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Does anyone remember Javelle Water?

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angelfj1

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Talk about dating myself - the Javelle water man would come about once a month and drop off a couple of gallons and pick up the empties. Do you remember???

Hint: made your sheets nice and white.
 
Dale might remember, but he's thinking of other things at this time!

Ah, Javelle water. Basically liquid bleach, a solution of sodium or potassium hypochlorite and water. It was originally made near the French town of Javelle (now part of Paris. Now, when I was a kid growing up outside of Phila. everyone (in my neighborhood) bought their bleach from the Javelle water man. I think this was most common in the NE USA.

Let's see, you had a bread man, a milkman a mailman and a Javelle water man.

Sometimes the milkman would leave a quart of chocolate milk for free just as a teaser. Boy, that wouldn't last long. But the milkman stopped more than once a week. I think we drank more milk back then. You know, the kind with the cream at the top.

I almost forgot. The mailman delivered the mail two times a day. Did we really make progress?
 
I remember living in Bayside, NY in the early fifties when the <span style="font-weight: bold">iceman</span> made daily deliveries with blocks of ice for the icebox! :laugh: I still occasionaly call the refrigerator the icebox.
 
My Italian grandmother always called the refrigerator "the Frigidaire", even though it was a GE. Funny how brand recognition was common even then, ala Kleenex, Xerox, etc.
 
It's really spelled "Javel", and "eau de Javel" is still a commonly used name for bleach in France. There's a Metro station in Paris named Javel-Andre Citroen, if you want a car connection!
 
Don't forget the laundry man and the bread man.
 
what? no one had an ice cream man? we had "tom" white suit bow tie and hat, he had that clean white outfit on till the day he retired, nice guy treated all the kids like his own.
 
Wow! You guys are really old! (wait a minute, I remember most of the stuff, too!)
 
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