[Vella Gonzaga]

1950s Mobile Greengrocer​

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Credits: Facebook/Australia Remember When

Remember when the local greengrocer drove through the streets with a truck full of fresh produce? Back then, most households didn’t have a car, so this service was a lifeline for many. All the mums eagerly awaited the truck’s arrival and gathered around to snag their fresh supply of fruit and veggies. Do you have fond memories of the greengrocer? Share your stories in the forum.

 

[Deb & Phill]

1950s Mobile Greengrocer

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Credits: Facebook/Australia Remember When

Remember when the local greengrocer drove through the streets with a truck full of fresh produce? Back then, most households didn’t have a car, so this service was a lifeline for many. All the mums eagerly awaited the truck’s arrival and gathered around to snag their fresh supply of fruit and veggies. Do you have fond memories of the greengrocer? Share your stories in the forum.

My father inlaw was the green greengrocer back when. One day when he was doing his delivery. The lady's where wondering why he kept checking the front sit of his truck. And found he was checking on a baby asleep on the sit. They were busy picking back on the
farm so he had to go with Dad. My now husband.

 

[Suzanne rose]

My grandfather was a greengrocer. I remember his grey Ute. He would knave home at 3am to go to Flemington markets ( now paddys)

I remember him arriving home in the afternoon and we would unload whatever was left which wouldn't be much.

He went to the markets every morning and his customers would receive fresh produce every day

 

[LizBa]

I remember a bus in the sixties that came around our streets. As a kid I was focused on the kangaroo lollipops and the sweets that were connected together with elastic. You had to chew them off the elastic.

 

[Reet]

1950s Mobile Greengrocer

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Credits: Facebook/Australia Remember When

Remember when the local greengrocer drove through the streets with a truck full of fresh produce? Back then, most households didn’t have a car, so this service was a lifeline for many. All the mums eagerly awaited the truck’s arrival and gathered around to snag their fresh supply of fruit and veggies. Do you have fond memories of the greengrocer? Share your stories in the forum.

I have never heard of a mobile greengrocer before. Is this something only found in Australia?

 

[Gsr]

In the mid 60s dad left the sawmill and we moved areas to share farm again. Every Friday we had the fruit and vegetable man call at our farm in his truck. He was known as the fruito. there was much excitement in school holidays when he came, he always had some lollies which he gave to the kids on his run. He used to give mum a few extra pieces of fruit and or vegies, think he felt sorry for us having so many kids and being poor. He lived in town and every day Monday to Friday he drove out to a different farming area to deliver fruit and vegies to farms and out of town customers. If you needed a few groceries you could ring him and he would pick them up and deliver them too. He used to get up about 3am 2 or 3 days a week and travel about 3 hours to the regional fruit market to stock up, how often he went depended on how much he sold each day. He was a lovely man, cared a lot about his customers, and became like a member of the family. He continued until he reached retirement age, he couldn’t get anyone else to take over, so the service ended. That was in the early 80s. He did this for over 40 years after he took over from his father.

 

[David Thackrah]

1950s Mobile Greengrocer

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Credits: Facebook/Australia Remember When

Remember when the local greengrocer drove through the streets with a truck full of fresh produce? Back then, most households didn’t have a car, so this service was a lifeline for many. All the mums eagerly awaited the truck’s arrival and gathered around to snag their fresh supply of fruit and veggies. Do you have fond memories of the greengrocer? Share your stories in the forum.

Our greengrocer came around with a horse drawn wagon with tarpaulin roof and an icebox at the rear end which was our big moment while Mum did not spend more than one pound for the week's vegatbles. It was 1944 and the war was ending so the soldiers were thinning out. But the river did flood sometime about then with the Main Street being 2 feet under water. Years later I learned we had an American "security" base at a nearby train siding.