Yooperindetroit Member Username: Yooperindetroit
Post Number: 1 Registered: 05-2007
| Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2007 - 10:53 am: | |
My grandfather during the early 1940's worked for the Detroit Creamery at the Eblung or Ebling facility. Hi job was to hitch horses to the milkwagons. He lived on Hecla Street during this time, which is near WSU. Does anyone know where the physical location of the plant was? He said he walked to work, so I am not sure if it was on West Grand Boulevard or somewhere in that area. |
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 2128 Registered: 06-2004
| Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2007 - 11:08 am: | |
Not sure if this is the same dairy (might've been Farm Maid?), but my dad used to have to pick up product at one on Woodward across the street from Kresge's |
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 5320 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2007 - 11:32 am: | |
We were served by Detroit Creamery horse and buggy deliveries in our milk chute on Northlawn and Schoolcraft. Sometimes, the milk was frozen. jjaba, Proudly Westside in the 1940s. |
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker
Post Number: 1802 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2007 - 12:09 pm: | |
There was one at W. Adams and Grand River on the southeast corner. I think there were other locations around Detroit that I remember seeing in old maps, but don't recall their locations right now. |
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker
Post Number: 1804 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2007 - 5:20 pm: | |
Milkwagon from one of the Detroit creameries, on 73(?) Bagley. |
Gtat44 Member Username: Gtat44
Post Number: 137 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 5:22 am: | |
If he walked to work it's possible he worked at the one on Sterling St. A guy I used to work with said he worked there as a kid. He lived on Trumbull. If you were to go there from WSU, you would take Trumbull towards W. Grand to the light at Holden make a left. Trumbull curves after going under the RR tracks and turns into Lincoln. After making your left go to the stop sign and make another left. There is a big building that looks like an old bank on the corner. The 2nd or 3rd building on your right is it. Where the steps are is where I was told the horses used to come out of. This was 4 years ago hopefully the building is still there. Maybe Bullet can get you a photo a lot of his shots are close to there. |
Mikem Member Username: Mikem
Post Number: 3287 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 11:19 am: | |
Detroit Creamery & Ebling Creamery, 1946:
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Tarkus Member Username: Tarkus
Post Number: 324 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 11:26 am: | |
My uncle had the last horse drawn milk delivery in the city. He worked for Sealtest, out of the St. Jean depot. |
Yooperindetroit Member Username: Yooperindetroit
Post Number: 2 Registered: 05-2007
| Posted on Friday, May 18, 2007 - 9:53 am: | |
Thanks for the info...I spoke to him and the Sterling Street plant rang a bell. He lived in Detroit in the winter of 43 and entered the service in 1944, so he was not in the city that long. I appreciate the assistance and I will have to drive down there and see if the building still stands. |
Detrola Member Username: Detrola
Post Number: 46 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Friday, May 18, 2007 - 8:24 pm: | |
Yooperindetroit, My grandfather held the same position at Wayne Creamery in SW Detroit. I've seen many old milk bottles at antique shops along US12. There was one shop across from MIS in Brooklyn that had several dozen bottles from detroit companies. I do not remember if there were any from Detroit Creamery. But then again I was not looking for one. I am still searching for one from Wayne Creamery. If anybody has seen one let me know. |
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 5329 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Friday, May 18, 2007 - 11:23 pm: | |
Yorgassen and his trusty horse Swede delivered to us on Northlawn Ave. on the Westside. The cream rose to the top in the milk chute and froze up pretty good in winter. jjaba. |
Boshna Member Username: Boshna
Post Number: 175 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 12:34 am: | |
Boshna seeks a creamery that would service an EEV home. Any recommendations? |
Mikem Member Username: Mikem
Post Number: 3315 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 1:45 pm: | |
Although my advertisement posted above doesn't list it, it appears that Ebling's main office was at 1490 Holden, near the corner of Sterling Street; the building with the light-colored roof:
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Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 5331 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 6:30 pm: | |
MikeM, where's the stables? I wanna see where Swede lived. She was only a stableman's daughter and all the horsemen knew her! Merci, jjaba. |
Jams Member Username: Jams
Post Number: 5041 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 6:42 pm: | |
Detrola, It took me over a year of searching before I found one on ebay. |
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 2201 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 6:54 pm: | |
quote:Detrola, It took me over a year of searching before I found one on ebay. Never give up. I was jokingly discussing finding buried treasure with a contractor and he told a story of uncovering a massive cache of ancient bottles on one of his jobs. Miracles do happen. |
Hudsonut1 Member Username: Hudsonut1
Post Number: 9 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Friday, May 25, 2007 - 11:24 pm: | |
Was there a Twin Pines Dairy? I seem to recall that from my Wayne days, up to 1955. I have been trying to find a bottle from them. |
Homer Member Username: Homer
Post Number: 177 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Friday, May 25, 2007 - 11:33 pm: | |
Sure Twin Pines was TV's Milky the Clown's Sponsor |
Little_buddy Member Username: Little_buddy
Post Number: 12 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Sunday, May 27, 2007 - 2:56 pm: | |
The milkman who delivered to our house in Dearborn was nicknamed "Peaches". Used to throw us kids big chucks of ice. Seemed like the greatest thing on a hot summer day. |
Sparty06 Member Username: Sparty06
Post Number: 166 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 5:29 am: | |
Detroit Creamery building will be turned into lofts. http://www.crainsdetroit.com/a rticle/20081215/FREE/812150275 |