as a free lunch ( My apologies ...I just had to do some humor this mornning )

rrlund · Feb 14, 2014

Reminds me of something that happened to me with the can truck. Had a 72 Chevy C50 with vacuum brakes. I was going down hill behind a pickup,and a school bus was coming down the hill the other way and flipped the warning lights on. The old guy driving the pickup spiked the brakes. I stepped down on mine too quick and they hard pedaled on me. I slammed right in to the back of him. I jumped out and ran up beside him and asked if he was OK? All he said was dammit,can't you see boy?

Anonymous-0 · Feb 14, 2014

me tooo ,, cept I started in the 6th grade because I only had As and Bs , got a free lunch just for setting up the milk , , when I started school in 63 , all milk was 1cent , and chocolate was 2 cents, ,, went to hi school and got paid 2 dollars per 1 hour shift workin the lunch line ,, started busin tables , the football jerks always left their trays ,,, serveral started jeerin me because my older brother stole one of their girl friends ,,,one tried to trip me ,, ithrew everything on my trayat him and his girly friends , and proceeded to wop him over the head with the tray ,,principal put me in the milk line , and got to have lunch with a pretty gal cashier that now delivers our mail...

Unruh · Feb 14, 2014

I went to a country school in the '40s'. Never heard of a school lunch other than what we carried to school in a Karo syrup pail or such. One family was very poor and several times I saw David eat a very small bird and he admitted it was a pigeon. The sparrows they caught were used for soup. Their father died when David was 7 years old.

noslendnalel · Feb 14, 2014

Feel sorry for that family. Was a family in our rural school that brought Lard sandwiches to school, another starving kid would eat the orange peelings. My mom was the teacher and she would bring something edible for these kids, she said the kids couldn't learn on an empty stomach and our family didn't have much to spare either but we did have food

Mike (WA) · Feb 14, 2014

We had a big old building that was separate from the main school, which housed the library on one side, the lunch room on the other, and kitchen across the back. When I was in second grade (1955), they were short of room, so they converted both rooms to school rooms. The problem was, everybody in the school ate their lunch at our desks. We always dreaded the days they had spinach or some other unpopular vegetable- because half of us would have spinach ditched in our desk, on top of our books. That led to a temporary change in rules- you could turn down something you didn't like, so it didn't wind up in our desks.

JF in MI · Feb 14, 2014

Going back about 35 years I was going up a hill, on the highway, around a slight right hand curve. I was passing one of those big milk trucks and one of the hatches (or something) sprung a leak and washed my truck with milk. So thankful I wasn't passing a septic truck.

ShadetreeRet · Feb 14, 2014

I did that one year also. IIRC, it was eighth grade.

farmerwithmutt · Feb 14, 2014

I forgot all about that stomping on a carton simple fun in simpler times

PJH · Feb 14, 2014

Speaking of septic trucks - I saw one in Florida that had a sign painted on it:

"We haul milk on weekends"

pete black · Feb 14, 2014

saw one with "stool bus" written on it.

T in NE · Feb 14, 2014

Riding in the milk truck when I was a kid, on the way to New Wilmington, luckily going up a large hill, an Amish buggy pulled back off the shoulder and into the lane after letting several cars by. I think that was the first time I smelled truck brakes.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 14, 2014

southeren ohio school didnt serve lunch we brought it from home tided up in a rag milk was 1 cent we ate at our chair no lunch room. walked about a mile down a gas well road to school bus stop.no bridges you walked throu the creek. this was about 1958.

EricInSEI · Feb 14, 2014

I remember milk was 2 cents when I started school and was up to a nickel when I graduated. Most kids bought chocolate milk because the white milk often had ice in it and was gross. Only the new building (North Dearborn High School) had a cafeteria, on Tuesdays the women's groups from the 3 local churches, the PTA, and the BVFD auxiliary took turns selling lunch. Hot dogs were 10 cents, barbeque 15 cents, potato chips, cupcakes, and brownies were 5 cents. The barbeque was made to a common recipe in the women's homes and brought to school to make sandwiches. Can you imagine what the health people would say about that today? Cupcakes and brownies were home made and donated.

While we had water fountains in the building, we didn't have restrooms. I had teachers who said when they went there the outhouses were in use, by the time I went there they had built a little block building next to the school that had modern restrooms. The boys side had urinals that were set into the concrete floor, perfect for the first graders to use. I have no idea what the girls side looked like of course.

mpowis · Feb 14, 2014

wow, I totally forgotten about stomping those little cartons

merlynr · Feb 14, 2014

At one point in my school you could purchase a lunch ticket for $1.25 which was good for 5 lunches and each time you used it they would punch it with the hole puncher. Occasionally someone would borrow your ticket if they didn't have a quarter and hopefully they would pay you back.

barnE · Feb 16, 2014

Could not affore school lunch. Saw kids eat ketchup sandwiches. Detroit 1950. Dave

barnE · Feb 16, 2014

Milk truck had no seat and driver had to stand up. Right or nO. Dave

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