Milk Monday *25

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#1 written by Dashiell
about 1 year ago

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Looks like a picture right out from the 60′s or 70′s. Everybody is so damned clean-cut.
- #2 written by kevin
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  Lol, maybe even the 50′s & 60′s…
#3 written by It's Only Me From Across The Sea
about 1 year ago

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My god, the hair! All those partings cut with a hatchet!
- #4 written by Big Bazoo
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  It was just a style during that period, maybe reflecting the politics of the era. I am sure that in 40 years people will look back on all this fussy emo style and think its disgusting. Actually, the only hair type that I like is that kind of “enfant sauvage” look that you see on the boys in the tribes of the Amazon or Borneo. I find that gorgeous. Especially when they’re all walking around naked too.
#5 written by Zig
about 1 year ago

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60′s I think.
In a year or two the 4 Mop Tops would destroy the parting and Brylcreem for ever, or at least until Punk replaced it with hair gel.
I can almost smell the school dinners – *shudders*
#6 written by stevie
about 1 year ago

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@Dashiell and Zig

As a child of the sixties I’m pretty sure that picture was from the fifties.

And Zig, we used to have what they called the “A Lunch” in New York schools of the period.
- #7 written by Zig
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  Is it a US scene?
  I don’t recognise the milk packaging.
  
  If those shirts – especially the stripey ones at the table behind – were in the UK then I’d say early 60′s rather than 50′s.
  I had a shirt like the guy at the back with his hand to his face, around that time, but maybe I was behind the times.
  
  The 50′s lingered on in the UK until 1963.
- #8 written by Big Bazoo
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  You’re right. That top of opening for the milk container was used during the late 1940s and 1950s. And the kids are good looking and healthy, not like so many of the today’s obese porkers who do nothing but sit on their fat asses.
- #9 written by kevin
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  lmfao, well put stevie :-)
#10 written by PenboyX2
about 1 year ago

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I would say from the late-50s through the mid-60s (1967 at the latest). :-)

Either of the two in the foreground could easily have been me! :-)
#11 written by Bruce Tharp
about 1 year ago

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I would say early 50′s and pre-Elvis through 1962 based on hair style and clothes.
- #12 written by Dewboy
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  more likely 60′s, since in the 50′s and prior, they would have been drinking out of a glass container rather than the cardboard/wax seen here.
  - #13 written by Big Bazoo
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    That’s not correct. This kind of container was introduced in the late 1940s and continued throughout the 1950s.
    - #14 written by Bruce Tharp
      about 1 year ago
      
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      Yes and the milk was never cold after sitting by the radiator for an hour or so in those small wooden hand crates.
      - #15 written by Big Bazoo
        about 1 year ago
        
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        Actually, my favorite milk is direct from the cow when visiting friends on farms. Body temperature. Rich, wholesome, unhomogenized, unpasteurized (the cows are regularly checked for diseases), and from brown cows, like Guernsey or Jersey. WOW! Now that’s milk. Better yet when a nice farm boy is showing you around the barn and offers you a taste. Yum! It’s a meal in itself.
        
        #16 written by Bruce Tharp
        about 1 year ago
        
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        That was the best and remains the only milk I care to drink.
        
        #17 written by PenboyX2
        about 1 year ago
        
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        Then you’re going to be milk starved for the rest of your life. You can’t get (“pure”/whole) milk today that isn’t homogenized, pasteurized and whatever else they do to it UNLESS you are LUCKY enough to live on a small farm/ranch that has their own milk cows “for personal use.”
        
        #18 written by PenboyX2
        about 1 year ago
        
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        Bazoo:
        
        I disagree with only one point: “Body temperature” [and I'm assuming you mean the cow's body :-) ].
        
        MY favorite milk is similar: Rich, wholesome, unhomogenized, unpasteurized (the cows are regularly checked for diseases). But, Jersey’s are black & white if I remember.
        
        But, we put all that fresh whole milk into a cooler that has a fine strainer (for the obvious) and allowed to stay overnight (at least) getting just cold enough to form very thin and tiny ice crystals in the cream at the top of the milk. Then drink a glass or two of that fresh, ice-cold milk. It did my body real good! (I think that just might be the best part of Texas when I lived there!)
        
        #19 written by Dino Flagellates
        about 1 year ago
        
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        First you say you can’t get what is called “raw” milk and then you say yes you can, but it must be strained and chilled.
        
        The laws governing the sale of milk in the USA are written and enforced by the individual states. Maybe you live in a state where the government tells you exactly what what can do “for your own protection”. Many places are like that, near lunatic asylums. Maybe most!
        
        I buy, and legally so, “raw” whole milk which is unhomogenized, and unpasteurized from brown cows and if I am there at milking time, fresh from the cow, unstrained and uncooled. Otherwise it goes into a large stainless steel vat which has paddles turning in it to keep the cream from separating from the milk and it is then chilled. I even get ice cream made with only pure “raw” cream from these same cows with no added flavors unless the farmer has flavored it with his own organic fresh strawberries, blueberries or peaches.
        
        When the farmer’s son is there with me in the barn, I am in heaven. He even taught me how to have a young calf suck you off. You have to hold two of your fingers in the side of the calf’s mouth since even though their teeth have yet to grow in, their jaws are powerful.
        
        #20 written by Big Bazoo
        about 1 year ago
        
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        PenboyX2 is all fucked up on milk and cows. He even thinks Jersey cows are black and white. OMG!
        
        #21 written by PenboyX2
        about 1 year ago
        
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        Baboo:
        I did make a mistake about Jerseys …. I was going by some “memory” …. and I should have said Holsteins that are black & white. Sorry …. it’s been so many years since I was in Texas and in the FFA.
        
        Hey, I made a mistake …. no reason to call me “fucked up.” The color of cows isn’t high on my list of things to remember all the time.
        
        #22 written by PenboyX2
        about 1 year ago
        
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        “First you say you can’t get what is called “raw” milk …”
        
        Yes, I think you’re correct about the “raw” milk — it’s just not in 95% of the markets. After you described it, I remember I have seen “raw” milk. Sorry about that. But I think State law prescribes even “raw” milk to have been either heated or otherwise “prepared” for public groceries/stores.
        
        “… and then you say yes you can, but it must be strained and chilled.”
        
        What I described was not in any [general] public market (and in that time, I doubt it would have been either except for very small neighborhood/rural markets). This was when I was a teen living on a ranch and we had our own milk cows — as well as our own pigs for bacon and ham, and our own steers for our beef that we ate.
        
        #23 written by The Word
        about 1 year ago
        
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        Didn’t they teach you about Jesus there on the farm? You are really lacking on that count. And with all your blasphemy you should be ashamed of yourself. You are anathema to all good Christians who come to this site.
        
        #24 written by Bruce Tharp
        about 1 year ago
        
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        Damn that brings back some memories.
        
        #25 written by Dewboy
        about 1 year ago
        
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        @ Big Bazoo – “Rich, wholesome, unhomogenized, unpasteurized …, and from brown cows”
        sooooo, does that mean brown cows give chocolate milk?
#26 written by stevie
about 1 year ago

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Further research suggests maybe around 1960. Take a look at the haircuts and styles in this 1960 film clip. Also, watch and learn. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s7X5-Drctk
#27 written by stevie
about 1 year ago

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Okay. Easily could be the early sixties. Take a look at young Jimmy Barnes, and his doo, from 1961.

http://www.archive.org/details/boys_beware
#28 written by misnbluq
about 1 year ago

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Talk about conformist of the day. You think we’re trying to be free now? Just look how EVERYONE conformed to the so called norm of the day where Leave it Beaver epitomized what mainstream America was supposed to be.
Thank goodness that we’re a bit freer to be ourselves while the mainstream still tries to make us conform in what they call the norm.
Great picture and I remember those days too albeit from the mid 60′s to the late 70′s.
- #29 written by horselips
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  Don’t kid yourself – these boys are a LOT freer than the boys of today – they were comfortable naked around each other, they had no political correctness to conform to, and there were no agenda-driven teachers and activists trying to expose and mainstream their delicious private secrets. If not genuinely freer, at least they (‘we’ in some cases here) enjoyed a different kind of independence. We could even play outdoors, wander at will, without fear, around our cities, and even bike to neighboring towns. We built tree forts and huts, we wrestled and fought, played with guns, skinny dipped, camped out, and generally had a pretty damn good time.
  - #30 written by PenboyX2
    about 1 year ago
    
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    You just gave a great memorable snapshot of that time period!
    - #31 written by Bruce Tharp
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      Yes he certainy did. Those really were THE HAPPY DAYS. Way to go horselips.
      - #32 written by Big Bazoo
        about 1 year ago
        
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        Bruce, I thought you said elsewhere that you had a horrible childhood. Miserable in every way imaginable. Trying to “cure” yourself of “improper” urges. Still suffering today as a result with little or no sex. Or was that someone else?
        
        #33 written by Bruce Tharp
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        Yes that was me. I think that is why I enjoy this blog so much. It’s kind of a way to go back and fill in the gaps. But I did manage to steal a few moments of fun in spite of the guilt and fear and religious motivated physical abuse. Comments like the ones here bring back some of the good times.
  - #34 written by Big Bazoo
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    You are ABSOLUTELY CORRECT horselips!
    I grew up during this exact same period and we swam naked even at the Y and boys club where we would size up each others apparatus and then make it with each other, sometimes in groups called “circle jerks”, and at least in my own experience, we did it regularly… every day if we could find a quiet attic, cellar, garage or tool shed at one of our houses. We had no labels for this. It was just “fooling around”. We knew we had to keep it a secret from our parents, but there really wasn’t any guilt about doing it. It felt so damn good, how could anything that felt that good be bad for you? And we started when we were young. In my neighborhood the boys were between 8 and 15 usually. And anyway, there were always new participants eager to join in sometimes even an older guy someone would find to join in.
  - #35 written by kevin
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    you know, i agree about the freer part to a point. we were free to be with other boys and fools around even, but you had to steer away from the awful labels of QUEER BOY and then HOMO. i lived in a California town that (at the time, yes in 1950-1960′s) grew wheat and raised cattle prior to the onset of growing grapes and making wine. you DIDN’T DARE let yourself get branded w/ either of those two former aforementioned labels, and so were not free to grow out of the era with any freedom to be yourself, so to speak. Coupled with the homophobic religious views of that time, and I’d say that “freedom” to be yourself back then was indeed a relative term, lol, so to speak…
    - #36 written by Bruce Tharp
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      Kevin, you were there. Possibly you lived around the Central Valley and maybe even in the Okie/Arkie, white trash, God fearing communities known as Ceres or Keys or Oakdale. “Homophobic religious views” of that time and that place were like no other. It was common for parents to whip their kids bare buts until they bleed if they were caught masterbating by suspicious parents laying in waiting. And then to be hosed down with cold water in the back yard with your bloody ass stinging with pain. And all of this advocated by the local churches who actually preached that only queers masterbated and masterbation would turn you into a queer. And yet we took our chances and stole a few moments of fun.
      
      “So you were not free to grow out of that era with any freedom to be yourself back then was a relative term, lol, so to speak…” Some of us made it out but you constantly have to work at it.
#37 written by Dewboy
about 1 year ago

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the boy in the foreground looks EXACTLY like Gerald my first boy crush I had in the 6th grade.
And I didn’t even know what I was feeling, only that I couldn’t take my eyes off him all day…
I have decided to name this boy in the picture here as Gerald.
Everyone notice that Gerald got TWO milks…
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  I think I could find a pun there somewhere but I can’t quite pull it out. sboy crush, I remember that. I was in the second grade. He was aslso blonde and Swede.
  
  BTW Dewboy, good to have you and a few others on this page. I was getting attacked by trolls.
  - #39 written by Lothar
    about 1 year ago
    
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    @Bruce
    You were being attacked by trolls? I’ve really never noticed trolls here. Are you sure you are not confusing trolls with people who disagree with you or who are using satire?
    
    Sometimes the religion discussions get pretty hot here, but that is just people expressing feelings about which they feel strongly. You should expect sometimes to see strong statements, but that does not mean they are trolls.
    - #40 written by nikki
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      A “troll” is a character from the Norwegian mythology.
  - #41 written by Dewboy
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    LOL! no, not really!!
    aww, thanks!!
#42 written by Prolificphoto
about 1 year ago

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@PenboyX2, I have a few of that period and they definitely were “Happy Days” as Bruce calls them!
#43 written by Grindelwald
about 1 year ago

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I don’t know why, but this photo dislike me so much
- #44 written by Big Bazoo
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  Are you a troll? Bruce has warned us about people like you.
  - #45 written by Grindelwald
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    I,m not a troll, it’s just this photo, somehow, dislike me. I don’t Know why, just it is
#46 written by Prolificphoto
about 1 year ago

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Actually when I mentioned “…I have a few of that period…” I was speaking of personal photos taken of “me” during 1958, 59, and of course some favorites at Camp Lincoln for Boys – (from 60 to 63)….
#47 written by Paul in CCT
about 1 year ago

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I remember those days, 50s and early 60s. There were a variety of potions used to plaster hair down. I think I used a product that was like styling gel only stiffer. I had (and still do have) a cowlick that defies gravity.

I also remember those milk cartons: cardboard with wax coating. Flecks of wax would come off the sides and get sucked up into the straw. In my school the milk always ended up close to room temperature, not very tasty.

Fifty years from now people will be laughing at today’s hair styles and our eating habits.
#48 written by Robbie
about 1 year ago

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In the early 1960′s a company patented the “tent” fold on the top of a milk carton and other cartons holding liquids that we still see used almost universally today. It’s officially known as a “gable top” carton. For many years other companies could only use that classic fold under license from that comapny.
These milk cartons pre-date the use of that classic fold. So I’d say this is probably circa late 1950′s.
#49 written by Dewboy
about 1 year ago

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if you enlarge the pic, you can see a date of 1963 on the milk cartons.
- #50 written by Markus
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  Dewboy
  
  I don’t know how you managed to enlarge this particular picture, unless you know of it from elsewhere on the web, but I must agree with everyone here; my guess is right about 1960, give or take, judging from all of my memories of the time – the hair styles (damn, I hated Brylcreem!), the shirts (eww!), and those milk cartons gave me a flashback that I don’t think I’ve ever had since those days. I distinctly remember them, because:
  
  I was “Milkboy!”
  
  That’s right, milkboy. Every day, halfway between start of school in the morning and lunchtime, I had been selected, because of my good grades, to go to the cafeteria, pick up a list that changed from week to week depending on who paid “milk money” the previous Friday, and count out cartons of milk that I then delivered to the classrooms for morning milk break. And they were those very cartons pictured here! I distinctly remember those type of pull up tops. This is the first time I have seen them since. Date: 1963, 3rd grade!
  
  Who says I don’t have anything in common with this website? Now everyone knows my affinity to it, and why it’s my favorite website!

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