Does anyone else remember the father and son team who used to bring fresh produce to your door with an old bus? A rolling farmer's market. They were Italian and I think their name was Di something. My mother could shop without bringing all her kids out to the store, and the vegetables and fruit were of a quality that I think most people born after the baby boom have never seen. We didn't know how good we had it.

There was a guy named Pasquale Mangino that used to deliver fresh vegetables/fruit to my grandparents on Floral Ave in the 50's in an old school bus with shelves on both sides of the center isle in the back part of the bus.

FDA would shut it down immediately if they tried it today.

{Sigh}. If only we had more leaders who understood the delicate balance between necessary regulation and competition-stifling totalitarianism. I mean, I wouldn't want 50 vendors setting up shop in the street where I live, like some third world hellhole, but it's true, a lot of the things our grandparents did to be self-sufficient would probably be illegal today.
Fred Deluca, Subway founder, was recently quoted as saying he didn't think he'd be able to do it today with all the regulation. Does anyone remember Fred from his time at Linton High School?
How did I get off on this tangent? I meant this thread to be a distraction from the horror going on around me.

Quoted from Shadow

There was a guy named Pasquale Mangino that used to deliver fresh vegetables/fruit to my grandparents on Floral Ave in the 50's in an old school bus with shelves on both sides of the center isle in the back part of the bus.

You can find fresh produce at most local farmers markets.  Some are open all year.

Quoted from Box A Rox

You can find fresh produce at most local farmers markets.  Some are open all year.

The key word of the thread is nostalgia. You missed the point.

I don't remember people delivering fresh produce like you remember.  Sounds like a good idea and a wonderful memory.  I do remember that between the several farms owned by my mother's paternal and maternal cousins and my grandparents' own huge vegetable garden that they managed to keep several families well stocked with fruits and vegetables and - while they still raised them - pigs, ducks and chickens.  In fact, one of the delicacies that was served was duck's blood soup made from a freshly killed duck which was also roasted and enjoyed.  They stopped raising the docks around 1967 or 1968 so that put an end to that tradition.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

I don't remember people delivering fresh produce like you remember.  Sounds like a good idea and a wonderful memory.  I do remember that between the several farms owned by my mother's paternal and maternal cousins and my grandparents' own huge vegetable garden that they managed to keep several families well stocked with fruits and vegetables and - while they still raised them - pigs, ducks and chickens.  In fact, one of the delicacies that was served was duck's blood soup made from a freshly killed duck which was also roasted and enjoyed.  They stopped raising the docks around 1967 or 1968 so that put an end to that tradition.

Does this guy always have to go on and on about his family, his extended family, his distant family, his remote family, his barely related-to-him family and all their accomplishments?    He never writes about what he does, his accomplishments, his wife, his children, his job, unemployable, his home.   Oh yeah, I forgot.

On nostalgia, how about when homeowners in the city were not paying the taxes of downtown.  How about when home values increaed.   How about when neighborhoods were safe.   How about when a homeowner who wanted or needed to sell their home in the city could do so quickly at a price higher than they bought if for.   How about when the city leaders cared about the neighborhoods.   As long as the dems are in charge, those days will NEVER come back.

Quoted from Madam X

{Sigh}. If only we had more leaders who understood the delicate balance between necessary regulation and competition-stifling totalitarianism. I mean, I wouldn't want 50 vendors setting up shop in the street where I live, like some third world hellhole, but it's true, a lot of the things our grandparents did to be self-sufficient would probably be illegal today.
Fred Deluca, Subway founder, was recently quoted as saying he didn't think he'd be able to do it today with all the regulation. Does anyone remember Fred from his time at Linton High School?
How did I get off on this tangent? I meant this thread to be a distraction from the horror going on around me.

People were more self-sufficient as you say.  Many had large gardens or at least some garden to grow fruits and vegetables.  There used to be a number of roadside stands -- some formal -- some just a card table on the front lawn.  

The other thing was that neighbors knew each other and shared.  My grandparents' large garden was right next to their neighbor's large garden -- and I remember how my grandmother and the lady next door had a couple of lawn chairs under a shade tree on the property line .. they would meet their after working the gardens and exchange stories and vegetables.  

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

People were more self-sufficient as you say.  

Yeah, something you certainly are not.



Nostalgia, when the county taxes were much  much lower 50 years ago, right?   Well, you STILL haven't provided one teeny weeny shred of proof that they are lower now than 50 years ago.

One fond memory from the 1960's was the milk man who made home deliveries.  We still have the milk box that stood on the back steps -- so if they want to revive that practice we are ready.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

One fond memory from the 1960's was the milk man who made home deliveries.  We still have the milk box that stood on the back steps -- so if they want to revive that practice we are ready.

Sounds like you belong on a hoarding show.

Everyone else would have to buy a milk box and in Schenectady people can't afford it, not after paying downtown's property taxes, not while downtown is causing a HUGE REDUCTION in the city's tax base thus forcing homeowners to pay even more taxes.

Of course, YOU would NEVER be willing to walk the city streets and deliver the milk, it would be better someone else get's shot.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

One fond memory from the 1960's was the milk man who made home deliveries.  We still have the milk box that stood on the back steps -- so if they want to revive that practice we are ready.

Come on DVOR.  Your still getting milk from your Momma.

The local markets used to offer home delivery -- at least I remember that Zubal's and Gabriel's offered that service.

Quoted from TakingItBack

Come on DVOR.  Your still getting milk from your Momma.

    So true.


Hey, if he wants milk delivered, all he has to do is use the computer in his two mommies' house and order online with Price Chopper or Shop Rite.   I mean, I would think he could figure out how to do that, since it's quite obvious he can figure out how to get to those other sites, if you know what I mean; wonder if the former business teacher has learned computers to find the trails of his visits by checking the cache.