The Milk Bars Book. Volume II: A Sweet History
In the follow-up to Eamon Donnelly's sold-out, out-of-print first title from 2018, The Milk Bars Book. Volume II: A Sweet History goes beyond the closed shopfronts and back to where it all began. Documenting over a century of sweet memories, archival photography, advertising, packaging, signage, stories, and history, the book is split into chapters for each decade — from 1900 to now. Volume 2 is a 356-page celebration of family, food, community, advertising, and childhood memory - a visual feast chronicling what we used to have and what has slowly faded away.
Specifications:
4 cover colours: Milk [White], Raspberry Spider [Neon Pink], Orange Fizz [Neon Orange], Lemon Sherbet [Neon Yellow]
ISBN: 978-0-646-86236-1
Published: December 2023
Size: 300mm x 240mm x 35mm / 11.8 x 9.4 x 1.3 inches portrait
Pages: 356pp
Number of Illustrations: 426
Format: Hardcover
Head and tail bands: White
End papers: Fluorescent orange
Packaged in a clamshell collectable cardboard box
Includes an autographed card from the author
Shop The Milk Bars Book
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The Milk Bars Book: Milkshakes, Memories & Mixed Lollies [2018]Sold Out
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Shop Prints
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Dee Bee's Deli, 456 Lane Street, Broken Hill, NSWfrom $400.00 AUD
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Mixed Biz, 63 Gold Street, Collingwood, Victoriafrom $400.00 AUD
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Lights of Delightsfrom $400.00 AUD
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Glen Waverley, Victoriafrom $400.00 AUD
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The Rio Milk Bar, 126 Smith Street, Summer Hill, NSWfrom $400.00 AUD
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Dinah Parade, Keilor East, Victoriafrom $400.00 AUD
News
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Read more: "The shop around the corner" — Feature in The Australian Women's Weekly, February 2025
"The shop around the corner" — Feature in The Australian Women's Weekly, February 2025
Genevieve Gannon writes about The Milk Bars Book in the February issue of The Australian Women's Weekly, pages 54 — 59.Read more -
Read more: 2024 Christmas Delivery Dates
2024 Christmas Delivery Dates
To ensure your order arrives in time for Christmas, please place your order by the following dates:Standard Shipping (within Australia via Parcel P...Read more -
Read more: Hop into the Sweet History of Freddo Frog!🍫🐸
Hop into the Sweet History of Freddo Frog!🍫🐸
Chapter Extracts, pages 80 to 84, 1930 — 1939: The Birth of “Freddo”: "The famed frog is spawned around 1930, when Macpherson Robertson is toying w...Read more
Testimonials
“The Milk Bars Book Volume II is a confectionery, literature masterpiece, which will take you back, to a world of pure Milk Bar imagination, the past is brought back to the present, and all your childhood forgotten memories will come flooding in, just like the soda fountains of yesteryear!”
"There is so much work that has gone into compiling this publication, and we just want to say a very big thank you for all the hard work and effort you put into every page. We especially love the opening line of, "I'll have one of those, and one of those,...umm" Perfect! . . . We can't thank you enough for your beautiful book that we are now proudly displaying on our bookshelf."
"I received the book yesterday . . . It is GORGEOUS! The Lemon Sherbet cover is eye-catching and spectacular. The layout and content are lovely; artistic and tastefully put together, it is a joy to handle. Historically rich and I especially enjoy the old ice cream and lolly picture ads that I fondly remember from my childhood every time I walked into those wonderful establishments."
"Just received the fabulous book and it looks amazing. You have documented a very unique part of Australian history, which really formed a significant urban and rural visual landscape, and shaped many of my earliest memories of my childhood in the 1970’s. Thank you for such a valuable work."