Tuesday, January 26, 2010

got knives?



When I was a kid (waaay back in the mid-20th
century), there was a guy who came around our
neighborhood in a truck just like this one, and
all the moms would go out with their knives and
scissors to get them sharpened. I really thought
this kind of business no longer existed anywhere
in NYC—but apparently I was wrong! 
 Is there anything like this where you are?

[See more of That's My World Tuesday here.]

4 comments:

  1. Some local cutlery shops in Seattle offer sharpening. I've never seen a mobile operation here, though. I did see a knife sharpener working on the sidewalk in NYC Chinatown, however.

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  2. Nope, not exactly, but we still have some really specialized stores. Check my blog this Wednesday to see one!

    When I was a kid, also mid-20th, we had an 'egg man' and a 'meat man,' who came around in vans to sell just that. Ding, ding, and we'd run out.

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  3. We had in the mid-20th Helm’s Bakery trucks. Oh, the fragrance when they opened these drawers.

    Milk man, ice cream truck, mobile pest exterminators.

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