Market Friday Gulf Hill Dairy - The Bucket
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This is the one tag and challenge that I always make a point of joining, and also look through the posts of others that join the challenge and seeing markets from all around the world.
For this weeks post, I am sharing some shots of the Gulf Hill dairy Ice cream stand, called the bucket.
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It has been around since at least the 1940s and was originally used as the Gulf Hill Dairy ice cream stand.
the bucket was beside the old Gulf Hill Dairy. They had a glass front on the milking building, and you could watch the cows getting milked. They then moved it across the street, on the grounds of a restaurant the dairy built and opened. The restaurant eventually closed, and after a long vacancy a museum moved in. The museum passed the main building on to another organization, and the bucket was moved down the hill to the Apponogansett town beach, which is where it is now.
I didn't know about it I was heading to check out one of the trails, and spotted this and decided to stop and get a few shots of it.
These shots are from two visits there, one day with blue skies and another visit earlier one morning with some nice end of sunrise colors in the sky.
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Some info I found at this source
Gulf Hill Dairy was started back in 1896, when a young farmer named Joseph T. Fernandes decided to enter into the dairy business. This man of vision plotted the course and guided the destiny of Gulf Hill Dairy for fifty-two years.
From a one man, one horse and wagon beginning, Gulf Hill Dairy developed into one of New England's most modern, most successful dairy operations.
1946 was a most important year in the history of the Dairy. In that year, the Gulf Hill Dairy introduced homogenized milk in South Eastern Massachusetts.
1962 was another important year in the Dairy's progress. Gulf Hill Dairy was the first in Massachusetts with multi-vitamin milk.
Modernizing the plant, fleet and offices with the newest equipment in the field was always a priority.
On June 26, 1965, another milestone was reached with the opening of Gulf Hill Parlor, an exceptional ice cream parlor and restaurant on Gulf Road in South Dartmouth.
The Milking Showroom was located across the street from the Milk Processing Plant on Gulf Road. Here families enjoyed watching the milking of the cows every afternoon at 4 PM.
The Dairy was sold in 1980 and the restaurant closed in 1981.
"You can whip our cream, but you can't beat our milk"
However the bucket still opens in summer from what I understand
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I like how the sign for ordering and pickup, looks hand painted and not stylish printed signs
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It has a nice covered spot where one can sit and enjoy the ice-cream
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and from another angle, its a beautiful spot beside a beach
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the ordering and pickup windows on my second visit there
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and from the back of the Bucket, near to a beach and a boat ramp looking back at the Bucket
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And that’s all folks
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