Richard Jordan - Documentary
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General) North American (US General American - GenAM) North American (US West Coast - California, Portland)Transcript
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milk is typically the first thing you taste in life. American families have been nurtured by it for generations. These days, there are all kinds of milk. Goats, milk, soy milk, rice. No, but for a long time, there was just one product in nearly every household refrigerator. Fresh cow's milk. Thompson's dairy was one of the first to pasteurized milk. You might think it happened out on a rural farm in the Midwest Place, like Wisconsin, Iowa or Oklahoma, but not Thompson's dairy. Nope. Thompson's dairy was in Washington, D. C. The nation's capital was the birthplace of a wholesome, longstanding but ultimately troubled institution. Back in 18 81 farmer John S. Thompson started producing milk. The production was out in the suburbs, but Thompson found himself having a hard time finding a distributor to get the fruits of his labor in the hands and mouths of customers. So what did he do? Like most business owners set on getting ahead, he started making the deliveries himself. Well, not all by himself. Thompson started with a horse and wagon. It was a reliable mode of transportation at the time, but it did have its challenges. You see the horse was partially blind. In the beginning, Thompson started off delivering 10 gallons of milk a day. That may not sound like much today, but demand picked up quickly and the dairy production and distribution expanded. Thompson opened up a processing plant. Theo carriages would line up outside every morning to get loaded with the day's deliveries that work for a while. But like all things, the milk industry evolved. The horses and carriages were retired, and before long Thompson's dairy had 200 delivery trucks and 500 employees. The company was growing, but it still remained an independent family business. Then, in 18 98 just 17 years after he started his milk production business, John S. Thompson died on accident involving a runaway horse killed him. Thompson's three sisters stepped up to run the dairy. In 1917 his nephew began working there. Eventually he took over, and he became the dairies. President Thompson's dairy had 50,000 homes and businesses throughout the Washington D. C area, receiving their products almost every day. The White House was even on the delivery route. Business was going so well, it was time to move into a new, larger facility in 1927 45 years. After that, one man, one horse smoke delivery operation started. Thompson's took over on entire city block. The new location was prime real estate in the heart of Washington D. C's Entertainment District, Theo U Street Corridor, a strip that became known as black Broadway, anchored by the Lincoln Theater, where Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington all performed.
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