This list was compiled from the La Porte directories or phone books and includes milk depots, dairies, dairymen, milk dealers and ice cream manufacturers.
This page will also serve as a place to share photos of milk wagons, businesses, people, and dairy advertisements for operations that do not yet have known milk bottles with their names on them.
There may be bottles out there bearing only a business name and no town listed, so this directory-based list may help identify and document undiscovered bottles in the future.
1904 — Ice Cream Manufacturers
Swan Bros., 307 Harrison.
1907 — Ice Cream Manufacturers
House, James E., 708 Michigan Ave.; Phone 415.
Hygienic Milk & Ice Cream Co., Plain and Woodward.
1910 — Milk Depots
Hetherson C., 1107 Woodward — phone 520
Jordan J. H., 208 Division — phone 898
Lusby J. E., 1110 Clay
Maple Lane Dairy (Walter S. Replogle), Pine Lake Ave. — We are aware of an embossed bottle with Replogle’s name, but not one for Maple Lane Dairy.
Thomas Bros., 1534 Michigan Ave.
Loraine Confectionary Shop, 708 Michigan Ave. (Listed under Ice Cream Manufacturers)
1913 — Dairymen
Brodzinski Wm., Tecumseh & Henry (NE corner)
Closser L. F., A St. & 10th
1915
Bowes Michael E. Dairy, 910 Woodward.
1923 — Dairymen
Bowes Michael E., 910 Woodward
Ginther & Nelson, 108 Farrand
Schlosser Bros., 803 Jefferson Ave.
1924–30 — Dairies
Schlosser Bros., 803 Jefferson Ave.
1931–32 — Dairies / Milk Dealers
Rehlander Ocha, 116 Kingsbury Ave.
Zepik Emil, south side 15th St., east of A St.
Schlosser Bros. Cream Station, 805 Jefferson Ave.
1938 — No new entries
1940–41 — Dairies / Milk Dealers
Kindig C. M., south side 15th St., west of Farrand Ave.
Ludtke J. F., south side 15th St., west of Pere Marquette Railroad
Schlosser Bros. Cream Station, 604 Jackson St.
1943–44 — Dairies / Milk Dealers
Cloverleaf Creamery Inc., 508 Tipton
Ludtke J. F., south side 15th St., west of Pere Marquette Railroad
Schlosser Bros. Inc., 604 Jackson
1947
Milk Dealers: Reczuch Aloice, 508 Tipton; Sherman White Cream Station, 703 Lincolnway East
Dairy Bars: Starzyk Peter
1954
Dairy Bars: Longs Superior, 1512 5th St.; Starzyk Peter J., 333 Park St.
Milk Dealers: Sherman White Cream Station, 703 E. Lincolnway
1956 — Milk Dealers
Sherman White Cream Station, 703 Lincolnway East
1958
Dairy Bars: Starzyk Peter J., 333 Park St.
Dairy Products: Schrock Floyd W., 1412 Weller Ave.
Milk Dealers: Sherman White Cream Station, 703 Lincolnway East
1960 — Dairy Bars
Starzyk Peter J., 333 Park St.