Monthly Archives: July 2018


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Do you remember the days of Rockwellian Americana as portrayed in It’s a Wonderful Life, Leave it to Beaver, and Father Knows Best, when milk was  delivered directly to consumers’ homes?  Customers would place their order with the milkman (it was almost always a “he”), and it would be delivered the next day […]

The Milkman Cometh No More


We met at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Twenty-and-Over Club on Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, on May 2, 1959 (one day after Tony’s 27th birthday)). The date I expected never showed up, so I went to the weekly dance with a girlfriend. When I got off the bus, I asked a […]

True Love