Description
Vintage Weissglass Dairy Galvanized Milk Porch Tin Cooler - 1940's - Staten Island NY
This item was used until the 1960's, when the milkman stopped coming and delivering delicious, fresh milk. I believe it dates back to the 1940's. and was used for over 20 years. We have not done anything at all to it, so you are getting it exactly as it last looked when last used in the 1960's. The imprints of where the glass bottles stood inside are still visible. The red paint is still visible on the lettering for "Weissglass Milk."
Dimensions: Approximately 10-1/4" tall, 7-3/4" across the front and 8-1/2" front to back. The top still opens and closes perfectly.
This galvanized milk tin has been in Staten Island NY its entire life. When we ship it to you, it will be the first time it has left Staten Island (if you live somewhere other than Staten Island, that is). Own a piece of Staten Island's Rich History!
This item only ships free within the USA.
A little bit of history about the photos above and the Weissglass Dairy in Staten Island NY.
Milk delivery wagon, designed to be pulled by horses. Wagon has four
wheels (smaller in front and larger in back) and a paneled enclosed body
with a door on each side, painted white with inscriptions painted in
blue with yellow, red, and gray accents; on front: "WEISSGLASS / MILK";
on side: "J. WEISSGLASS / & / SONS / DAIRY / EST. 1899 / Tel. Conn
442-6600 / GRADE A / MILK / CREAM / BUTTER / EGGS".
Julius Weissglass (1873-1946) immigrated to New York from Austria in the
late 1880s. By 1899 he purchased a farm on Watchogue Road, Staten
Island, selling milk and eggs. The business grew under the management of
his sons, with a large milk processing and bottling plant established
in Mariners Harbor in the 1930s.
In addition to their significant
role in Staten Island's business community, members of the Weissglass
family have served a variety of groups and organizations, including the
Jewish Community Center and the Staten Island Foundation. The name is
also remembered by racing enthusiasts and sports fans for the Weissglass
Speedway and stadium which was located in Port Richmond from the 1950s
to the 1970s.
This vehicle, which is part of the exhibition "Made
On Staten Island" at Historic Richmond Town, was repainted for use in
parades in the twentieth century, which accounts for the numerical
seven-digit phone number which appears in the inscriptions that are
hand-lettered on the wagon's body.
