Special Delivery

[hummingwolf]

A conversation about tea and coffee this evening brought back memories of having tea delivered to the house when I was a child. Since tea delivery is something nobody else in the chat remembers, I'll ask you: Does anybody else out there remember Jewel Tea? While we're at it, did you get big cans of potato chips and other snacks & stuff from Charles Chips?

On Sunday mornings before church in the early '70s, when other boys were delivering newspapers, my brother had a bagel route. As far as I know, he never threw anybody's bagels in the bushes.

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[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

don't remember tea to the door, but we did have the Borden man come around with milk deliveries. he was so at home, was John, that he'd just come right into the neighborhood houses and put the milk in the fridges, chatting up the ladies. that would be unthinkable now!

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Oh, our Jewel Tea man used to sit at the kitchen table for hours (or it seems that way in retrospect) talking to my mother and trying to convince me to convince her to buy more stuff. :-)