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Of milk and men: Temple native recalls life in dairy business

The Gorden family’s 1941 Plymouth delivery truck is parked at Second Street and Central Avenue in downtown Temple. Like many families in Temple, the Gordens ran a dairy business. “Everybody that had more than one cow had a dairy,” said Bill Gorden. (Courtesy of Bill Gorden)
More than a half-century before celebrities such as Christie Brinkley and Muhammad Ali appeared wearing white moustaches in magazine ads, Temple had sprouted dozens of dairies that kept local hospitals, cafes and families supplied with fresh milk.

"At one time, there were 38 Grade A raw dairies in Temple - the Keaton Boys, the Champs, Krumnow, Doyle Cole, Wilburn Dairy, Waters Dairy and the Fowler Boys," said Bill Gorden, son of a Temple dairy pioneer. "Everybody that had more than one cow had a dairy."

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