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    Default Where was the Twin Pines Dairy located on Outer Drive in Detroit?

    Today I learned that it used to be employee owned and operated.

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    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.

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    On Outer Drive next to Holy Cross Hospital.

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by CassTechGrad View Post
    ...Bob Leslie, was also one of the guys who played Milky the Clown.
    Milky was one of the clowns in my nightmares.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cincinnati_Kid View Post
    On Outer Drive next to Holy Cross Hospital.
    Thanks. My parents probably drove past it a thousand times when I was little. IIRC our neighbor across the street drove a local Twin Pines route.
    Last edited by Henry Whalley; January-16-25 at 01:54 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Wesson View Post
    Wow…flashback
    I remember it being on the curve where outer drive and conner went their separate way.
    I remember taking that route in the opposite direction to the football field at De La Salle High School or the Big Boy on Gratiot at Conner.

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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.

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    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 _ _ _ _!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by jcole View Post
    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.
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CassTechGrad View Post
    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,
    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.

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    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by CassTechGrad View Post
    ...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.
    In the good old days before Santa Claus was a molester.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jcole View Post
    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.
    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.

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    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.
    Quote Originally Posted by Henry Whalley View Post
    In the good old days before Santa Claus was a molester.
    Last edited by jcole; January-24-25 at 05:38 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikefmich View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikefmich View Post
    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.
    Twin Pines was worker owned. I believe the drivers had to buy their routes. Maybe they owned their truck as well?

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    From a 1964 Freep article:

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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeM View Post
    Twin Pines was worker owned. I believe the drivers had to buy their routes. Maybe they owned their truck as well?
    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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