Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1716
The Gushee Dairy question is still getting responses. Dan Jenkins has lots of info about the family and believes they had a dairy operation on Hillside Street in Milton as well as on Fuller Street, Dorchester. He provided today’s illustration–a photo of a Gushee Milk Bottle that sold on eBay. It is a cream separating baby face type. A separating spoon device closed the small opening in the neck so the cream on top could be poured off. I have added a close-up of a baby-top from a Cosgrove milk bottle from another Dorchester dairy.
Charlie O’Hara says: In regards to the Gushee Farm Dairy February 1 & 3 Illustrations # 1712 & 1714, one of the Gushee family homes still stands and is a small Victorian house at 104 Fuller Street. It is the 3rd house just west of the foot path that leads from Fuller Street into the Woodrow Wilson School yard. The first two houses are 3 families [at nos. 98 and 102] and then the 3rd one is the Gushee’s.
Just east of the foot path stand two small 1950–1960 Cape houses # 90 & 94 where the barn and bottling plant were located. As a boy attending the Woodrow Wilson School in the early 1940’s I, along with other students, would stop at the barn, which was always open and we would feed the horses our lunch apples. It was a small operation with only two or three milk delivery wagons of the kind with small truck wheels and rubber tires similar to those used by the Hood and Whiting milk companies. Part of the pasture land remained until WW II when the newer single family houses were built on it South of Fuller Street and West of the dead end Mercier Avenue and Hurlcroft Avenue and extending to the Boston Home property.
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