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More than 100 dairies in Southern California once did, selling their milk in glass bottles during the 1950s. Now, that distinction belongs only to Broguiere’s Farm Fresh Dairy in Montebello. The ...
Orlando Laws, with Arctic Harvest Deliveries, collects empty milk bottles for Alaska Range Dairy on Dec. 15 at Blue Market in Anchorage. (Loren Holmes / ADN) ...
The bottled milk is available at the dairy's farm store in the Laveen community of Phoenix, 6024 W. Southern Ave., and at AJ's Fine Foods and Safeway stores, among others.
Reller, an Avon native who has lived in the town all of his 40 years, started collecting the old milk bottles years ago after finding one at the Folly Farm dairy operation just as it was closing.
National Milk Month was designated in 1937 as a way to promote drinking milk. It was initially created to stabilize the dairy demand when production was at a surplus, but has now developed into an ...
Jim George of Milford, descendent of dairy industry professionals including his grandfather and father and a passionate milk bottle and dairy memorabilia collector and vendor of nearly 30 years, ...
Roger Thomas of Cortland has been collecting milk bottles since the 1960's. He grew up on a dairy farm in Baldwinsville, across from Abbott's on NY-370. "I started when I was 12, digging through ...
June was first designated Dairy Month in 1937 as a way to help distribute extra milk. Now, years later, the tradition continues at county fairs and bottle shows, where collectors show off their ...
For Michael Marcus, whose family owns Marcus Dairy, the choice for collection is milk bottles. Embossed with dairy names from the 1920s, pyroglazed with colored lettering from the 1930s, Marcus ...
Earlier this year, the dairy was dumping 800 gallons of milk down the drain each week after a deal to get large volumes to military base commissary grocery stores fell through, he said.