Back in the days of milkmen and home dairy delivery, milk bottles came with caps that had the date and often the phone number of the local dairy. They are some of the cheapest vintage collectibles out there. I like them primarily for the large varieties of types of phone numbers on these. Here are the ones from my collection. I looked up each town to see if any MLB players were born there, and were able to match a few caps to cards. It's cool to think that the player may have actually drank milk from these dairies in their younger days.
Paso Robles Creamery in Paso Robles, CA. Phone 234
Hietpas Dairy in Appleton, Wisconsin. Phone 4-2283. Another Appleton native, Joe Hietpas, played for the Mets in 2004. I wonder if he is related to the family that owned the dairy? Unfortunately I don't have any of his cards.
Cedar Heights Farm in Cedar Rapids, IA. Phone 2-7365.
Pecora's in Hazleton, PA. Phone GL5-4953
Jenkins Dairy in Gastonia, NC. Phone 4-2307
Great Neck Dairy in Waterford, CT. Phone 8323. This is the only cap that didn't come from my Don & Chris order - this came in a trade with Scott Crawford/I Need New Hobbies a while back.
Tech Food Products in Pittsburgh, PA. Phone 2-1177 One of my oldest cards is of a Pittsburgh native playing for the Pirates, a 1954 Bob Purkey.
These are the other milk caps in my collection. Small towns which did not produce any MLB players (at least, not for whom I have cards).
The dairies represented are:
Baker & Son Dairy - Atlanta, MI - Phone I-F-31
Clifford Colby - Bucksport, ME - Phone 144-14
Collins Dairy - Hammonton, NJ - Phone 1180
Fairview Dairy - Fairview, KS - Phone 67-F-13
Horst Dairy - Bennington, VT - Phone 6462
Land O'Lakes - Roseau, MN - Phone 23W
McMaster Bros - Saranac Lake, NY - Phone 33 J-1
Pine Grove Dairy - Skaneateles, NY - Phone 464
N.F. & J.C. Schoppee - Machias, ME - Phone 206-2
Wayside Farm Dairy - Drums, PA - Phone SU8-3723
I'd probably be willing to trade some of these for cards or other interesting things, if these have local or other interest for anyone.
i think my pops said he used to collect these when he was a kid. they're cool... but it would have been cooler if he collected baseball cards ;)
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