Pomona Creamery. another Historic Landmark we could of saved, but nobody cared to save it.

  

We will continue to lose our historic building under the leadership we have today. So I suggest to you, take a good look at we have today. Because just like the Masonic Lodge they will be

gone before you know it. Because the people we trust to protect our landmarks, just don't care.

Here is my collection of Pomona Creamery Milk Bottles.

These are milk bottles from the old Pomona Creamery, 

The Pomona Valley Creamery was the first creamery in the Pomona Valley, established in 1912. The creamery used milk from local farms to create the dairy products they delivered to Pomona, Claremont, and Chino residents by horse and buggy.

In 1956, having outgrown the Pomona location, the creamery moved to a new facility on Mission Blvd in present day Montclair. According to Edwin Hanney, who worked there in the 50s and 60s, the infamous Santa Ana winds occasionally blew out the windows! The creamery now had its own cows, whose milk was pumped into storage tanks inside the creamery. The Pomona building later became part of the Western University campus, but was demolished in 2006. It was one of only four buildings in Pomona built in this concrete block style.

In those times, milk and other products were often delivered right to customers’ homes. Did you know some families even gave the milkmen keys to their homes to let themselves in?