The Old Dairy...and others t In our last issue we asked for information on dairies in Pacific Grove. Our readers, and those of Professor Toro, responded with a lotof information, some of which is presented here. Among those who helped were Irene Grant Hirschy, Philoma Goldsworthy, Mrs. Lawrence Lyon, Mrs. Marie Lopez and Bruce Kendall. Additional information was also found in "A Pincy Paradise". The old Dairy was built in 1887 by David Jacks. It was a huge rambling affair with many sheds, many cows, and consequently much mooing. It was located between the present site of El Carmelo Cemetery and the Pacific Grove Depot. Many adjacent acres were covered with a dense growth of wild lilacs, which in Lhe carly spring months scented the atmos- phere with their bloom. David Jacks rented the dairy to William Bodfish to operate. Mr. Bodfish hired Tom Workasa delivery boy who ladledoutmilkinto thecustomer's own containers. It was Tom's first job on his way to becoming a multi- millionaire. In 1897, David Jacks sold the dairy to Warner Dodge. It was still the only dairy in the Retreat and furnished milk to the entire Com- munity. The Dodge Brothers, Warner and Bert. had specially built milk wagons with the floor parlitioned into cubby holes to support the cans as they traveled over the unpaved roads of lhe Grove. They did their milk- ing around two o'clock in the afternoon. Then they poured the milk into five-gallon cans and set them in the horse trough (carefully keeping out the frogs) to cool until four o'clock. At that time, they started out on their route. Various receptacles, pitchers, bowls, tin pans, and th6 like,contain- ing coins or tickets for the milk, awaited them to be filled on Retreat por- ches. Mr. Milton Little bought the dairy in the early 1900s and he also grew vegetables on approximately ten acres of adjoining land. Mr. Little had the dairy until around 1920 when he sold it to O. S. Ziegler, who in the mid '20s moved the operation to 864 Congress where it is listed in 1928. Bruce Kendall told us about Christiansen's Grove Creamery at 162 Foun- tain in 1946. He also mentioned the PineRidge Jersey Dairyat857 Maple run by W.W. Stopp in 1940 thru 1944 followed by the Pine Ridge Dairy on David Avenue in 1945 thru 1947. Mrs. Hirschy mentioned that her husband was a driver for the Del Monte Dairy at Irving and Foam in New Monterey during the early '30s. When the Del Monte Dairy started as a botUing plant in 1907, it got the milk from a cattle farm (the Old Dairy?) in Pacific Grove. The Del Monte Dairy was taken overby Mission Dairies in the '40s. Mrs. Marie Lopez, whose husband was a driver for the Eureka Dairy, remembers delivering milk for her Grandfather Nunes as a child in 1922 in Pacific Grove. Mr. Nuncs kept two Jersey cows across lhe street from his housc at 517 12,h Street (corner or Junipern) and had twelvd local cus- tomers. Mrs. Lopez would carry six quarls at a time in a special shoulder strap as she delivered. , OCR Text: The Old Dairy...and others t In our last issue we asked for information on dairies in Pacific Grove. Our readers, and those of Professor Toro, responded with a lotof information, some of which is presented here. Among those who helped were Irene Grant Hirschy, Philoma Goldsworthy, Mrs. Lawrence Lyon, Mrs. Marie Lopez and Bruce Kendall. Additional information was also found in "A Pincy Paradise". The old Dairy was built in 1887 by David Jacks. It was a huge rambling affair with many sheds, many cows, and consequently much mooing. It was located between the present site of El Carmelo Cemetery and the Pacific Grove Depot. Many adjacent acres were covered with a dense growth of wild lilacs, which in Lhe carly spring months scented the atmos- phere with their bloom. David Jacks rented the dairy to William Bodfish to operate. Mr. Bodfish hired Tom Workasa delivery boy who ladledoutmilkinto thecustomer's own containers. It was Tom's first job on his way to becoming a multi- millionaire. In 1897, David Jacks sold the dairy to Warner Dodge. It was still the only dairy in the Retreat and furnished milk to the entire Com- munity. The Dodge Brothers, Warner and Bert. had specially built milk wagons with the floor parlitioned into cubby holes to support the cans as they traveled over the unpaved roads of lhe Grove. They did their milk- ing around two o'clock in the afternoon. Then they poured the milk into five-gallon cans and set them in the horse trough (carefully keeping out the frogs) to cool until four o'clock. At that time, they started out on their route. Various receptacles, pitchers, bowls, tin pans, and th6 like,contain- ing coins or tickets for the milk, awaited them to be filled on Retreat por- ches. Mr. Milton Little bought the dairy in the early 1900s and he also grew vegetables on approximately ten acres of adjoining land. Mr. Little had the dairy until around 1920 when he sold it to O. S. Ziegler, who in the mid '20s moved the operation to 864 Congress where it is listed in 1928. Bruce Kendall told us about Christiansen's Grove Creamery at 162 Foun- tain in 1946. He also mentioned the PineRidge Jersey Dairyat857 Maple run by W.W. Stopp in 1940 thru 1944 followed by the Pine Ridge Dairy on David Avenue in 1945 thru 1947. Mrs. Hirschy mentioned that her husband was a driver for the Del Monte Dairy at Irving and Foam in New Monterey during the early '30s. When the Del Monte Dairy started as a botUing plant in 1907, it got the milk from a cattle farm (the Old Dairy?) in Pacific Grove. The Del Monte Dairy was taken overby Mission Dairies in the '40s. Mrs. Marie Lopez, whose husband was a driver for the Eureka Dairy, remembers delivering milk for her Grandfather Nunes as a child in 1922 in Pacific Grove. Mr. Nuncs kept two Jersey cows across lhe street from his housc at 517 12,h Street (corner or Junipern) and had twelvd local cus- tomers. Mrs. Lopez would carry six quarls at a time in a special shoulder strap as she delivered. , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Historic Properties of Pacific Grove,Maple,850 Maple,MAPLE ST_011.pdf,MAPLE ST_011.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: MAPLE ST_011.PDF, MAPLE ST_011.pdf 1 Page 1