Bread trucks
Mar 27, 2024 23:17:40 #
Who remembers the Helms and Peterwheat trucks driving around the neighborhoods selling bread and other pastries?
Mar 28, 2024 02:41:19 #
Fishandrods wrote:
Who remembers the Helms and Peterwheat trucks driving around the neighborhoods selling bread and other pastries?
Well, I grew up in Texas and we didn't have THOSE companies but we had Mrs Barids bread, and they had those trucks.
Mar 28, 2024 06:04:23 #
Grizzly 17
Loc: South central Pa
Fishandrods wrote:
Who remembers the Helms and Peterwheat trucks driving around the neighborhoods selling bread and other pastries?
Around here it was Valley Pride.
If I was at grandparents I got to pick one treat.
I got either chocolate or spice cake.
Remember the metal box on the porch for the milkman.
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Mar 28, 2024 06:38:51 #
We had numerous bakeries delivering bread and other goodies. The smell was amazing!
Mar 28, 2024 07:28:26 #
Fishandrods wrote:
Who remembers the Helms and Peterwheat trucks driving around the neighborhoods selling bread and other pastries?
Ice cream man yes, but bread man not until I was in the Air Force.
Always knew when he pulled up to the chow hall by the aroma coming in the barracks window.
Mar 28, 2024 07:33:18 #
Grizzly 17 wrote:
Around here it was Valley Pride.
If I was at grandparents I got to pick one treat.
I got either chocolate or spice cake.
Remember the metal box on the porch for the milkman.
👍👍
If I was at grandparents I got to pick one treat.
I got either chocolate or spice cake.
Remember the metal box on the porch for the milkman.
👍👍
Yep, and the milk came from the cows right down the dirt road I lived on. Egg farm was the other direction. Everything else came out of the back yard
Mar 28, 2024 07:49:19 #
dbed
Loc: POMME DE TERRE LAKE MISSOURI
No bread trucks in rural Nebraska eggs came from the henhouse and milk from the cows in the barn gathered the eggs when I was 7 and started milking the cows by hand when I was 8
Mar 28, 2024 08:13:16 #
Frank romero
Loc: Clovis, NM
Fishandrods wrote:
Who remembers the Helms and Peterwheat trucks driving around the neighborhoods selling bread and other pastries?
Rainbow bread here. Cambell’s milk delivered milk.
Mar 28, 2024 10:51:10 #
Mar 28, 2024 11:29:56 #
Grizzly 17 wrote:
Around here it was Valley Pride.
If I was at grandparents I got to pick one treat.
I got either chocolate or spice cake.
Remember the metal box on the porch for the milkman.
👍👍
If I was at grandparents I got to pick one treat.
I got either chocolate or spice cake.
Remember the metal box on the porch for the milkman.
👍👍
We didn’t have the box because my mother never had to work and was always home but my widowed aunt who worked and did have a wooden one and the challenge milkman would put the snow ice in the box with her milk and other dairy products inside. And her house was right on our way home after school and we would eat some of the snow.
Mar 28, 2024 12:33:38 #
We had a Peterwheat bakery in the town I grew up in. I can still smell it. Now it’s an apartment complex. We also had a n icehouse. And when they cleaned it out occasionally, there would be a big pile of shavings and we would play in it like we were up in the snow. And a couple of Mom and Pop grocery stores on the corner…🐟on
Mar 28, 2024 13:42:25 #
Mar 28, 2024 18:34:24 #
Pattrains wrote:
I grew up in El Cajon and looked forward to the Helm's trucks.
I grew up in east San Diego and when they came around they had a whistle that would sound off letting know us they were close so we could get them to stop the panel truck. They would swing open the rear door and slide open the cookie drawer so we could pick what cookie we wanted.
Mar 28, 2024 18:50:07 #
DozerDave wrote:
We had a Peterwheat bakery in the town I grew up in. I can still smell it. Now it’s an apartment complex. We also had a n icehouse. And when they cleaned it out occasionally, there would be a big pile of shavings and we would play in it like we were up in the snow. And a couple of Mom and Pop grocery stores on the corner…🐟on
We did have the bakery on our main boulevard thru San Diego that we would cruise up and down hitting the drive thru Oscar’s and jack in the box’s in the late 50s and the 60s. Funny time while in high school 3 of us surfers were driving by the bakery and my one friend said man something smells really good and I immediately said I cut one and he called me every bad name he could think of. I would remind him many years later about it and he’d still call me a SOB. Surfing and hot cars and girls were our lives back then!! Also parties and beer was happening to.
Mar 28, 2024 21:32:37 #
Fishandrods wrote:
We did have the bakery on our main boulevard thru ... (show quote)
Yeah, grew up in East Bay Area. Cruised “The Strip”, East 14th St. in my ‘60 Impala. Surfed and spent a lot of time in Santa Cruz. Yep, it was cars, girls and parties in the 60’s. The kids today will never experience what we had…
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