From between the 1930s and 1950s, in the days when the borough’s housewives placed orders for milk and baked goods, and union drivers in uniform delivered them. The bakeries sent trucks door to door, offering the same middle-American fare that mid century children across the nation were raised on.

Mrs. Karl’s Bread Truck, ca. 1940s

Butter Nut Bread

 

Butter Nut Bread

 

Dugans Bread

 

Cassou’s Bread Truck, ca. 1950s

 

Mary Jane Bread Trucks, ca. 1950s

Sunbeam Bread Truck, ca. 1950s

 

Fischers Milk, ca. 1940s

 

Bond Bread Truck, ca. 1940s

 

Bricker’s Bread Truck, ca. 1940s

 

Bricker’s Bread Truck, ca. late 1920s-early 1930s

 

Webers Bread Truck

 

Stocks Bread Truck, 1935

 

Bricker’s Bread Truck

 

Bond Bread Truck, Deep Rock Gas Station

 

Dugan’s Bread Truck, Pelican Island, NJ, ca. mid 1930s

 

Pepperidge Farm Bread Truck

 

Pepperidge Farm Bread Trucks

 

Wards Tip Top Bread Truck, John Longwood, 1947

 

Welsh’s Bread Truck, Virginia City, Nevada, September 1958

 

J.J. Nissen Bread Truck, Holsum Bread, Portland, Maine, ca. 1950s

 

Paul’s Pie Truck, Metro Van, Ontiaro, Canada, ca. 1952

 

Bond Bread Truck, 1940 Ford, ca. 1940s

 

Taystee Bread Truck, Chevrolet Step Van, ca. 1959

 

Schaible’s Bakery Truck, Easton, PA, ca. late 1940s-early 1950s

 

Studebaker Bread Truck, Royer’s Bread, Denver, PA, ca. 1941

 

Ford Panel Van, Burry’s Cookies, ca 1940s

 

Chevrolet Panel Van, Bakery Truck, Juction City Bakery, Oregon, ca. 1935

 

Chevrolet Panel Van, Modern Cleaners, Teutopolis, ILL, ca. 1958

 

Ford Delivery Truck, Castleton Brands Food Products, ca. late 1940s

(Photos © Dave Gelinas)