Today I learned that it used to be employee owned and operated.
Today I learned that it used to be employee owned and operated.
Wow…
flashback
I remember it being on the curve where outer drive and conner went their separate way
I remember going north on outer drive over railroad tracks then past twin pines and then the curve to the left on outer drive headed towards VanDyke.
Last edited by Dan Wesson; January-16-25 at 05:08 AM.
On Outer Drive next to Holy Cross Hospital.
Hey, I remember hearing that the guy who played Santa Claus in the J.L. Hudson's Thanksgiving Parades back in the 1960’s, Bob Leslie, was also one of the guys who played Milky the Clown. He died when he was trying to light the furnace and it exploded in his face, his magic tricks couldn’t save him from that one.
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I hated Twin Pines milk, or any milk other than Bordens, as a child. I could taste the difference. My mother tried putting other milk in Bordens bottles and I still wouldn't drink it. I knew.
Screenshot from a video about the city's health department:
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Freep Oct 21, 1951
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Milky says the Magic Words "T_ _ _ P _ _ _ _!"
Ha! I wonder what the difference was, chemically?
Our parents would take us out to a restaurant and I always ate the parsley. Mom said don't eat that — it's just the garnish, a decoration. But I ate it anyway because it made the milk taste unmistakably sweeter. I suspect it had something to do with the lactose but I never learned why. And I've never heard anyone else report that effect.![]()
Maybe there was more than one Thanksgiving Santa because Rube Weiss from Huntington Woods, and father of musician Don Was, certainly performed the Santa roll on thanksgiving.
Rube was a local voice over actor going back to The Green Hornet and Lone Ranger radio days. Rube was also a WWII code breaker. Funny guy. Nice man.
https://fornology.blogspot.com/2021/...-wife.html?m=1
Additional information including stuff about his wife Liz who was a force of nature. The kind of person who would come into a room, suck out all the oxygen and leave you wringing wet. I
Wow, are we related? Ditto, Bordens in the chute growing up.
Funny thing, a guy down the block drove for Twin Pines kept his truck in the driveway. His son and I ran around a lot, BUT.....there was some serious drag out knock down fights about Bordens vs Twin Pines.
I knew someone who grew up down the street from Milky and apparently Milky had a temper and a drinking problem; according to my friend it didn't go well for wife and kids, but I'm not sure which of the 4 Milky's; whichever one was in Beverly Hills or Birmingham.
Last edited by jcole; January-24-25 at 05:38 PM.
From a 1964 Freep article:
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They moved about the time I started jr high into Detroit in an older house, large lot and huge garage. I think, he had 2-3 trucks then, his name was like a signature on the side of this trucks.
Hope that worked for them, by that time milk truck routes were starting to go the way of the dinosaur.
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