Dairy Bottle, Truck, Separator Collectors Hold Convention
This is one of the displays at the joint convention of the National Association of Bot
tle Collectors, the Divco Club, and the Cream Separator Association. It’s the rarest off
the rare.
HERSHEY (Dauphin Co.)
Five-hundred (500) eager partici
pants attended the joint conven
tion of the National Association
of Milk Bottle Collectors
(NAMBC), the Divco Club of
America and the Cream Separa
tor Association which was the
first and largest gathering of
dairy related collectors ever to be
held. The event started the cele
bration of “June is Dairy Month”
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and was held on June 1, 2 and 3
at the Holiday Inn in Grantville.
Celebrating its 20th year,
NAMBC features numerous dis
plays, among them “The Histori
cal Cream of the Crop,” Borden
Company go-withs and a SO state
collection of milk bottles. In ad
dition to the displays, most of the
many participants’ rooms were
transformed into bottle shops
fostering a considerable amount
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of fellowship, buying, selling and
trading of milk bottles and other
dairy collectibles.
Featured also was a bus trip
to the famous Turkey Hill
Farms, home of Turkey Hill Ice
Cream, a visit from the Purple
Cow provided photo opportu
nities, and the annual auction
and banquet events. The Penn
sylvania Dairy Princess, Lori
Connley, was on hand to assist
the ice cream “scoopers” at the
Chambarsbui
“Sundae on Saturday” event. A
postal substation featuring a
special cachet of the event, de
signed by artist, Paul Martin,
and the sale of related merchan
dise including toy Divco trucks
were part of the program. A spe
cial commemorative milk bottle,
also designed by Mr. Martin, and
produced by the Stanpac Manu
facturing Company, represented
by Mr. Steve Witt, who also dis
played his Divco Truck, pro
vided individual club recognition
panels and were available to all
registrants. Numerous awards
were presented to respective club
attendees.
The largest display of Divco
trucks ever to be assembled,
some 28 trucks of varied years,
models and styles, provided
viewing of some of the finest ex
amples of a by-gone era. These
remarkable restorations, the
earliest being a 1925 model,
came from Canada, Florida and
points in between. Featured
among the club trucks was the
extraordinary “Milk Shaker,” a
stylized “hot rod.” Trucks from
most model years were present.
Conventioneers were treated to a
wonderful luncheon and a swap
One of the 30 Divco trucks on display at the collec
tor's convention. They came from as far away as Florida
and Canada.
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meet in a large tent shared by the
Cream separator organization.
An outdoor picnic was also held.
Numerous Cream Separator
Club displays of some most un
usual and rare pieces were exhib
ited. They hosted a swap meet as
well.
This was the nation’s largest
ever gathering of dairy and
Divco truck aficionados. The
event provided wonderful oppor
tunity for members of all three
organizations to reminisce and
share their experiences.
NAMBC organizers Tony
Knipp of Blooming Grove, Tom
Gallagher of Westport, Connecti
cut, Sam Stephens of Pennsylva
nia and Paul Dettloff D.U.M. of
Arcadia WI representing the
Cream Separator Association
along with Oliver Ogden of Silver
Spring, and Les Bagley of Kings
ton, Washington, organizing the
Divco Club of America, were all
extremely pleased with the out
come of what must be termed a
national happening.
Knipp, in reflection, said that
all the planning for two years re
ally paid off and “we had an
overwhelmingly successful
event.” A similar gathering is
contemplated for June 2001.