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06/04/2026 9:33 am
The 1950s still saw a lot of home delivery vehicles. I remember small trucks offering to sharpen your knives and lawn mower blades. As a kid, the ones that I looked forward to were the Divco dairy truck that delivered un-homogenized milk in the early morning. Before school I would get the bottles from the milk box and pour the cram off the top for my cereal. Another Divco was a bakery truck that I'd flag down for their fudge topped cup cakes. But the real summer treat was from the Chevy 3100 "Good Humor" truck. I would here the bells in the distance and shake my mother down for the 15 cents toget my favorite treat - the Toasted Almond bar. These two trucks were such an integral part of suburban life in the 1950s.
06/04/2026 9:45 am
Like Pavlov's dogs; as soon as we heard those bells coming from the next corner, we'd start running for the ice cream man. And milk in the glass bottles. We must have been rich, cause we had a cooler box on the step where the milkman left them. And Mom's sour cream and cottage cheese,
06/04/2026 10:09 am
Good memories for sure. I have a few friends who collect Divco vans because of childhood nostalgia.
06/04/2026 10:24 am
Thanks for the memories. I especially remember the Good Humor trucks.
Ed Davis
Inverness, Illinois, USA
06/04/2026 11:39 am
@perrone1 Yep, I remember them well. We also had the box on our front porch. Great as always Rich. 💯👍
06/04/2026 11:39 am
All great picks and photos Rich, I have them all and love them. Another phenomenal model that I own that gives me the same sense of nostalgia is the 1952 Chevrolet wrecker in its Texaco livery. I’m afraid to try out the intricate and delicate towing mechanism on a 26 year old model but it looks amazing!
This post was modified 4 weeks ago by kevins
06/04/2026 11:51 am
@perrone1 We had a metal box and the milkman would put a sliver of ice in the box along with the milk, etc.
06/04/2026 1:15 pm
I remember those days as well. We had the box on the porch and the wonderful Good Humor Truck.
06/04/2026 1:24 pm
Thank you for that bit of nostalgia, Rich. My maternal grandfather was a Borden's home delivery driver for a time. We didn't have the luxury of home delivery in the mountains, so there were no Good Humor trucks for us.
06/04/2026 1:29 pm
Lest we never forget those wonderful days when the World was ours. Those hot, sweaty July afternoons playing ball on a dirt lot where new homes were being built and then you’d hear the Ice cream truck a few blocks away and trip over your feet running home for some coin. Or collecting the pop bottles the builders left behind so you could go to the dairy and get a real fudgesicle or creamsicle as opposed to all the garbage now. Oh, Summers of ‘63-66 will never be forgotten.
Steve
Topic starter
06/04/2026 2:26 pm
We didn't have the luxury of home delivery in the mountains
Yeah. This was more a phenomenon of 1950s suburbia.
06/04/2026 6:46 pm
Besides the milk man and the bread man delivering at our house, we also had the Charles potato chip man bringing us chips in a can.
06/04/2026 7:03 pm
great pics as always Rich. While living/growing up in Australia I have related memories to those of you in the U.S. I have both models because I just love early small to medium commercial vehicles, especially if they are 'loaded' with graphics. There's a very rare 1/24 Heller Bordens 1920s Citroen around and some years back there was a 1/24 diecast dairy vehicle. I think it was the only model the company produced, and from memory it was advertised on the old JSS Software website?
This post was modified 4 weeks ago by Geoff Jowett
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06/04/2026 8:33 pm
@geoff-jowett I haven’t thought of Charles Chips in a long time but now that it’s been brought up it brought back some fond memories. I can remember excitement of the box truck pulling up with a bag of fresh chips and the driver refilling our can that Mom wiped out. I grew up in a rural area and my wife’s citified memory of ‘Charles’ is a little different than mine. They would leave their can on the porch on the designated day along with an envelope, and their yellow can would be replaced with a new one.
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