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Thanks. I saw it when we were building MEC, alas too far for me to go just for a shave.
I remember the milk man delivering to our house and the milk came in glass containers.
Mr. Reed was his name and it said Clark's on the side of his truck.
My father used to tell me of the ice man that would deliver the ice for their refrigerator and of my grandfather dropping out of school in grade 2 to help his father in delivering coal and shoveling it down the old coal chutes. We can't even imagine those days now.
Mr. Reed was his name and it said Clark's on the side of his truck.
My father used to tell me of the ice man that would deliver the ice for their refrigerator and of my grandfather dropping out of school in grade 2 to help his father in delivering coal and shoveling it down the old coal chutes. We can't even imagine those days now.
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Eaton's and Simpson's delivery to your door in their own trucks. Picked-up returns too!!
There use be be a truck that would roll down the residential streets selling soft drinks in cartons.
They would come weekly and exchange the empty bottles.
Another time selling kitchen items like aluminum foil and plastic wrap.
They would come weekly and exchange the empty bottles.
Another time selling kitchen items like aluminum foil and plastic wrap.
First Canadian Place still has one which pretty much looks exactly like this.I remember shoe shine stands in airports and hotels.
Old country nah! That happened here had a math test after first week in grade 1. Teacher called up a student to get their test. Then she would have you lay your palms up on the desk ( she was kind enough to have student stand on the stool so their hands were flat) then reached for the 1 foot ruler depending on the amount of incorrect answers was your reward ! When my name was called I ran out of the class I didn't plan that to well needless to say!
LOL! That was my job as a kid in the old country- moving 5T of coal into its proper storage after delivery. Every fall, like clockwork and it would take me all day. I thanked heavens the year we switched to coke-
Oh, the good old days. One particularly brutal teacher, that's when I was in trade school, had his car "parked" between two bollards with a couple of centimeters between the bollards and each bumper. But, he truly got the message when we leaned his car against the school's wall(Trabants were very light).
Not in the 20's but in the early 50's in Ottawa. I remember the ice man, carrying blocks of ice with those tongs.
We also had the "mortgage man" coming around to pick up the mortgage payments in person.
...with a little cardboard top and a small tab to pull it up with. I think that they were quart size (Imperial of course.)
We had a Borden's Dairy guy deliver with Elsie the Cow on his truck. Once in a while he gave us a ride in his open door truck to the end of the block. He'd get fired for that nowadays.
The days when the LCBO did not have any products in the aisles. There were counters that had product lists with codes. You would fill out a form and the clerk would bring your order from the storage area.
The LCBO in Apsley used this system until into the early 1980's I think.
The LCBO in Apsley used this system until into the early 1980's I think.
