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  • Territory of Hawaii milk token?

    What's the story behind this odd item? http://www.ebay.com/itm/exo-Territor...torefresh=true
    https://www.facebook.com/Bobby-Ingan...5875444640256/

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    Re: T.H. milk token?

    I have no idea. Also no have no idea what T.H. stands for.

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    • #3
      Re: T.H. milk token?

      Originally posted by helen View Post
      I have no idea. Also no have no idea what T.H. stands for.
      Territory of Hawaii. I guess you had to be there.
      https://www.facebook.com/Bobby-Ingan...5875444640256/

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        Re: T.H. milk token?

        I was there, just that I was too young to remember it.

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          Re: T.H. milk token?

          Originally posted by Ron Whitfield View Post
          What's the story behind this odd item? http://www.ebay.com/itm/exo-Territor...torefresh=true
          http://www.thecoinguyhawaii.com/

          FROM THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY UNTIL THE MID 50'S MILK IN HAWAII WAS DELIVERED IN GLASS BOTTLES, THESE MILK TOKENS WERE LEFT IN THE EMPTIES FOR REDEMTION.
          Now run along and play, but don’t get into trouble.

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          • #6
            Re: T.H. milk token?

            Then how did actual $ get exchanged?
            How was milk delivered in Hawaii?
            In LA, our house was built in the '20s and had a hole in the backside wall the size of a gallon of bottled milk with a door on each side for delivery, and kept it cooler than left on the porch. We never used it but I remember it scared the hell out of me as a kid.
            https://www.facebook.com/Bobby-Ingan...5875444640256/

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            • #7
              Re: T.H. milk token?

              I don't recall seeing those tokens probably before my time. The milk was delivered in the usual manner by truck and was left at the door. The empties were also left near the door and the milkman would replace them with full bottles. In those days it was delivered early in the morning so it was usually outside the door when you woke up. We used to get Dairyman's milk. There was all kinds of "man" back then, milkman, rubbish man, garbage man, chlorox man, and vegetable man.

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              • #8
                Re: T.H. milk token?

                And policeman, fireman, mailman.
                Now run along and play, but don’t get into trouble.

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                • #9
                  Re: Territory of Hawaii milk token?

                  I do remember that milk was delivered to my parents' home in bottles and it was waiting in the morning. It was before the time I entered school. I don't remember the tokens, or how payment was made or when or why that method of milk distrubtion stopped.

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                    Re: T.H. milk token?

                    Originally posted by D'Alani View Post
                    I don't recall seeing those tokens probably before my time. The milk was delivered in the usual manner by truck and was left at the door. The empties were also left near the door and the milkman would replace them with full bottles. In those days it was delivered early in the morning so it was usually outside the door when you woke up. We used to get Dairyman's milk. There was all kinds of "man" back then, milkman, rubbish man, garbage man, chlorox man, and vegetable man.
                    I, also, do not recall seeing any of those tokens. Don't know how you'd get one, that's how good the delivery system was.

                    Living in Mayor Wright's in the '50s, it was not exceptional to wake up & see milk bottles sitting next to everyone's front door. It would be, now, I suppose.

                    BTW I also recall the manapua man, crying out "Manapua, pepeiau !!" . . . over and over . . . while walking with two steam trays at the end of a long wooden pole.
                    Born in Hawaii, too - Truss me

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