It was Miller’s Dairy

MILLER DAIRY: OK. Help with more detail, please…. Was it WEST of Skyline Drive? Was the entrance (in the early 60’s) on the SOUTH side of MT VERNON? I seem to recall very nice landscaping at the entrance?

Does anyone recall the address? People talk about it in newspapers and blogs, BUT they don’t give a detailed location. With no sign of its existence today, that seems pretty important.

I lived in Lemon Grove from about age 6 (1951) to around age 16 (1961), then again in I believe the mid-to-late 70’s. Hilltop Drive, Adams Street, Massachusetts Avenue.

Hello Dave:

The dairy was on the south side of skyline. Bordered by one block before Dayton drive.

Used to live in That area when I was a kid. You can tell where it was by the housing track called Miller’s something.

Thanks for your attention,
S. Martinez

The main entrance to Miller’s dairy was right at the end of Hardy Drive. I lived on Hardy Drive as a kid and we would walk over to buy popsicles and ice cream bars from the big chest freezer in the center of the drivethrough area. There were 2 fiberglass cows on the grass strip between the deep U shape of the drive. A Holstein by Mt Vernon and a cartoony looking on halfway down. We would pick (steal) oranges, figs, and pomegranates from the Miller’s yard. Their house was to the East of the drivethrough entrance. The kids in the neighborhood could watch the cows being milked over a wall. The cows seemed to just line up to be milked. Over another wall I saw a calf being born. We would go see the lone bull named Curly in his separate pen. We would visit the baby calves and let them suck on our hands. I had a few pet cats that came from there. Looking back, I think the people at the dairy kind of indulged us kids. The only thing they absolutely did not tolerate was playing on the hay bale stacks. We got ran off a few times for that, but it WAS probably dangerous! I was 11 years old when we moved to El Cajon in 1972. My family continued to have Miller dairy milk delivered till the day they closed. Needless to say I have fond memories.

Anyone remember Doris Kramer. Her father was a dairy farmer in the San Diego area in the 1940s.

Sorry to inform you that My cousin Pete Ferrari never bought out my great grandfather Tranquillo Guglielmetti`s place. When the city condemned the Guglielmetti dairy for the stadium it made the remaining 7 siblings very angry and hurt. Their mother would have never given up the dairy that they had built up over the years.

https://challengedairy.com/

There was a Challenge Dairy on the south side of highway 8, which was highway 80 back in early 1950’s. Think it was approximately opposite where the old May company was (looks like Westfield now), maybe near Hine Mazda. Next to the dairy was a real baseball diamond complete with dugouts, called Challenge Park where sponsored teams played ball with proper uniforms.

Was reminiscing with the wife about playing pro ball as a kid, next to a dairy and that prompted an internet search where I stumbled onto this site. Wish I had photos of the ball park and dairy back then.

Well that was over sixty years ago and I was blown away finding that Challenge still exist in some form with the very SAME logo on the butter pack! Amazing. Cheers from Australia.

https://challengedairy.com/

My brother and I had our pictures taken holding full Golden Arrow Dairy Milk
Bottles.

I delivered milk for Dairy Mart Farms. I think I was route 83.
I delivered all of Rosecrans Street, NTC and Point Loma I delivered until Uncle Sam wanted to draft me. I had to quit my route in 1965. I join the Air Force and was in Viet Nam and Thailand 9 months later. Dairy Mart Farms took total advantage of me. They kept ALL the money I had saved as I was purchasing my milk truck. It was a 1960 Divco. They also made me repaint it because my name was on the side of the truck. They also kept ALL of my truck payments. I was 18 years old when I bought the route and truck. I was their youngest milkman. They totally screwed me!!