The Seltzerman is out of action, and Brooklyn thirsts.

[elleng]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/nyregion/26seltzer.html?em

[grasswire]

1. cities are worlds unto themselves, aren't they?

This whole old culture exists in NYC and probably nowhere else in America. Seltzer deliveries? Say what? This was interesting. Thanks for posting it.

[eleny]

2. We used to get soda and a bottle of seltzer delivered when I was little

White Rock sodas and a squirt bottle or two of seltzer. I grew up in Queens.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. I remember those-- we got cases of White Rock and the...

heavy seltzer bottles in the steel cage.

I grew up in Queens, too. Krug's and Dugan's bakeries, Renken milk bottles that sometimes freeze in the winter, the nameless butter&egg man, the knife sharpener, Artie the ice cream man...

A time long past.

[elleng]

4. Thanks for the smiles you've encouraged!

Dad talks about the knife sharpener, and he and his brothers chasing the ice man. Grandpa owned a deli, and they lived above it, in upper Manhattan.

[eleny]

5. My uncle was an egg man

After he gave that up he delivered Lithuanian bread and babka to the local stores. But he delivered eggs to private homes in the very early 1950s. They were Jersey eggs.

I grew up in Woodhaven, btw, right near Franklin K Lane high.